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We arrived around midday on Monday the 1st into Zagreb station. Practically running from the PDA spanish couples, we arrived at our hostel, just a 20 minute walk or so from the station. We were greeted by an extremely friendly plump woman, that despite her not speaking a word of English, we loved. She was a housekeeper of the apartment we were staying in, and had to get the English speaking owner on the phone to explain everything to us. She would also just ramble on in Croatian and then look at us and say "bravo bravo! Very good!". We were only staying one night in Zagreb, as the next night we planned on getting a night train to Split, on Croatia's Dalmatian coast. We headed back to the train station to book our beds on the train to find they were 30 pounds each. That was probably double what we would pay on a hostel. After much deliberation, we reluctantly paid the 60 pounds for the train and headed into the centre of Zagreb.
As a city, Zagreb is split roughly into two parts, the upper town, and the lower town. The lower housed all of the shops, apartments and businesses, whilst the upper was the older part, with the cathedral and st. Marks church. We wandered through the main square in the lower town and up through the Market, to a restaurant that served cheap pizzas. We then found a strip of bars just round the corner where there were two guys playing guitars. We did our usual hunt for the cheapest bar and stayed there for a good few hours. Feeling merry we then wandered back.
The next day we explored the upper town, first visiting the cathedral, where we sat on the fountain outside and had "Harry potter time". This admittedly rather sad activity involved me reading Harry potter to Fran. (we are currently half way through the first book). After a while we got too hot so decided to move on. We wandered up through the upper town, past st. Marks church with it's colourful roof, and to a viewpoint which looked out on the whole lower town.
We then stumbled across an intriguing museum called the museum of broken relationships. It was full of donated items from past relationships. We decided the fee of around 3 pounds was too steep, so settled instead for the cheap beer in it's cafe outside. The waiter serving us was a friendly australian, who offered to fill our water bottle and gave us lots of tips of what to do in Split. We stayed there for a few, then went back to the strip of bars for a few more before our late train to split.
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