Otra joya escondida es la bahía Stupova, o Uvala Stupova en croata, que también queda al sur de Mošćenička Draga, a unos 13-14 km. Para llegar ahí, al parecer…
Our first time in Croatia. I remember all the terrible news coverage during the Balkan war and never thought one day we'd be going there on holiday. In 1991,…
Playa Bobina o Bobina beach, es prácticamente una playa virgen ubicada en la península de Istria, a unos 15-16 km al sur de Mošćenička Draga. Para llegar ahí,…
No idea whether they have become vacant as a result of the civil war or whether it is a never-finished construction project, but the fact that, rather…
So on August 14 I work on this diary, I organize the photos I already have in folders, and we enjoy the rain from under our covered terrace, where thanks to the…
And then… it rained and it kept raining. After the tremendous heat of the last two days, that did not hurt at all, but it is not an ideal day to finish the last…
But you actually have to take the motorboat or a kayak across the lake - and for renting a boat we arrived to late in the evening, while we didn’t bring our…
The latter, being very docile, is not something for nature in this region. And elsewhere undoubtedly, but as an “experienced” photographer you only learn one…
Makarska is one of the best-known tourist destinations on the Croatian coast that attracts visitors with its natural features and climate, diverse tourist…
In neighboring Hungary you have to search for things like that with a flashlight (except in Memento Park, near Budapest, where a number of those monuments are…
But we were on our way to Topolje (I mixed this post up with the former one: in case you were following the diary, you actually have to read this one before…
What also remains invisible is "a high monument of white stone with a female figure in bronze" that is "on one of the hills near Topolje", according to our…
But of course the curiosity too. So we take the car to the next fork and head towards Kneževo, because that is what the village appears to be called. We turn in…
Sometimes you have the impression that the villages described in tourist guides are not the villages you end up in. But sometimes you also end up in very…
Next stop: Karanac. Or better: ethno village Karanac. On the website of the Croatian tourist office I read that in recent years the "ethno village Karanac (...)…
And we continue to Darda. From that fortified city or large fortress an 8-kilometer footbridge once ran through the marshes to Osijek. Depending on the source…
Ante Starcevic may have thought so too. This "father of Croatia", politician and writer, founder of the Rights Party in 1861 and already a notorious opponent of…
In the upper town we then automatically arrive at the Peter and Paul Church. Because of its dimensions (90 meters high) it is often called "the cathedral", but…
Along the very beautiful Europska Avenija – one does not bite the hand … right? - with lots of buildings that, as far as we can see, mainly date from the…
While my girlfriend hangs around the entrance of the citadel after the walk along the river Drava, I walk via a fenced staircase to the top of the walls. Not…