A bit of pizza and sweating later we swapped drivers and Ben drove almost to Split, along some amazing coastlines. Talk about scenic. Joanna didn't sleep through too much of it (and she deserves her afternoon naps). And besides, there's over 1000 islands, the odd one missed won't be noticed... Our campsite coincided with a UNESCO site just north of Split at a place called Trogir. We've since discovered virtually everything here is a UNESCO site...
We set up camp in the mad heat and went for a swim on the beach at the campsite. Lovely. Although the water had a bit much floating vegetation, and Ben had just got paranoid about sea-urchins after reading the Lonely Planet, so sandals got a bit wet.
Next day we made it into Trogir, and started investigating what made it UNESCO worthy. Except it was 40C. Seriously. We were hoping for sea breezes, but there was nothing. We have since spotted a cloud in Croatia today, but it was very small. Apparently it's over 40 days since it last rained here.
So much sweating was done, but we discovered Trogir is an island (we'd walked over the bridge and wandered about a bit before we realised), settled by the Greeks, but made famous by the Romans for its marble & marble artisans. They've kept at it, so there's great buildings from the 9th-19th centuries still in good shape.
Anyway, dead pretty, here's a couple of pics of the marble stuff:
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