833. Zagreb Part 2 | Last Day & Museum of Broken Relationships

Another month has flown by and already our time in Croatia is coming to an end. Tomorrow we will leave for Spain (to my boyfriend's hometown of La Coruna). This month went by really fast. I guess because we were quite busy here and managed to take a few staycations away (Rovinj, Split, Dubrovnik, Mostar, Plitvice..all of which I will post about eventually lol). I really enjoyed Zagreb more than I thought I would and will miss it. I admit that before we came, I thought it would kind of a boring city. It was good to have our base here. I really enjoyed Croatia overall and the side trips were a lot of fun. We also got pretty nice weather. So next month we will be in Spain and going to do a side trip to Luxembourg to visit my friend which I'm very excited about!

Zagreb has a lot of quirky museums. The most famous is the Museum of Broken Relationships. It was so packed when we went there on a random Monday. It's such a unique concept and at first I was sceptical about it but I actually really enjoyed it. The museum displays various items sent in by people who have experienced a broken relationship - items from the relationship that they kept. Each piece is accompanied by a short story about it. Mostly they are romantic relationships but there's a section for family broken relationships (death). Some stories were funny and some were sad.

This is a set of mini furniture sent in from a girl in Korea. Her and her boyfriend would imagine the kind of house they would have in the future and made mini furniture pieces. Unfortunately they broke up before getting a chance to paint them.

This one and the following ones are pretty sad..

There's a lot more objects but I won't post them all. I highly recommend a visit if you're ever in Zagreb!

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832. Dubrovnik Part 1 | Around the Old Town

Last weekend we took a trip to Dubrovnik, Split and also across the border to Mostar. Dubrovnik was a place that has always been on my bucket list. I really loved it there but I think I was more impressed by Rovinj. Probably because I've always wanted to visit Dubrovnik and had very high expectations. I did still enjoy it a lot though, especially at night when the place comes alive. We took a day trip to Mostar as well (in Bosnia) and had to do a COVID rapid test in order to enter the country, then to return back to Croatia. It was a bit of a hassle and endless border crossings, but worth it. I will talk more about that in a future post. Then on the way back to Zagreb, we stopped in Split for a night. Split is another very popular destination around here but I didn't find it to be anything special. If I didn't visit Dubrovnik first (and other more beautiful coastal cities), I think I would have really loved Split. But I would have been fine with not visiting it. It's still a nice place but I found it too touristy and not really beautiful.

Anyways, we stayed in Dubrovnik for 3 nights. I would have liked to spend more time there to just relax and explore more of the surrounding areas. Here are some random photos walking around the old town.

We went to this restaurant. It was a great spot at the end of the main street.

I got the seafood risotto. It was sooo good and contained a LOT of seafood.

I was very shocked to see this woman had the same shoes as me! The colourful ones on the left. They are by United Nude. I bought a pair in Bangkok a few months ago. I've never seen people with the same shoes as me before lol (well the more unique shoes that I own)



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