Blogs from Zadar, Dalmatia, Croatia, Europe - page 6

Geo: 44.122, 15.2381We are now in Zadar having spent a fabulous two days seeing various aspects of Croatia.We spent yesterday morning further exploring Zagreb, returning to some of the monuments of the Lower Town we had only seen from the bus. These included the National Theatre building in Tito square and the parks that form a green U around the city. We also went back to the markets which were now open and we browsed through the various stalls selling flowers, fruit and fish. I bought a beautiful hand embroidered table cloth for my back table which was not expensive. There were some lovely more modern sculptures in the town too, including one of an old lady I particularly liked. We had lunch at a cafe near the main square which was great.We left Zagreb about ... read more

It's raining... Got a room with the craziest woman ever aarghhh. Kornati tomorrow!... read more

The physical scars of war are not evident as we stroll around the traffic-free marble streets of Zadar's old town. Zadar has changed hands many times since it was first settled by Illystrians in the 9th century BC and traces of successive inhabitants are to be found everywhere and displayed with pride. One would never suspect that 60% of its buildings were destroyed by allied bombing in WWII and that Zadar was under siege by the Serbs after the breakup of Yugoslavia in 1993. The economic scars of war that you might expect are also conspicuously absent. On the contrary, many of the monuments in Zagreb are either newly renovated or under re-construction. There are new impressive highways and the economy seems to be thriving. Maybe reconstruction after the war has accelerated urban renewal resulting in ... read more

Well hello Blogettes. It is with a heavy heart that I am writing my blog this morning. It is the morning of the 10th of May and we are sitting inside the Astra Yachting section of Marina Dalmajica and we have to leave the boat in a couple of hours. We arrived here last night, opting to have our last night in the marina; get the boat fuelled up and fill her with water and have a chance to get packed up, and organised in some form of orderly fashion rather than a last minute panic and *^$% fight. Taking up from Split; the washing wasn’t finished until 12.00 noon but it was worth the wait. Nice clear plastic wrapped packages of sparkling fresh and clean clothes were picked up from the laundrette and I’ve got ... read more

We knew we weren’t in London any more when our plane landed in a paddock and the police had the traffic stopped as our pilot drove the plane across a road to the terminal! We arrived in Zadar on Monday night the 24th September for the beginning of our two week trip around Croatia. We headed straight for our hostel to drop off our bags before heading off to try our first local pivo (beer) and check out Borik, the area of Zadar we were staying in. The hostel was right across from a big marina and just near a nice little beach. A nice change from London. The next morning after our delicious dry bread breakfast (and some weird meat paste….) we headed to the old town of Zadar for a look around. The bus ... read more