Blogs from Zagreb, Central Croatia, Croatia, Europe

The train journey from Kelenföld to Zagreb was just neverending. I got too distracted reminiscing about my would-be epic fail visit to Komárno/om which never happened in my last entry to explain why I was even going via Budapest to later retrace my steps - people who know me will know this isn't like me at all. I had been held up by missing one connection and my original plan to go via Győr and Szombathely, getting there in 6 hours from Komárom, was voided. So I ended up taking an hour and half journey to Kelenföld, waiting in that café bar for two, then sitting on this dying piece of old Yugoslavian metal for six and a half. I'm very pleased with myself because I managed to make it all the way across Hungary, from ... read more

Malgré nos pérépéties lors du dernier voyage en train, nous avons quand même opté pour ce mode de transport pour nous rendre à Zagreb, en Croatie. Heureusement, le 7h30 s'est vraiment bien passé car Nellie a beaucoup dormi et nous avions un compartiment presque pour nous tout seul (je dis "presque" car une madame s'est jointe à nous pour la dernière heure du trajet). À notre arrivée à la gare, la ville m'inspirait déjà! Il y avait un grand parc devant nous... j'avais hâte d'aller y marcher. Mais avant, il fallait s'installer à notre hôtel, que Phil nous avait déniché. C'était vraiment très bien :) Très silencieux, très sombre... parfait pour dormir! Ce soir-là on était plutôt fatigués alors on a opté pour un souper "achetons à l'épicerie et mangeons à l'hôtel" avec un bon Riesling ... read more

Well 2 trains and a bus ride later, we made it to Zagreb! Since Croatia isn’t part of the EU yet, getting to and from there was tight security consistently checking tickets and passports every 30 minutes or so. We also learned quickly that shorts, or rather showing your bear legs are not acceptable in Croatia… After lots of dirty looks, we went back to the hostel to change; lesson learned haha. Zagreb was very pretty and we could not have gotten luckier with weather. I have to laugh that our hostel’s name was “hobobear” but it was quite nice; we were definitely spoiled with our apartment in Budapest though! Everything in Eastern Europe is so cheap; I never want to go back to spending money in Geneva! We also found the best restaurant with amazing ... read more

I live in small European country, Croatia, which has population approximately just as Manhattan and Brooklyn together. For those who have no idea about what I’m talking about, here’s the map: http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/641/croatiamap.gif/ Croatia has stunningly beautiful coast, sea and lots of islands, rich history, greeeat food, beautiful capital city Zagreb, nice people and great climate with a lot of sunny days. Sounds like ideal touristic country. What Croatia doesn’t have is bright future, good business opportunties and an “American dream”. And every girl needs to dream about something, doesn’t she? What place in the world can be better to realize your American dreams than in America itself?! Few days ago I started my final year at Department of Geography at University of Science here in Zagreb. I have six more exams and final work to became ... read more

OK, so we’re a bit behind on our blogging as we went to Zagreb three weeks ago, but finally I have found a moment to write about what a wonderful time we had in Croatia. When we booked the trip to Zagreb we really had no idea what was there, but the tickets were cheap and we figured, why not! We also didn’t realise that it coincided with our 1st wedding anniversary, so it was nice to figure out a few weeks before that we didn’t need to organise anything as we already had organised something. We took the long journey to Copenhagen Kastrup airport (about 3 hours) and then flew only 1½ hours before we landed in the capital of Croatia. It was an easy task to get from the airport to the main bus ... read more

Woke up to a beautiful sunny day.... Checked a few emails..ate some breakfast and then off to explore. Took the tram into the center of the city. This plaza splits the upper town (old part) from the lower town (new area). I went to the tourist office and got a self guided walk tour. I decided to walk the old town part first. I have seen tons of cities and dont care to much for all the modern buildings so I wanted to make sure that I see the old part at least. First up was a nice little hike up to a beautiful cathedral that was surrounded buy huge castle like walls. Walked around that area for a little then went to the open market. AWESOME. They tore down all the houses on Dolac to ... read more

Couldn't sleep last night cause the rain woke me up and I ended up watching some show on my laptop. I finally went to sleep around 3:30 am....woke up at 1130 with my Aussie friend checking into my hostel. It was Raining so hard...all day ...rain...rain...rain. We were planning to go out to a club tonight so we just chilled to see how the weather would turn out at the night. We went into town and he got his bus ticket and I was going to reserve my seat for the train to Budapest, but it turned out I didnt even need too. So i pretty much just got rained on for no reason. When we got back we went to the grocery store for a few snack. I bought a bottle of wine and some ... read more