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Rijeka Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Rijeka, Croatia
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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 ...
Rijeka, Croatia
This is a top pick! More and more, it seemed that Northern Croatia was closed for the season, and the signs seemed to be urging us southward. After seeing the roman collesium in Pula, we looked around for a hotel and then decided to drive to Rijeka to provide an early ...
Patience is a virtue
This is a top pick! ... in this case I think it more refers to the fact that the city is a port. That is about it too...just a port. I flew into Rijeka and I get off the plane on this tarmac that looks like I am the flying doctor or something. The terminal was a tin shack about ...
Medieval greetings from Kastav
On our way to Rijeka we stopped at Kastav. Kastav is an old medieval suburb of Rijeka situated on one of the hills. Strategically this was good location for observation and defence in the medieval times. The fortress is still well ...
Istria
... Irish or Scottish houses, though). Soon the scattered houses gather into discernable outskirts and Rijeka grows around us. It's a major port-city in Croatia and houses a considerable harbour with large ships docked for loading. It is similar to ...
Rejuvinating Rijeka
... We caught an overnight train from Venice to Zagreb and got a connecting train early in the morning...and got in to Rijeka at midday. The scenery on the train ride was fantastic....going down the mountain towards the coastline...just brilliant. ...
bucsu...és hazafelé
... nekem. és aztmonta hogy egszerüen ugy tudok eljutni a határhoz hogy este kviisz ngem egy helyre aohl sok kmaiion áll rijeka közelébe... és majd valmeylik biztos elvsiz a határhoz ha éjfélt üt az ora.merthogy akkrovan vége a kamionstopnak... ...
Roaming around Rijeka
... Nana's apartment, right in time for gnocchi, a traditional sausage like potato and pastry mix. In the evening, our last one in Croatia, we had a plan to go out for drinks with Arsa and then Dado decided to join us. We went to Trsat, Rijeka's eastern ...
Dobar dan Hrvatska!
... season (European winter) so it has only been a couple of months since we have last seen each other. When we come to Croatia, we stay in her apartment where my mum grew up and lived until she went to University. My grandfather unfortunately died just ...
Beach life
... 4 (it is summer holidays in Croatia). When I told him I was 11 and I was in Year 7, he was confused. (This is because in Croatia, you start school when you are 7 years old). We came home at around 6:30. At around 8, we went to a show called Baba ...
Moscenicka Draga farewells
... I called him. We had lunch in the restaurant by the beach, an early celebration of my dad's birthday as we'll be far from Croatia on his birthday in 5 days time. Here and there, there were some drops of rain so we left earlier than usually. I said goodbye ...
Pizza by the beach at night
... in the shade of the restaurants by the beach. Usual daily routine. After Mošćenička Draga, we went to Rijeka's centre to meet up with my mum's godmother and godfather. We then went to the train station to pick up Mario ...
18hr Boat Journey
the boat journey wasn't as bad i thought it was going to be. despite orginally planning to sleep on deck, once the wind picked up it was inevitable that we were going to have to go inside. However, during the journey the view was great. we passed so many ...
Volosko beats
... so thin that it is almost fully transparent! After dinner, we went out to the Volosko summer night festival. The coastline near Rijeka is dotted with small towns, and each place has it's own festival once every year in the summer. It is a ...
The Guerin children - new blog May 2007
... name for our motorhome and have settled on TITO the KETTLE VAN! It has been lots of fun learning words in different languages - in Croatia you say "dobar dan" for hello and "do vidjenja" for good-bye. We miss you and are thinking of you. Love ...
At long last - another entry from Croatia
... Dolomites (alps) was fabulous and we have decided our retirement will include some time here each year. We are now in Croatia, on the Istrian Peninsular (the new Tuscany) and it is fabulous. Lots of Italian cuisine, the clearest stretches of the ...
Rijeka
... . No bikes. After handing over 150 Kronas, the bikes were safely stowed underneath with no further fuss, and we bused through Croatia towards the coast. I did notice that a couple of places were pretty shot up, a reminder that this was a war zone ...
Crowded apartment
... , and tiramisu for dessert. I watched the tennis tournament in Umag on the television and later watched the friendly handball match between Croatia and Sweden. It is crowded in my Nana's apartment now, as there is four of us staying here, plus her and my ...
Friendly football
... carved in a particular way. We came home and then I went with my uncle Dado to a friendly football match between HNK Rijeka and Celje, a B-league team from Slovenia. The stadium is very close to the apartment. Dado goes to every match that Rijeka plays, ...
Tije and Tuene
In the morning, we had breakfast and then my dad and I were on our way back to Rijeka. We stopped at a ranch called Barba Tone. I didn't ride a horse though. I said goodbye to Rea, Rocco, Lara and Nika and then we were off. We then went straight to ...
Remembering Tomo
After breakfast we first went to the cemetery, to visit my grandfather's grave. He died in 2000, just a few weeks before I was born. My mum says he was so much fun; she still misses him a lot. I am really sad that I have never met him. Afterwards we went ...
Short and Sweet
Not much to say about Rijeka. Just a few pictures for your enjoyment. Ice cream is amazing though! Off to Ljubljana in the morning! ...
Adriatic Sea Part 7
... fish in abundance!!! I hope my mate Eric from work sees some of the photos - he might have his next holiday in Croatia. :-) For the sunset we went back to Crikvenica where we had another perfect sunset (you got to see the photos). ...
"Hey Lady, do you need a room?"
... we caught an early bus to Zadar, the scenery on the way down was beautiful. The road followed the coastline all the way down. Croatia is a lot more arid than I thought it was - with white rock hills with a little speckling of vegetation here and there. ...
Rijeka, Croatia
So we stazed at Tina and Ninas house for two nights. It was fun to hang out with some good friends (also including Lada). Went to some bar that had all these toarches and then were plazing some live Croatian music including Bjelo Dugme (pretty good ...
Km 760, durch den Schneesturm
... so konnte ich dann die restlichen 50km bei nur noch starkem Schneefall geniessen..;) Abends um 17.00 Uhr bin ich dann in Rijeka eingefahren, wo die Temperaturen schon wieder angenehmer waren und es auch keinen Schnee mehr hatte, da ich wieder am Meer ...
At home in Eastern Europe
... misspellings. The keyboard is tough to handle. We left Portland, Or with a stop in Chicago and Frankfurt. The trip from Frankfurt to Croatia was brutal. The worst turbulence Ive ever been in I think. A student that is part of our team had to use the ...
At sea
... up until about 10 by just constantly moving. Oh yeah, coffee helped too! Our goal was to get to Rijeka, a major transportation hub in northern Croatia, as shown here: We landed at the Trieste airport at 9:30 am and due to fortunate timing with the ...
Day 267 - Road to Fiume (Rijeka)
... our eastern facing window thanks to the incredible 'blackout' shutters. Mia thinks this is a European phenomenon and not just Croatia. Regardless it is great for sleeping. This reminds us of the prevailing question we have been considering since ...
The Port at the Beginning of the Day
... caught breakfast at the supermarket the next morning and caught the bus to Pula. We were sad to leave this little town. Rijeka is a transport hub from what we have heard. Many people come through the town on their way to others. We ...
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