What did the Romans do for us?

Koper in Slavenia and Split in Croatia probably had the most interesting architecture. The similarities were very strong, and the old towns had managed to hold onto their Byzantine past. Split indeed is a UNESCO World heritage site, but the walk to the Cathedral in Koper was probably the highlight. Here are a few pictures which caught the eye during the week.

Emperor Clementines Palace in Split

The Cathederal in Koper

Emperor Clementine

Garibaldi, the biscuit man, and a rare holiday snap!!

Game of Thrones

 SWMBO and I are in the Adriatic on a cruise around Croatia, Slovenia and Italy. Many of the towns and cities were used in the filming of titled TV series but as we have never watched it, it all passed us by!!

The first and biggest city was Dubrovnic but sadly due to flight and luggage delays we arrived too late to look round. We next went to Rijeka, a port town which was fun. It had underground tunnels which were built as defences during the Second World War as Russia looked to liberate Croatia from Italian advances. It did give a feeling of how things must have been in Mariupol during the recent siege in Ukraine.

It did also have a certain resemblance to the cruise ship accommodation which was to be our home for the next few days!

Ravenna the port city for Venica had limited appeal and we were there only because we could not face the 3 hour trip to .Venice. Koper in Slovenia and Ancona in Italy were a couple of church fest locations both being very Roman in their influencing architecture.

 We are now on our way to Split where I will update the tour details and add some more pictures. Oh did I fail to mention the ship has a golf simulator? I was pushed out of first place in the nearest the pin competition by a flukey thined 7 iron!!