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Croatia Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Croatia, Croatia
how we got through Croatia
This is a top pick! ... to where our driver was heading. After several km we caught a Turkish man, another lorry driver. While we were driving through the whole Croatia, I managed to catch up with sleep in the cabin bed of the Turkish man, for about 1,5h. At 5pm we were around ...
Is It Wrong to Love a Power Plant?
This is a top pick! I spent much of this morning driving through Croatia's coastal mountains. One particularly lovely ocean inlet was dominated by a giant coal-fired power plant. I expect most people would have thought this ruined the scene, but I'm an engineer at heart ...
Dobrodošli u Hrvatska
This is a top pick! ... activity in Poreč. This could be because of the weekend, or maybe I've finally hit the high season, or maybe Croatia has a better marketing campaign than Slovenia. The old town was interesting because it had more of it's original architecture than ...
Speed Trap
This is a top pick! ... totally unreasonable), but for some reason this morning I was just like, whatever. I had read in some countries (I couldn't remember whether Croatia was one), you just pay the fine on the spot. I happened to have plenty of cash with me since the hotel ...
The Republic of Ragusa
This is a top pick! ... for most of its existence, it was shelled by the Yugoslav Army with the help of Montenegrin militias in 1991, during Croatia's bid for independence. When I visited, just about all of the damage has been repaired. The only obvious sign tourists were ...
McDonald's and Hello Kitty
This is a top pick! ... from the Roman era, including a huge Amphitheater (Amfiteatar), which is the largest Roman monument preserved in Croatia and claims have the best preserved mantle wall anywhere. From examining those walls, archeologists determined coverings were ...
Two Archeology Museums
This is a top pick! First thing this morning, I returned my rental car. It was a little sad. I was it's first driver so it felt like mine, and I'd put just over 2000km on the vehicle. It really wouldn't have made any sense to keep the car at this point, though. I'm going to ...
The Obnoxious and the Outrageous
This is a top pick! ... Split. So I didn’t find my shoes. But thanks to Lottie and Hannah I am very glad I ended up returning to Croatia. Next I am planning to go to Belgrade, which I’m told is the party capital for Europe. The place will surely be off ...
Splitting Split
This is a top pick! ... time, probably because I was in my Split hotel for so long I got rusty. I was pretty tired after all that, especially since Croatia was still Texas-hot, but I did manage to find the energy to climb up to a small fort above the town. Construction began on ...
Best Slap Ever
This is a top pick! ... . You've got decent sized roads running through a series of towns where you have to slow down to 50 kph (about 30 mph). If Croatia were West Texas, there'd be a cop hiding at the edge of every town. Interestingly, I noticed the car behind me flashing his ...
Can't get enough of Hvar!
This is a top pick! Once again we decide to extend our glorious stay at the Amfora hotel in Hvar and completely write-off Split. We wake up just in time to get the last available room and surprise, surprise, we have to change rooms again. We head down to ...
Don't mention Harry Kewell...
This is a top pick! Hot. So fucking hot. Near Zagreb's main square, I lounge on beautifully comfortable couches, protected from death by magnificent, flaring umbrellas, accompanied by an espressoand ice tea. In the draining heat, the coffee keeps me awake, the latter ...
pearl of the Adriatic Sea
This is a top pick! POLSKI: Ponownie szlismy spory kawal drogi, nie bylo gdzie stanac, bo droga byla bez pobocza i przez dluzszy moment bez chodnika. W koncu stanelismy na jakims kawalku skwerka przed prywatnym domem i stamtad zabralo nas malzenstwo w srednim wieku. ...
The Anniversary Special
This is a top pick! ... We thought the 4 -6 hour tour looked about right to us. We weren't alone by any means here as it is one of Croatia's most popular natural tourist attractions, but there were still times when we were all alone along the walking trails. The trails wander ...
On to Zagreb... last stop on our epic train trip
This is a top pick! We get into Belgrade at 7 am and walked around downtown for 3 hours before hopping back on the train to Zagreb. Zagreb is beautiful and we walk around before finding an outdoor café/restaurant to have dinner at and watch the Euro 2008 finals. ...
