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Monthly Archives: October 2016
A visit to Kumrovec or Tito-ing the line – part 2
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Military Service. When we left Josip Broz at the end of the previous post, he had completed his locksmithing apprenticeship, joined the Metal Workers’ Union, and the Social-Democratic Party of Croatia and Slavonia. Then, at age 21, he was conscripted …
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A visit to Kumrovec or Tito-ing the line
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Before we set off to visit the birthplace of Josip Broz who ruled Yugoslavia for more than three decades under his better-known moniker of Tito, our group will make a brief and previously unplanned stop in Zagreb. I hinted at …
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Reaching into a big Zagreb bag of things to do – part 3
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The previous post left us standing at the Stone Gate which is where our tour ended, more or less. However, if you recall, I mentioned in the first of these Zagreb bag posts that Damir had asked our guide to …
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Reaching into a great big Zagreb bag of things to do – part 2
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One and the same. Now that the planetary diversion is over, I’ll return to the walking tour. Our next stop is the Cathedral found in the Kaptol section which dates from 1094 and is the oldest part of the city. …
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Reaching into a big Zagreb bag of things to do
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As we did in Dubrovnik and Sarajevo, we started our first day in Zagreb with a local guide who took us on a walking tour of the city. We began in the Donji Grad or Lower Town and finished in the …
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