Some travel advice please

My wife and I are planning a holiday in Croatia in 2010 and I cannot work out whether to focus on Porec or Split etc? We are likely to go for Porec re accom but does anyone know how easy it is to get down to Split (bus?).

I haven't done it by bus but I self drove some years ago and the E65 road from Split through Sibenik up to Rijeka isn't that fast - and then you still have to get Porec- Rijeka which I don't know at all. Also there are a lot of great places on the route (Trogir, Sibenik, Zadar etc) so it deserves having some time taken over it.
This site says that just Split - Rijeka by bus is 8 hours which I can fully believe.
http://www.croatiatraveller.com/central%20dalmatia/Split/Buses.htm

I guess it all depends on what sort of holiday you want - if it is primarily sightseeing then I would have thought that the Split area must be used as the centre.

There's a Highway (1) going to Split. It also passes by Plitvice National Parc. I would recommend the south much more than Porec

If time is not a problem for you, here is an alternative suggestion: takes ferries and have stops in some islands. Of course this also needs taking some busses between ports, which is time-consuming. But you will get a more country-in-depth understanding than through the road.
http://jsilvamaia.blogspot.com

I think there's croatia airline bus that goes and meet regular flights to Split.

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