Zagreb

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I'm sorry that I haven't blogged, internet has been v scarce!!!

Zagreb started off pretty dramatically when I realised on the train there that we were supposed to ring them 24/48 hours before arrival to ensure that somebody is waiting there for check-in, because they have limited reception hours. So after a mini freak-out that we would be on the streets, a fair few texts and a huge favour done by Abbi who (bless her) rang our hotel for us to check if a receptionist was there, and THANKFULLY there was! She was a very happy chappy too and became a little friend the whole time we were there – even provided us with biscuits, yummm.

Zagreb itself was nice, but I don’t think it’s somewhere that you could spend a lot of time. Although the areas surrounding it look amazing.
On the first day we just had a wander around. I bought a couple of lovely little things and we also browsed the market. We also had a huge stack of pancakes from Kava tavana (I could have spelt that completely wrong then) which were sooo nice but v. filling.
We also used our trusty Europe book to hunt down a pizzeria that it recommended. The pizza was amazing, but we couldn’t finish ours at all, they were huge. We were baffled as to how everybody around us seemed to be managing wiping their plates clean with no problem at all. Super Croatians.

With our hotel, we got given a leaflet about Plitvice lakes, and so we decided to take the offer and pay 200 kunas (which is about £20) to be taken to the lakes and back by a man called Marijo, who also bought us water as ‘a present’, awwwwwwww.

Plitvice was beaaautiful. I’ve never seen water so clear and so blue in my life. It was like something you’d see on a Disney film, or a landscape painting of the most picturesque perfect place. It was amazing.

We walked around for about six hours (apart from the parts where we were on a free boat ride!) which we thought would be way too long for us, but the place was so big and pretty, it went in no time at all.
Then we headed back to the hostel and had our leftover pizza :)

On the last day it was raining so much all day. It just didn’t stop. There were a few museums in the Upper town, so we just decided to head there and go the Natural History Museum that I spotted on a sign post (with high hopes that it was somewhat like London). It was a terrible little museum. Half rocks, half taxidermy. None of it in English neither, so lord knows what we were supposed to learn. It was 15 kunas (£1.50) though, and allowed us to dry off after the man at reception kindly let us know ‘ooh! You’re soaked!’. Yep, we figured from the rain drops dripping off our noses!
Afterwards we headed back to kava tavana and had a toastie (thought of you Mum!), and then headed back to the hostel where our new friend allowed us to sit until our night train at 11pm. What a sweetie pie. So we sat and had a cup of tea and biscuit whilst making the most of the wifi before another dreaded night train.