Tuesday 9 May 2017

Our time is up in Zagreb

Tomorrow we leave this beautiful country called Croatia and head to Hungary by train, should be fun. Our last day spent in Croatia will surely influence our thoughts on this very different place , our arrival into Zagreb late on Saturday drew some long faces and some played their cards close to their chests not wanting to sound like wingeing Aussies. With the drab appearance and graffiti plastered everywhere my thoughts were leaning towards the wingeing Aussie theory, but as the sun rose on Sunday and Monday mornings we were ready to tackle these arising fears , I've already spoken of Sunday now lets get on to Monday. The first thing to do was ride the funicular to the dizzying heights above Zagreb (about 70mts) no shortage of oxygen up here, strolling back down from this lofty spot above the city we find shops, the stroll is now a crawl. Here is a known fact about Croatia they have the most cake and ice cream shops per population, and WADDA is road testing most of them. More time is spent eating as we drag ourselves towards the botanical gardens . Not much botany in this garden but I suppose they are trying, heading back towards the city more food ,this is ridiculous. I plough through another great lunch , but would give my leftie for bangers and mash or just a good old fashioned roast and I reckon that's still about 3 weeks away. Zagreb has a great public transport system so we decide to put it through its paces, tight arse Tom buys 4 one hour tickets so we can test the the tramway section, out past the Zagreb zoo we hop off and begin to stroll again. Rain begins so we re mount the tram and head back to town, unfortunately this tram is on city bypass and we finish up out the other side of town. We were not lost just misplaced and soon return to the city, well Zagreb has won back it's great ratings but only through  its very extensive range of food and cakes & ice cream. Tomorrow we are bound for Siofok a small town across the boarder in Hungary on lake Baliton.............bye bye WADDA

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