My Travel Adventures

There were a few things we did not get to see yesterday in Split due to our late arrival. After buying our breakfast from a local bakery, therefore, we made a visit to Saint Domnius Cathedral. A service had just ended there, and the lights were being turned off as we walked in, but at least we had a moment to enjoy the sacred space all by ourselves. An interesting feature of the exterior is that at the foot of the western gate stand two lions, one of them trampling a lamb. I am not quite sure what that is meant to evoke but it seems perverse.   

Yang and I both woke up before our alarms, which came in quite handy as today was a busy day. After buying breakfast at a nearby corner store, we checked out of our hostel and left Zagreb. Our first destination was Lake Bled in Slovenia, which is about two hours away from Zagreb on a good day – and one and a half times longer when one has the misfortune to get stuck in traffic on the way past Ljubljana. We also took some time to stop at a gas station after crossing the Slovenian border to buy a highway pass (it turned out we could have just done this online).