GO TO CROATIA. GO TO CROATIA. GO TO CROATIA. GO TO CROATIA.
I will reiterate again, I LOVE living in Abu Dhabi, especially for the overnight travel. We take off in the wee hours of the morning and land in a foreign locale as the day is beginning. Gives us entire day there and saves us the cost of an additional night of a hotel.
Due to not sleeping much and the overnight travel, we opted to lay fairly low and have a relaxing first day of the longest vacation we have had together since Christmas break (thanks to my teaching commitments with work). Honestly, we spent all of our time in Old City Zagreb. For our trip in Croatia, we opted to hire the private car service again, to get between locations, and when explaining the city to us on our maps, our amazing guys what quite specific: Stay in Old City, avoid New City. In his words (impressive English as a second language): "Stay out of....how do you American's call it...the Projects?" And that we did.
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| Zagreb: Between Old City and New City |
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| Random street meandering |
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| Lovely words at my favorite little cafe |
Zagreb has this AWESOME local market that occurs every day and it has 3 parts: Fish market, produce market, and flower market. I only regretted that we did not have a kitchen to cook all of the amazing seafood options!
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| Tolkien's Bar. Time for a good beer and good cider! |
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| I forgot that the sky can be SOOOO cerulean blue and tree bright green! |
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| Absolutely lovely day for a lazy walk around a beautiful city |
Zagreb has excellent public transportation, is easily walked, and is really clean. It is extremely economical, the people are nice (and EVERYONE speaks English, as it is mandatory int he schools), and it is actually a nice place to explore AND relax.
Seriously, book your tickets and get your butt to Zagreb.
