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Our hotel is a busy business/tourist hotel on the tram line into the lovely lively capital city centre. A buzz of young professionals, tourists, business types, and smart. The first night it is cold to walk into the city centre, not finding the resto they said was close by and then waiting half an hour for a table at one of the others listed in our Lonely Planet. Locals are all out in force, quaffing lots of wine, huge meals, sumptuous desserts (they are everywhere on this trip!)
Quite a few tourists seem to be here too. We are definitely now in meat country and although we see lots of lovely fresh vegetables all over Croatia, few of them appear on dinner plates!
Bad news, everyone smokes. It is a vibrant outdoor cafe society but everyone smokes outdoors so you are sucking it in even strolling around past all the busy cafes.
I am soooo glad I have brought my (skiing!) merino wool hoodie and down vest. The air seems damp and evenings definitely cool. We learn to take the tram back and forth to our hotel instead of walking it. Although the first ight walking back, we saw many big noisy parties a huge gala event at the art gallery with many beautiful young people dressed to the nines with their Jimmy Choo shoes and designer label suits and dresses.
These Croatians are all so TALL. I feel like a midget. They are tall and handsome people. And clearly there is $$$ here in the capital city, even though along the road from our hotel is what i obviously a drop in centre to feed needs/homeless which we pass on the way to our car
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