Book ‘The Ascent of Mount Hum’ – A Croatian Cricketing Odyssey, written by Steven Haslemere is the eventful and often hilarious story of how Vis’ quiet Adriatic idyll was rudely shattered by the arrival of a rag-tag team of pub cricketers from Cambridge, who went intending to play the first cricket match on Vis in nearly two hundred years. Read the rest of this entry »
The village tourist estate Srce prirode (The Heart of Nature) has been opened in Gorica Lipnicka, a village located on about twenty kilometers from the town of Karlovac in Central Croatia. Read the rest of this entry »
ZAGREB: A CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY book by Celia Hawkesworth, Foreword by Sonia Wild Bićanić:
Situated at the foot of a range of hills on the edge of the great Pannonian Plain, for most of its history Zagreb has been a small town to which things happened. Administered from 1102 by Hungary and later absorbed into the Habsburg Monarchy, Zagreb was under threat from the advancing Ottomans until the late sixteenth century. In 1918 the Croatian lands joined their immediate South Slav neighbours in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later renamed Yugoslavia. Following Yugoslavia’s violent collapse, in 1991 Zagreb became the capital city of the new independent Croatia. Read the rest of this entry »
A meeting of the European Federation of Campingsite Organizations and Holiday Park Associations (EFCO and HP), an organization established in 1979 and bringing together around 25 thousand European campingsites and camp resorts, was held in Umag in late September. Read the rest of this entry »
Dubrovnik’s Villa Ragusa has been featured in In the Guardian’s Top 100 city tips, City guide- Places to stay. Here is an excerpt: Read the rest of this entry »
Here are some photos from last night’s illustrated lecture about The Underwater Archaeological Treasures of the Croatian Coast given by Dr Irena Radić Rossi from Hrvatski Restauratorski Zavod in Zagreb that was hold at the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in London, UK: Read the rest of this entry »