Our apartment was about 6km from Rijeka itself. We each bought a one week bus pass for HRK 96, which was a good deal since we would only need to take four round trips to break even.
We took several day trips to the city center to eat and explore. Rijeka is a port town, and parts of the city were somewhat gritty, but it had a lived in charm. The city center itself wasn’t large, but it had a lot of walking streets with outdoor cafes. It is a pleasant city, with a number of traffic free streets and lots of open air cafes. I was surprised to not see evidence of overt poverty, which, sadly, is a common sight nowadays in the United States. Additional research revealed that Croatia's Gini Coefficient is a respectable 0.29.
For whatever reason, Jeff thought that the birds in Rijeka were especially insouciant. This quickly became a running gag where we would try try to spot any birds we thought were particularly insouciant.
CroatiaPrimorsko-Goranska ŽupanijaRijeka45°19’39” N 14°26’30” E
CroatiaPrimorsko-Goranska ŽupanijaRijeka45°19’39” N 14°26’30” E