Heading south, into Split, Croatia

As we continued south, the roads cleared and the snow stopped (but the wind picked up) and the sun came out just about the same time as we got our first glimpse of the sea:

As luck would have it, we were crossing over the Sibenik Bridge just at sunset.  There is a pullover on the southside of the bridge.  We braved the winds (70 kph) and cold (actually colder than the snowy areas had been) and got out to snap some photos:

Once again, Rio's photos were better (I think this will be the case from now on):

See that little village on the far side of the bridge?

Rio's camera has quite a good zoom--he got to try it out photographing that little village.

The rest of the drive was uneventful, other than increasingly high winds and we were checked into our side by side rooms at the Radisson Blu by dinner time.  I never did take any photos of the room, not sure why.  But every room is focused OUT, with outside walls being floor to ceiling glass and the bed and desk arranged to look towards them.  By morning we could see that even our less expensive "mountain view" rooms (as opposed to "sea view") had both a view of the sea, and a lovely view in general.  I loved those mountains dipping down into the Adriatic.  

--Hadley