Brian and I celebrate the winter holidays mainly by acknowledging just how very fortunate we already are. (So, lovely family members reading this, please don’t feel the need to buy us any gifts. We’d ask this even if we weren’t planning on carrying around our worldly possessions on our backs for the next year and eight months.)
Dolac Market
Zagreb has an amazing daily market with produce, cheese, meat, pasta, baked goods, pickled foods, and even specialty items like tofu and seitan.
Unexpected Food Distributing Machines Thus Far
Pasta: Florence, Italy
Milk: Zagreb, Croatia
Zagreb Puppet Theater
We’re never quite sure how experiences that require lots of sitting will go with our two year old. This one went well. Even though the hour-long performance of Bambi was entirely in Croatian, Theo was still asking for more at the end.
Snow
Since we’re headed to somewhat warmer climates for the rest of the winter (Turkey and then Cyprus), we were excited to get a dose of snow before we left Croatia, even if it has made exploring Zagreb a bit more shivery.
One Fish, Two Fish
The last few apartments we’ve stayed in have been rented to us by people with young children or grandchildren, so they came with an assortment of borrowed toys. This apartment, not so much. However, as I’ve written before, whether something was intended to be a toy seems to matter very little.
Meta Graffiti
Happy New Year!
Last night, to avoid having to stay up until midnight, we celebrated Mecca’s New Year at 10 pm. However, I woke up again at the Croatian midnight to the sound of fireworks and cheers.
We’ve been traveling for almost five months now, and it somehow feels both like we just left California and like we’ve always been traveling. Zagreb has been a lovely place to finish up 2014, and we’re looking forward to a year filled with travel, adventure, and many homes.
Zagreb: What We Enjoyed the Most
We really enjoyed Zagreb, and in my mind it contends with Lyon as the most livable place we’ve stayed thus far: lots of activities within easy walking distances and really good food (and coffee).
How Planes Work
