Split
We spent our last day in Croatia in Split. In the evening we would take the boat to Italy. It's been a long time since the last time I was in Split, I forgot how beautiful the city is! It was also the first cloudy and rainy day, which we didn't mind very much since we spent the day walking around in the old part of town.
While waiting for the boat, we sat in this cafe/restaurant/club in the port and enjoyed some delicious cake.
Then it was time to board the boat with a bunch of Italians.
To the right you see our door... First impressions were not the best. Our cabin was at the bottom, underneath two car decks, and to get to it we had to go through a maze of cabin aisles that made Viking Line and Tallink seem like luxury boats in comparison. We also got lost in the maze at one point and took an elevator that got stuck(!) between two decks. I began to hyperventilate before we managed to open the door and jump down to the floor. But the best thing was when my boyfriend, before we went to sleep, said "Remember that accident in Italy not long ago, when the boat tipped over and the captain fled?"
... Otherwise, it was okay!
As I fought for this picture! I just clicked and clicked until I captured the lightning. It was not the ultimate weather for a boat trip, but we were glad to leave the storm behind us. Talk about leaving in the right time.
We explored the boat a little and spent the rest of the evening in the casino before we went to sleep. Lucky that we slept through almost the whole trip, in the morning we noticed how much the boat rocked. My first thought when I woke up was that we were seriously about to tip over.
We were so lucky that the boat arrived a half hour earlier to Ancona, the train to Rome was leaving 8.25 and the next wouldn't leave until two o'clock (I checked all the details online before, so worth it). We fought to be among the first to get off the boat and threw ourselves into the first taxi and yelled "TO THE TRAIN STATION". After much running we made it to the train at the last second. It felt like being in Amazing Race, especially after our high five, haha. We basically got an extra day in Rome because of that!
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