Day4 🇭🇷 part “Croatia - Zagreb”

4th day today and it’s time to chill a bit!
Lampros started his day early by going out for a run in Zagreb. I waited in the room, got some snoozes and sorted my stuff out for the day. When Lampros got back, we checked out, left our bags in the car and headed off into town. We had some breakfast from a local bakery and walked around for some souvenirs and a few last spots we had left from yesterday. Shoutout to our friend Martina for recommending a super little cafe “Melt” for breakfast - we tried the pesto toast and coffees and juice. On our way to an underground passage called Grič (it was made in the Second World War as a bomb shelter) I spotted a small colourful pattern on the ground and got super excited to recognise it!
There is a French artist called Ememem (he/she is anonymous) and he/she patches cracks in pavements with small pieces of tile like a mosaic. The process is called “flacking”. He/she also creates everything at night, I suppose to remain his/her anonymity and so everyone discovers it in the morning. Close to the spot, Zagreb has a a fortified tower called the Grič cannon (Croatian: Grički top). Since 1 January 1877, the cannon is fired from the tower on Grič to mark midday. The cannon was to give the sign for exact noon for-the bell-ringers of the city's churches. We were under it a couple of minutes before midday so waited for it to fire - it made a huge noise and it scared me in the beginning. 😂
When we got back to the car, we drove to the Mirogoj cemetery - a huuuuuuuge cemetery with beautiful walls and tombstones. It was around 13:30 by then, so we thought we would fill up with petrol and start our journey to Slovenia. Part 2!Read more