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Background: The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a federal independent Communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO. Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.

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By PeterAndPaige
September 8th 2008

Relaxing in Croatia

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The train trip

After picking up a hungover Conrad (a good mate currently living in London) the night before, we departed early for Croatia. The gang was made up of Mateja, Tina, Marko, Conrand, Paige and myself The first stop were the Postojna caves which were mind boggling though the tour guide was a camera nazi as we weren't allowed to take pictures inside the main section. We took a train ride to get into the cave and then a 40 minute walk with another train ride back out. It was a bit cool so we all had to rug up. Next we [View Full Entry]

By Weggs
October 10th 2007

Our last day in Croatia.

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Arch of the Sergians
This entry to the city was built in 30 BC

Wednesday October 10th We felt surprisingly good this morning and after negotiating with our landlady to leave our bags in the unit we set off to further explore the quaint little town of Rovinj. We took another route to the church of St Euphemia, enjoying the ramble up the narrow streets reminiscent of Venice. After once again enjoying the views from the churchyard we took an alternate route down that took us past the fishing boats unloading their night's catch. We then visited the aquarium, supposedly the oldest scientific aquarium on the Mediterranean coast. This was interesting and as we [View Full Entry]

By The Martini s
July 8th 2007

Opatija to Pula Croatia

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RECOVERED

Yesterday we walked across the street from our hotel and got two beach chairs and an umbrella and laid by the sea. Jon went swimming. We had lunch at the little grill near our beach chairs. Jon ordered a hamburger that was definitely not your traditional American burger. There was some red pepper puree’ sauce, maybe a little vinegar and who knows what else on a huge half loaf of French bread with some beef inside. The bread in Croatia is really soft and so good. We got some gelato and headed back to our hotel for the internet connection [View Full Entry]

By RossandAmanda
June 13th 2007

Long time no write

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Hey, Sorry about the delay but weve been in small town Slovenia for 2 weeks with my family and the interent is quite a ways away. Slovenia is such a beautiful country, it reminds me of the Okanagan. Ross and I were staying in the house where my papa(my moms dad) was born and raised with 13 of his brothers and sisters. My grandfather passed away over 10 years ago, so to see where he was from will be something Ill never forget. Most of the brothers moved to Canada while the 5 girls have stayed in Slovenia, in the same [View Full Entry]

By nanu nickama
June 8th 2007

A serach for Roman History - Republika Hrvastska

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coloseum - Pula

In a hurry to search Roman History in Pula. [View Full Entry]

By Bagger Scooter Vicki
May 31st 2007

Pula ( Croation for Shithole )

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Roman Ruins

I suppose its not all that surprising that when you are away for a month not all your experiences will be highlights, and there is no doubt that our short stay in Pula was the lowlight of our trip so far. The day had started well enough, we had decided to leave Rab Island early, mainly because the weather had taken a turn for the worse and if we couldn´t spend the day swimming there was not a lot else to do there. The drive back to Pula took us along the coast providing spectacular views of the towns below [View Full Entry]

By jefe
May 5th 2007

Back To Rovinj

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Mushroom Soup
Delicious

After Returning from Belgrade, Polona and I drove to Croatia where we stayed for the Slovenian Holiday. The Adriatic was a little cold but that didnt stop us from taking a swim. We made some delicious mushroom soup and spent out mornings drinking coffee at different cafes overlooking the harbour and the adriatic sea. TGiven the May Holiday (5 days off for Slovenes and honorary Slovenes [yours truly]) here were a lot of festivities and live music, including the famous Oliver Dragojevic. There is a little pair of islands of the coast that are accessible by boat and have great [View Full Entry]

By Johnny D
August 25th 2006

good good times

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ok so im at Irenas parents place now. the keyboard is a little different, so this might read wierd. plus, her dad is making me drink a lot of wine, so im a little tipsy.... but i havnt written for a while so i though i should... remind me to tell more about belgrade, novi sad, and zagreb but Istra!! oh Istra... thats the name of this peninsula here on the northern coast of croatia... it looks JUST like the puget sound, i miss it so much. we drove into Rijeka last night and stayed with Irenas childhood friend. then we [View Full Entry]

By ZobeZ
July 11th 2006

"Che sera, sera..."

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"Che sera, sera..."
The view from the Omladinski Hostel terrace

(Note:this is backdated, so this is actually written after my "I'm so sorry I haven't written entry from the actual day). Rudi and I left around 9 am this morning for Pula. It was very nice of him to drive me the ~1.5 hour journey: I had fully expected to take a bus. After a bit of confusion trying to find the Omladinski (Youth) Hostel - we only had a very basic map in my Let's Go! book, which gave directions by local bus from the bus station- he dropped me off there, and I was on my own. The Omladinski [View Full Entry]

By aggielaw2005
May 20th 2006

Last days in Croatia

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Radio Interview

We had three more concerts in Croatia before heading to Albania. We had a concert in a school dorm and many students came and recieved salvation. Then we had a concert in a former synagoge at a theology school in Osijek. There were many Americans attending school there. When we first arrived in the city Kaspars K, Dora and I had an interview with a local radio station to promote the concert. Our last night we had a concert in a cinema next door to a nightclub. It was crazy because during the whole concert, backstage we could hear the hiphop [View Full Entry]

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