A visit to Kumrovec or Tito-ing the line – part 2

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 …

A visit to Kumrovec or Tito-ing the line

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 …

Reaching into a big Zagreb bag of things to do – part 3

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 …