Lazy In Starigrad... Again!
This is a top pick! ... (A$16) but cut the trip down to four hours. We stayed in the same place that we stayed last week but paid an extra 35 Kuna (A$8) for a room with a kitchen. Next we get back on the tourist trail with what is apparently one of Croatia's ...
Hvar town by way of Bosnia
This is a top pick! I head straight to the old town to do a walk on the city walls before finding a good spot at the hotel beach to finally fall asleep for a few hours. I wake up and grab the "complementary" breakfast yet again before returning to my "bed" and falling ...
Zany Zagreb
This is a top pick! ... Zagreb Botanical Garden, only to find out it closed early on Tuesdays. (Argh. Don't trust the times printed in Lonely Planet Croatia 2010.) I probably didn't need the extra exercise, though. After all that sun and walking, it was back to my hotel room ...
Two Fortresses
This is a top pick! I started off the morning with a longer-than-expected walk to the Museum of Croatian Archeological Monuments, including an unexpected trip up Marjan Hill. Marjan Hill was Split's version of Central Park, except with more climbing. As early as the Middle ...
Goodbye Adriatic...
This is a top pick! ... was ISO Certified in Food Safety Management. I ordered room service. There was a 30% service charge, but it only came out to $1.50 since food in Croatia was relatively cheap. Later I may jump on the bed. There's no banister for me to slide down, though. ...
The Longest Day Ends with a Sword Fight
This is a top pick! ... so I quickly made it to a tourist office selling the tickets and found out my guidebook was wrong yet again. Thanks Lonely Planet Croatia. The Moreška was on Wednesday, not Thursday. I had tried to find confirmation on the internet, but couldn't find ...
I'm on a Bus on a Boat
This is a top pick! ... to be very reasonable, just under $10 before I added in the tip, so I'm glad I went ahead and did it. I think if or when Croatia does go to the euro, prices will definitely go up for tourist items. For example, paying 100 kuna for a 3 hour bus ride sounds ...
Croatia Part 1
This is a top pick! ... acid had dissolved and was wreaking havoc in our stomach, our gas ran out halfway through cooking tea (and the biggest campsite in Croatia didn't sell gas), the dryers had broke so our clean clothes began to smell, and it didn't stop raining for 3 days. ...
Let's go to Dubrovnik this morning...
This is a top pick! I wake up early and head down to the Croatia Airlines office at 8 am as we have decided that enough is enough with the trains... I book flights for us that leave 3 hours later and then go for a run around the old city. We have breakfast and head to ...
Catch You Later, Croatia
This is a top pick! This afternoon, I left Zagreb, and Croatia, for Ptuj, Slovenia. When I looked at my schedule earlier this week, I realized that I had allocated only one full day for Zagreb. As with Ljubljana, I would have preferred more time. While I was able to see two ...
Hanging in Hvar
This is a top pick! I was off to Hvar today, apparently it is the place to be right now, and is also the sunniest of all the Croatian islands. I got up early to make sure I got a ticket for the catamaran boat, I haven't had a lie-in past about 8.30am yet, urgh. ...
CMZ Croatia
This is a top pick! ... put us down 1,500 kilometres southeast (yet somehow still in the same time zone) in the Balkan wonderland that is Croatia. Still relatively unknown in North America, Croatia has been a budding tourist hotspot among Europeans for quite a few years now ...
Rudolph Hess
This is a top pick! Quote of the Moment "We are the middle children of history, with no purpose or place" - Fight Club So there we are - being served German beer and Rusian vodka by a Croatian waitress in an Irish and JRR Tolkien themed pub in uptown Zagreb, ...
Dubrovnik
This is a top pick! Before we even got off the bus the touts were marking their intended victims. Our man´s brochure looked promising so we jumped in his van. He had said the bus station was a 10 minute walk away and the old town was 15 minutes away. We sped up a hill ...