Welcome to Croatia! We arrived on-time, at 6.00, in Split. Passport controls were much more efficient this time, and within minutes we were cycling toward the old part of town and right into a market where the people where busy putting the finishing touches on their stalls with fruits, flowers, and vegetables.
We bought some very delicious figs for later, and then walked further into the historical center, getting lost on the way to a hipster coffee bar. Properly caffeinated and somewhat caught up on the string of breaking news from the US capitol, we embarked on our short cycling tour going south along the coast.
The 8-Road was rather busy as it is the main connection to all the tourist places along the coast. We got passed by cars from Germany, Slovenia, Bosnia, Poland, Hungary, and even one from Zurich. The Adriatic that was sometimes close, and sometimes quite a lot further down, looked beautiful with clear, turquoise waters and the rocky shoreline.
The mountain range that is more or less hugging the coast made us do a few climbs here and there, but nothing major. We didn’t stop along the way and arrived just shy of 11.00 in Mimice, where we could, thankfully, do an early checkin. While Liz went straight to nap mode, I went for a quick swim in the clear, refreshing sea. We will spend some time in the afternoon to book more accommodation and route plan; at the moment, the plan is to go further south along the coast until we reach Montenegro or even Albania.
Total distance/elevation to date: 4243km/33’481m
Rest days: 14
Route and Stats
Relive Video
The 1948 Tour 
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