International Hotel Zagreb

found these great hosts here in croatia's capital. Oh and brought bridget into the world of couchsurfing...she is know a true believer of its magic hehe. Our hosts took us on a walking tour of the entire city today...we saw the biggest cathedral in croatia and walked up the hill to see the beautiful overview of the city. Its a nice city...biggest by far...but kind of bland as other city have gone so far on the trip but definitely the most bustling for croatia. After our tour we took a ...

... one just for relaxing... So, that was Zagreb although I seem to have spent most of my time out in the countryside. Actually the frequency of transport to outlying areas is remarkable. To places 20 km. away there seemed to be buses every 20 minutes and even after midnight there were still buses. Compare that with Hobart where even in the city, on Sundays, there's hardly a bus once the sun goes down. Parks, buses... to me it ...

... Cathedral, a catholic church that was absolutely gorgeous; we were hoping to climb the two towers but both were under construction so we just looked around the cathedral. Then we exchanged money at a local bank and it was quite an ordeal and took a lot longer than I had expected.  When we finally had our Croatian kuna we walked around the city and through the shopping areas to do a little shopping (I was rather disappointed with the shopping, tho).  We took the ...

Well it is finally here, my blog of Croatia.  I am breaking the blog into two entries: 1 on Zagreb and 1 on Split.  After a 6 hour train ride and a stop by border guards, we (consisting of me, my roommate Peter, and another McDaniel student, Dan) were in the capital of Croatia, Zagreb.  The first thing you notice is how much smaller the city is compared to all the other cities I have been.  We got in at night so I got a sample of what Croatians do at night.  This consist of ...

WOW I managed to get here! After a long search I found a bus which would take me and my bike(!) to Zagreb.. And it went so smoothly... Although I didn't have a passport, but an id-card (stupid me) I managed to cross the border to Croatia, which is not part of the EU... (yet..). Another confrontation with ...

... on the continent. One frequent frustration for Lawrence is the general lack of international cuisine. "Whether going out to eat or shopping at the grocery store, your choices tend to be Croatian, Italian, and more Italian," she jokes. Likewise, there's a similar lack of choice in clothing and shopping in general. "You are starting to see more and more of an international and cosmopolitan flare to the ...

pretty much just slept here for about 15 hours. So just saw the train station and the hostel we stayed in.it looked like it could have been a really nice place, there was a really nice park straight in front of the station. It was absolutely roasting there so we decided we wanted to head somewhere we could just relax and enjoy the sun so we decided to head to lake bled in slovenia.

... come through someplace for one night and not spend anytime looking around it. So, at the very least, I felt obligated to go out and shoot some pics around town. Somewhat comically, the local tourist office is still handing out the same pamphlet/map that they were in 1998. Sure, it's probably been upgraded a little (though I really didn't notice a difference), but it's otherwise pretty much identical to the one I used last time I was in town. So I can't even ...

... Drinks at cafés are cheap and by two o'clock we saw countless high school aged youths moving through the streets and loitering in the parks. The presence of the mass at the Dynamo Zagreb game made more sense too, after Leah's explanation. I thought that a great proportion of them looked like they were in their teens. They probably were: since the game only cost CDN $ 5, it's not like that is out of the price range of many teenagers like an Oiler's hockey game. Life in Zagreb ...