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I feel I owe Split to write a few words.<br />I had really been looking forward to staying here and I had heard that there where good options for a cheap room in private accomondation.<br />I am amazed by the beauty of Croatia's next largest city. It surely deserves to be on the UNESCO-list. The inner city with Diocletian's Palace is remarkable.
Beautiful and Sad
Anna Sofie Andersen2006-03-16 19:59:38
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I feel I owe Split to write a few words.
I had really been looking forward to staying here and I had heard that there where good options for a cheap room in private accomondation.
I am amazed by the beauty of Croatia's next largest city. It surely deserves to be on the UNESCO-list. The inner city with Diocletian's Palace is remarkable.
But still I feel sad about being here. Some might have to do with the fact that most of the inner city is being renovated. You can't even view the golden gate and the palace is also covered with wood and plastic. But it also and maybe even more relate to all the poor people you meet. Only few are begging for money and for the blind eye it can therefor seem as a rich city, but if you take an extra look you will first discover the dusins of women at the busstation screaming zimmer, camre, sobe, rooms and you will see how tired they are. Some of them are smeeling badly, some of them are sitting down looking like they could sleep for a week.
First as I exited the bus several women where already showing there signs and pictures. I almost got run down. I decided after several conciderations about my agreement with a youth hostel in the area to stay with one woman who was a little younger than the rest and nicer dressed and more clean in her appearence. After now living in her place for two nights I feel lucky that it is not me who has to stand almost begging people to follow me. She arrives at the busstation to catch the first bus. She stands there all day in 35 degrees C untill the last bus, unless she is lucky and can get some people. Then she decides to after showing them the house to go home to herself and get some food and then a while relaxing on the beach untill she starts again, attracting peoples attention. And she is lucky, because she is younger and more fit in english she has better chances of catching peoples interest, whereas some of the others stand there for days hoping for a bit
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