Croatia Travel Blog

Zagreb is all ready to welcome Sting who will wind up his 2009 tour on February 11 in the Croatian capital. Does that seem strange? It shouldn’t. Sting will be touring with Croatian lute player Edin Karamazov who is, brace yourselves, Sting’s lute teacher. Together the duo have been exploring the works of 16th-century English lute composer, John Dowland. Sting has promised to display his lute-playing skills during the course of the tour and in Zagreb.

The concert will be held at Zagreb’s Vatroslav Lisinki hall. Tickets will soon be available for online purchase.

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Yes you can eat well in Zadar but who knew you could eat so much? On 22 November, you can pig out on a giant apple strudel cooked up by  Renato Kraljev, chef of Kornat, one of Zadar’s best restaurants. This 900-metre-long pastry will stretch the length of central Kalelarga street from St Simeon’s Church to the Church of Our Lady of Health. With one thousand kilograms of apples and 300 kilograms of strudel pastry, there should be enough for even the most avid appetites. Local groups will provide a musical accompaniment to the strudel-fest.

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Tennis fans in Istria should make a beeline up to the coastal town of Umag, where the Croatia Open is taking place. Anyone with the remotest interest in tennis has noticed that Croatia churns out top players with awesome regularity. Many of them are now playing on the clay courts of Umag, including Ivan Ljubicic and Ivo Karlic. Other top-ranked players on the courts this year include last year’s winner, Carlos Moya plus clay-courters Guillermo Canas, Fernando Verdaso and Nicolas Massu.

For more information and tickets, see the Croatia Open Umag site.  For accommodation and visitor information, see my Umag Travel Guide.

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Technically it’s the Croatia Boat Show but this annual event is so linked with Split, it’s impossible to separate the two. Anyway, the boat show opened on April 5 and will run through April 13. Continue Reading »

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If it’s Fat Tuesday it must be the end of the spectacular Rijeka Carnival. Beginning on January 17, most Carnival festivities officially ended on February 3 with the final lowering of the Carnival flag. But it was a wild few weeks. Each year the Rijeka Carnival induces some 10,000 people to don costumes and parade the streets alongside 100 Carnival floats.  There’s a Children’s Parade, and International Parade, masked balls and a prestigious Carnival party not to mention the famous Rijeka Bell Ringers. Naturally, the ever-lively Rijeka nightlife reaches fever pitch until the whole extravaganza ends with the Burning of the Pust. And now it’s all over until next year.

Read more about the  Rijeka Carnival and other sights to see in Rijeka. 

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