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Zagreb July 14

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July 15th 2009
We arrived in Zagreb today on schedule - at 12 noon - and stepped out of our train to an unbelievable heat! I couldn’t get internet at the hotel so I don’t know what the temperature was but it felt like 40 celsius. After a fairly long and steamy tram ride we arrived at our hotel area. (Trams here come in two flavours: the new modern air-conditioned variety and the old somewhat beaten up wi ... read more

Europe » Croatia » Central Croatia

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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 feder... ... read more