The final day of our holiday involved travelling from Dubrovnik to Split by bus. Our flight back home was at 1pm on Saturday from Split Airport and, because the travel time between Split and Dubrovnik is about 4.5 hours on the bus, we would have struggled to get to the airport the required two hours before our flight if we had stayed an extra night in Dubrovnik. We were sad to leave though, particularly because as soon as we woke up we noticed that it was the first time all week that there wasn't an enormous cruise ship sitting in the port. The journey back to Split was spectacular though, with the main road following the coast for almost the entire route. There was a great view out across the Adriatic and the experience was enlivened by the New Zealand couple sitting behind us, who were engaged in a constant dispute about which islands we were able to see. The husband was particularly excited when he got a glimpse of the island of "Mill-jet", more commonly known as Mljet (pronounced "mlyet" - all one syllable)!
We arrived in Split aroun 3.30 and our first task was to locate the apartment where we would be staying for the night. This turned out to be more difficult than I had anticipated when I booked an apartment a mere 900m from the main bus station. Using a Google map, we navigated to number 23 on a particular street without much difficulty; this was the location at which Google had marked the apartment but, when we arrived there, there were no signs on the door indicating that this was the correct place. A panicked consultation of the booking confirmation revealed that the apartment was actually located at number 7 on the same road... but when we wheeled our suitcases back down a very steep hill to number 7, it transpired that this was actually the address of a travel agent through which (unbeknown to us!) we were renting the apartment. We had to wait there for a few minutes while they called the actual owner of the apartment and she came to fetch us. Fortunately, the apartment was only a five minute walk away and when we eventually got there it was very clean and pleasant, but checking in did feel like it had been an unnecessary rigmarole.
With a few hours of daylight left, we headed out almost straight away to explore Split. Split definitely hadn't been our favourite place in Croatia when we stayed there for a few nights last summer, but some parts of the old town, which is built within the ruins of the Emperor Diocletian's Palace, are extremely pretty.
After wandering round the city centre for a bit, we headed out of town along the promenade, or Riva, which runs along the entire length of the sea front. There was a new section of promenade that had been under construction when we were here last year and when we reached the end of it and turned around we had a fantastic view back towards Split.
There was just time for a final stroll under the palm trees before darkness fell and it was time to head inside for food. We went to an Italian restaurant which we remembered eating at last year, only to end up with a large jug of the only horrible wine we had encounted during any of our three holidays this year! We can't complain though - we have really had a wonderful couple of weeks in Croatia and Montenegro 
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