What’s new in the Old World - Europe Spring Preview  is a new travel article written by Rick Steves for San Francisco Chronicle in which he shares tips on what’s opened, what’s changed and how to save time and money enjoying it all.
This is what he says about Croatia:

I must admit that on my latest visit to Zagreb, I somehow got obsessed with overwhelming advertising attacks on my consumerism-non-adjusted soul.

Some 800 to 900 cruisers are to arrive in Dubrovnik this year carrying some 700,000 passengers.  This means that this year, if God forbid, there is rain in the peak tourism season we will experience ever more crowds than before.

The Dubrovnik Summer Festival is currently presenting multimedia project by Damil Kalogjera titled ‘The Sounds and Sights’ at the Institute of Middle-European Culture in Budapest.

Wizzair, the low cost airline that serves flights from London Luton to Zagreb has changed the current flights schedule to less convenient timing (see above).