Post by Kim on May 7, 2003 17:46:40 GMT -5
This is my last full day in this city...
Tommorrow at 8 in the morning I take a bus to Plitvica lakes national park. It`s about 2.5 hours away. In the afternoon I return to Zagreb, and at 0.15 tommorrow night (which is actually the day after tomorrow) I take another bus to Rovinj in Istria peninsula. Apparently, there is no shorter way to get by public transportation from Plitvica to Istria, or at least the lady at the information office at the bus station doesn`t know about it, and has only information on buses from or to Zagreb.
I have only 13 minutes until they close this internet cafe, so I have to hurry...
This morning I went with Nenad and Pepica (for those who didn`t read the previous reports - Nenad is my mother`s cousin) to Jasenovac, the site of the biggest concentration camp in former Yugoslavia. It`s about 110 KM south-east of Zagreb, on the banks of the Sava river, which in this area is the border between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Most of the way is a highway, so it takes just over an hour after you leave Zagreb.
The museum was closed today (It`s Sunday), and there was no one there except us. There is a big monument, which you can`t miss from the road to Jasenovac (take the exit of Novska from the highway), and a map of the camp - unfortunately for me, it was only in Croatian, and Domagoj wasn`t there to translate it...
When we returned to Zagreb, we stopped at a village on the outskirts of the city, where Dubravko (Nenad`s son) and his wife Tanya have a workshop. They have a business of making furnitures and wall-papers. There we had a barbeque lunch and spent a few hours. Tanya speak English, so I had someone to talk to...Their 2 children were on holiday with Tanya`s parents in Slavonia (eastern Croatia). This is the last day of 4 days holiday for 1st of May, so many people take time off...
Tommorrow everybody is back, but I will be away from here... I must say that I had enough of staying with people of my mother`s age who don`t speak any language I know...
So tomorrow I hit the road, and I will be back in Zagreb a day or two before May 15, when I fly to Budapest, so hopefully I will see those who were away this time...and it`s time to stop before they kick me out of here...
Tommorrow at 8 in the morning I take a bus to Plitvica lakes national park. It`s about 2.5 hours away. In the afternoon I return to Zagreb, and at 0.15 tommorrow night (which is actually the day after tomorrow) I take another bus to Rovinj in Istria peninsula. Apparently, there is no shorter way to get by public transportation from Plitvica to Istria, or at least the lady at the information office at the bus station doesn`t know about it, and has only information on buses from or to Zagreb.
I have only 13 minutes until they close this internet cafe, so I have to hurry...
This morning I went with Nenad and Pepica (for those who didn`t read the previous reports - Nenad is my mother`s cousin) to Jasenovac, the site of the biggest concentration camp in former Yugoslavia. It`s about 110 KM south-east of Zagreb, on the banks of the Sava river, which in this area is the border between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Most of the way is a highway, so it takes just over an hour after you leave Zagreb.
The museum was closed today (It`s Sunday), and there was no one there except us. There is a big monument, which you can`t miss from the road to Jasenovac (take the exit of Novska from the highway), and a map of the camp - unfortunately for me, it was only in Croatian, and Domagoj wasn`t there to translate it...
When we returned to Zagreb, we stopped at a village on the outskirts of the city, where Dubravko (Nenad`s son) and his wife Tanya have a workshop. They have a business of making furnitures and wall-papers. There we had a barbeque lunch and spent a few hours. Tanya speak English, so I had someone to talk to...Their 2 children were on holiday with Tanya`s parents in Slavonia (eastern Croatia). This is the last day of 4 days holiday for 1st of May, so many people take time off...
Tommorrow everybody is back, but I will be away from here... I must say that I had enough of staying with people of my mother`s age who don`t speak any language I know...
So tomorrow I hit the road, and I will be back in Zagreb a day or two before May 15, when I fly to Budapest, so hopefully I will see those who were away this time...and it`s time to stop before they kick me out of here...