Zagreb

Next stop in my euro trip was Zagreb, the capital of Croatia. An oversight on my part was not knowing that Croatia is actually not part of the EU. Zagreb is one of the weirdest cities I've ever been to. It was completely dead when we got there, mind you it was 40 degrees, plus there is literally nothing to do there. So we promptly decided to go to the plitvice lakes which is about 2 hours outside of the city.



Buses in Croatia are very interesting they assume you know where your stop is and there is no need to mention any of the stops over the loud speaker. So of course we got off a stop late 15km away from the lakes. Not a problem I thought just catch the next bus or at worse just get a cab there. Well we went into a local hotel and they inform us there wasn't a bus till the afternoon and that because it was a small town there were no cabs. So we were effectively stranded in this town. The only thing I could think of was to hitch-hike hoping hitch-hiking isn't as bad as it is in Australia. Thankfully it didn't come to that and we got a ride with someone in the hotel bar that the receptionist organised. Once we got to the lakes it was one of the most incredible places I've seen. Also we had found where all the people had got to. Supposedly they get an average of 10,000 tourist a day at the lakes.

Next stop Budapest.