Aunt Christina's Visit to Split
Photos taken May 15, 2010 - May 17, 2010

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Left to right: Jay, Kelly, Kelly's Aunt Christina, her aunt's friend Jean.
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Inside the Diocletian Palace basement (Podrum).
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Inside the Diocletian Palace basement (Podrum).
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Sculpture of Diocletian
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The basement has open-air areas
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The Peristile square, Luxor cafe on the left.
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The Peristile square.
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Sveti Duje cathedral tower.
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Old brickwork in the palace. The basement is below.
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Mestrovic's sculpture of the Bishop. Rub his big toe for good luck!
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Fountain with drinking water, in the palace - in 300AD, water flowed to here from an aqueduct many miles away.
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Near the Iron Gate in the Diocletian Palace.
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acapella singers inside Jupiter's Temple / the baptistry. Jupiter's Temple was a pagan worship room, was turned into a baptistry (room for baptisms) by the catholics.
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Back in the basement, they were having a market of sorts -- lots of cheese wheels here!
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The Riva.
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Jean, Christina and Kelly
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Christina, the next ruler of Split?
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Kelly and Christina.
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Jean, Jay and Kelly in front of the model of Split's old town.
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After living in Split for more than a year, we finally climbed the Sveti Duje cathedral - awesome views.
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Atop the Sveti Duje cathedral.
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Atop the Sveti Duje cathedral. You can see the palace walls which visitors will hopefully be able to walk atop in the next few years, and the port.
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Atop the Sveti Duje cathedral.
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Atop the Sveti Duje cathedral.
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Atop the Sveti Duje cathedral.
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This photo doesn't show it, but this aluminum staircase was a bit rickety, and VERY wide open. It seemed too easy to slip out!
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Atop the Sveti Duje cathedral.
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Atop the Sveti Duje cathedral.
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Atop the Sveti Duje cathedral. You can see one tower of the original fortress in the front, and Marjan Park in the back.
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Atop the Sveti Duje cathedral.
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One of the bells in the tower.
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Atop the Sveti Duje cathedral.
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Atop the Sveti Duje cathedral.
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Kelly descending back to solid ground.
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One of the bells in the tower.
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We stopped by the flower market.
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Trg Republic.
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The banner above the entrance to the Diocletian Palace basement.
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Svete Frane church with flowers.
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Christina and Jay thinking about going for a swim at Bene beach. Not really, it was only about 60 degrees outside!
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Looking towards Split from Vidilica cafe.
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At Vidilice cafe viewpoint.
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Inside the fish market!
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Inside the fish market - squid!! No, I haven't eaten any.
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Kelly + Umbrella at the port, before we boarded a Jadrolinija Ferry to the island of Brac.
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Jay and Christina on the ferry.
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Christina and Jean on the ferry
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It was cool and windy on the top deck.
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The town of Supetar on Brac
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Supetar's cemetery, right by the sea.
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A tree growing through an old church roof, on Brac.
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We drove on a crazy gravel road alongside dozens of not-so-healthy looking sheep.
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More sheep.
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Here's our crazy gravel road -- we drove on this for about 25 minutes. Didn't go more than 15mph because it was very bumpy and full of mud/water-filled potholes
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Like these.
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The road did give us a sea view.
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The road took us to the entry point to our hike to the Hermitage Blaca Museum - a monastery built hundreds of years ago by monks fleeing the Turks.
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Of course, the museum is closed for renovation. Even though we took a photo of the sign, we didn't realize this and embarked on our 2km hike anyway.
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Hiking to the hermitage, past some old stone houses
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Christina posing by our "CLOSED FOR RENOVATION" message...
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Hiking to the hermitage.
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Hiking to the hermitage.
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Hiking to the hermitage.
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A gravestone and a cross at a lookout point close to the hermitage.
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The view from the hermitage
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Resting at our midway point.
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Resting at our midway point.
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Hiking to the hermitage
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We made it!
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Kelly ringing the bell to get someone to answer -- nobody came.
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The entrance to the Hermitage Blaca museum.
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Jean and Christina at the entrance to the museum
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Kelly and Jay at a picturesque spot.
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Jay falling to his death.
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Jay is gone.
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He's alive!
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You can see some of the hermitage here.
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Kelly, Christina and Jay
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Jean
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Christina
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We drove to the highest point of the island overlooking Zlatni Rat beach in Bol.
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Looking out towards Hvar
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At a rock quarry - Brac is famous for its marble.
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Rock quarry.
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Driving around the island we passed several fun towns. We stopped and took some photos at this one.
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Cialis's next commercial location?
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Driving through another town, this one on the sea.
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On the ferry back home to Split.
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At Jugo for dinner
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Kelly, Christina and Paula went to Krka National Park to see the water falls. They caught a ferry ride to the entrance.
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Paula, Chrstina, Kelly (and their new friend?) aboard the ferry to Krka.
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Krka's main waterfall - amazing how different it was only one week after we visited with Kelly's family.
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Chrstina, Paula and Kelly
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Kelly and Paula
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Krka
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Krka
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Krka
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Krka
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Krka
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Krka
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Krka
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Krka
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Krka
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Krka
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Krka
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