Hotel Central Zagreb

... didn&#8217;t help, nor did the ****** hostel, but I&#8217;ll try to be nice.<br><br>Probably the most impressive view was coming out of the train station, when the main grassy square is right in front of you with an statue in the middle, &amp;cool buildings down the streets on either side. It made it look promising. But the problem is that it&#8217;s really just a nice looking city. Lots of nice old buildings, a few parks &amp; some statues. Plus a scattering of ...

... good glimpse of the impressive airport shopping that Copenhagen offers!  We had 10 minutes to our scheduled boarding time but  ended up taking off late. <br><br>We arrived to a very rainy Croatia and de-planed via covered stairs to a shuttle that transported us to baggage claim.  I got my passport stamped and got my bag; unfortunately, one of our group member's bags got shipped to the wrong place in Croatia!  We got most of it sorted out and then hopped on a Mercedes ...

... they are very small, very small", to which I replied "trust me, that is fine with me, small is great"! After dinner, we decide to visit a local bar which was in the basement of an apartment building. Quite interesting and very different. It gave me the impression, we were trying to hide something and gave me a glimpse of what life may have been like for non-conformist people living under the Tito regime. Did ...

... joka mainostaa itseaan kaupungin halvimpana paikkana, 100 kunaa eli vajaa 14 euroa yolta. Myos luvattu ilmainen kalja saattoi vaikuttaa paatokseen. Keskiviikkona oli sitten koko paiva aikaa hillua kaupungilla ennen yojunan lahtoa Splitiin. Onhan Zagreb ihan pysahdyksen arvoinen paikka. Rautatieaseman ja keskusaukion valilla on puistoa missa lorvailla ja keskustasta loytyy ...

... she comments. "But here you go to a café, order a drink and spend the entire day doing nothing more. There is no agenda. They really value their down time here." This philosophy affects all aspects of life in Zagreb, meaning stores close at three on Saturdays and don't open again until Monday. Being from what Bachta refers to as a "give it to me now culture," this sometimes makes it difficult to adjust ...

... ate some good pastries --- I don't even want to know how much butter/lard they use, but they sure are tasty. (Mitch made up a little song to immortalize our love for Croatian bakeries, which I had stuck in my head for the next few days.) Went to a good restaurant for my birthday dinner, and then went out dancing with the locals. As in Ljubljana, the weather in Zagreb was cold and rainy, so we were motivated to get somewhere warm quickly. We had intended to make ...

... night with them. Their banter was thick with jokes about peace keepers and Bosnians, Bosnians being the Irish of the slavic world apparently. When i arrived in ZGB i saw a city desperately lacking shade, blanketed in smog and dust and heat. Again; how utterly deceptive. The city is old, and feels old, a place of faded grandeur, and elegant, deteriorating facades. a city that sets its clocks by the deafening roar of a midday cannon. but also and ...

... Matthias used to work in Edingburgh for a year so we had plenty to talk about. When we got to Zagreb, me, Zuzka, Ola and Monika decided to not go for a lunch and do some sightseeing in Zagreb instead. As we wanted to visit a musk at 15:15, we were waiting for a tram for about 40 mins. When it finally arrived and we got inside, we realized it was going in the opposite direction than we wanted. We made a trip all around the city and it was quite funky. We ...

Flew to Zagreb to visit the homeland of my flat mate (his mother was Croat). Visited various relatives and got stoned with some cousins. We ended up getting so paranoid we hid in the basement for hours until we felt better.<br><br>Central Zagreb is lovely but some of it bears the scars of modernisation done under the government of Franjo Tudgman. He is still resented for some of these changes. There is an enormous cemetery in part of the city I recall visiting. <br>