Mostar to Split
Our apartment guy, Harris, took us to the bus station which was really kind. He didn’t want to take any money so we insisted he took it and used it for nappies for his 5 day old twin boys.
Stood for a while chatting about history and politics.
Most of Mostar was flattened during the war and the EU gave money for rebuilding which is why we hadn’t noticed much shell damage.
Such an interesting man and a shame we didn’t get the chance to chat more.
Our bus left Mostar East at 11.20 am, ticket was £12 each and 1 euro fee each for our luggage.
Lovely scenery, very green and mountains around us, very similar to Turkey with a mix of villages and commercial buildings along the way.
Almost all the houses have Intex large paddling pools and a few had normal swimming pools.
At 12.15 we pulled into another bus station and assumed most people were getting off for a ciggy.
Asked someone and we had to change buses for Split
Bit of a rush but all fine and they moved our cases for us, glad were getting our moneys worth!
At 12.30 we stopped again.
Have just handed over our passports and we’re currently sitting at the border.
It’s very hot and a bit claustrophobic as I’ve copped a very large lady in front of me who has put her seat right back and is almost sitting in my lap.
Could be worse, they could all be smoking a million fags 🙂
I’ve been watching the first episode (I downloaded on iPlayer) of the new Great British Bake Off series, its cake week and I’m drooling and glad I bought a bar of Milka Noisette flavour for the journey.
At 12.55 we were off again and passports given back by other passengers.
The scenery is beautiful, lovely lakes and by 1.30 we were going around bendy roads and saw the sea.
Have really missed being by the sea.
Its much like the Kas -Kalkan road, but 80km instead of 8km.
John is struggling and feeling sick.
The large lady later got off but can’t work out how to put her seat back up 😦
The bendy coast road went on for well over an hour with a couple of gorgeous little resorts in the distance.
A short stop in a town with tiny streets and then back onto the coast road.
John is still feeling really rough.
Arrived at Split bus station just after 4pm.
John literally looked green.
Stopped to get Kuna from the ATM and for drinks and then decided to walk to our apartment partly as had been sitting all day but mostly because taxi driver quoted more than we were told to pay.
He said it was because of the luggage!
Walk was less than half an hour but pretty hilly, and very hot, but good to get some air.
Our apartment, called An &Dy, is OK.
The outside space and furniture wasn’t shown on the website and is pretty poor!
There’s a supermarket really close by and we couldn’t face going into town as feeling exhausted.
There’s a very basic kitchen so decided to cook and bought pork chops and steaks, mushrooms and onion.
Very tasty and a welcome change from sausages and pizza.
There’s an airer so we did our laundry as first opportunity since we started our travels.
Looking forward to exploring Split tomorrow. What we saw briefly looked wonderful but for now its chill time and we have 2 full days to visit the town and maybe even the beach.
Observations so far :
John needs to put his travel sick pills in his backpack not in his suitcase
The supermarket has a lot more choice than the ones in Bosnia.
There’s a Lidl
No sign of any war damage as far as we’ve seen so far.
Everything is slightly dearer than Bosnia but feels more affluent.
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