Blogs from Krapina-Zagorje, Croatia, Europe

Central Park, Zagreb. Maybe not the same aura as Central Park, New York but it’s quite lovely here. We’ve had the leisurely stroll around and are just having a break prior to picking up our bags, taking a short tram trip to the local bus station and hopefully getting our GoOpti ride to Bled. Yes we had breakfast plus so we are prepared, packed and ready to picnic. Walked through delightful fruit and veg market. Full of very local produce from very small farms, some selling just a few eggs, beans and some form of pickled marrow. But the colours of some of the produce is delightful, water melons have a deep red colour here and the tomatoes (of various breeds) look quite enticing. Even though other shops are just opening there’s numerous examples of snaps ... read more

It’s the p.m. part of the post. Back to the upper town details of which were cleverly hidden on the back of the lower town map (who would have thunk to turn it over - don’t answer that I’m still getting over the flights here). Julie just read my blog. Big mistake for me as she’s busy correcting my spelling, grammar and details. She is upset by the fact that my Museum of Modern Art is really the Academy of Music. Pedantic as it may seem, it just means read ‘Museum of Modern Art’ as ‘Academy of Music’ except when it is really the Museum of Modern Art. The colourful one is the Academy of Music (go figure), the boring colour one is the Museum of Modern Art (go figure). Up the World’s shortest funicular railway ... read more

Clutch motorbike tours of Craotia, and the six other countries which made up the old Yugoslavia, have planned a comprehensive motorbike tour of this beautiful region. Detailed planning is evident....Rozle, our Croation tour leader, along with Gordon, a Serbian rock-star, (apparently!), and Hector, a Spanish nurse, who is on vacation, are to be our guides and minders for the next 20 days. They are young, enthusiastic motor-bike lovers, with great senses of humour. We are in for a lot of laughs! We are joining two American couples, BMW motorbike enthusiasts, on the road. They have travelled way more extensively than the 'green' Kiwis, but we have a good feeling about them..... In order to give Shane a hand with keeping right, Rozle tied a very bright flouro cloth onto the right hand side of the handle-bars. ... read more