We were pushing to be ready to leave by 1000, and had negotiated that we could leave our bags behind and pick them up later (rather than lugging them around the place in the heat) .
We headed off to the Red History Museum to have a look as it had been highly recommended. From the cheery welcome and explanation to the very end, this was an interesting and positive experience.
It was probably so good for us because we had spent our time in the previous two weeks travelling through the former Yugoslavia, and hearing all the stories. So this museum that showed what it was like to live in the former Soviet Yugoslavia was the final piece of the puzzle being slid into place.
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| Trevor trying out the hands-on experience in a Yugo made Yugo |
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| Good map showing the countries that made up Yugoslavia. |
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| essential reading... |
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| the stats for 1948 in Croatia from the Census. Because of this poor state of affairs the people accepted Communism as a way to forge a new future. Unfortunately the photo is hard to read. 71.4% of men and 61% of women had no education past primary school. 15.6 % of the population were illiterate In Dalmatia there were 11000 people per doctor - only 450/ doctor in Zagreb Life expectancy 48 years (men) and 53 years (women) |
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| Remembered all the reasons why I hate playing chess - Trev looks happy for a reason. |
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| Soviet phone (red of course) |
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| One of the best explanations of why the Soviet Yugoslavia failed. |
We decided to have lunch at the local cafe (Provo) near our lodgings one last time, and while we waited for them to take way too long to deliver our order I went up the hill one last time to retrieve our bags. Mato kindly assisted me to bring them down the hill to the cafe, where they sat while we ate our lunch hurriedly.
The rapid walk to the bus station had us drenched in sweat again. We arrived in plenty of time as it turned out, and had to wait for our bus to arrive (about 5min before it was due to leave)
The trip to the airport is quite long, so it takes about half an hour to get there.
We arrived in plenty of time for our flight. due to the fact that we had a choice of a bus at 1440 or one at 1555 which was going to be unworkable to get there 2 hours before our booked 1755 flight.
As it turned out, our flight on Croatia Airlines was delayed, and we had plenty of time to use the last of our Croatian cash to drink wine and relax. This was quite a large airport with very little happening.
And so , we said goodbye to Croatia and headed for Germany on the first leg of our long trip home.
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