Wednesday 23 August … Zagreb

A great day to stay in the shadows of tall buildings. It’s 35C today, no rush a lovely relaxed breakfast under trailing creepers, very tropical feeling today.

I have to leave this place French toast for breakfast made freshly from the Swanky kitchen.

We retrace some of the steps of the bike tour, although not planned, we are on foot today.

The tunnels nice and cool, built for WWII but never used as this city escaped any bombing. So what did these vibrant people do in 1993 … they opened it up to the first Croatian rave party.

The Lotrscak Tower is the best viewing point of Zagreb at this time as others are closed, our timing was right, as at 12 noon every day there is a cannon blast, what a bonus that we saw it.

A ride on the funicular railway … all of 2 minutes for the whole price of €0.66 … more of a novelty.

There are so many obscure museums here, we chose to go to the Museum of Hangovers, it was a choice of the Museaum of Broken Relationships. A lot of reading of people’s hangover experiences and crazy situations they got into.

It’s getting warmer and time for lunch … great thing here, you can go to a bakery, grab a roll, go and sit at a cafe, order a coffee, in our case, beer and Radler, then eat and drink … you can sit there all day and nobody will move you on. The Croatians support coffee and people watching!! So we are under a huge fixed cafe umbrella with mist sprays and fans.

The city has acquired numerous life sided sculptures over the Covid period. Apparently, they were made for people to take selfies with when it was lockdown and people couldn’t meet for coffees.

2 thoughts on “Wednesday 23 August … Zagreb

  1. All that food, guess you’ll need it with all the riding ahead. Which way will you head south, inland or along the coast, as much as you can that way.

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