We were up around 07:00 and went down to the breakfast buffet, and…turned around and went back upstairs. The hordes of tour groups were overwhelming. At 08:00 the crowd had thinned out and we were able to get near the buffet. It was a good spread, but I should have insisted they let us have room service at no charge given the crazy crowds and the number of tour groups all scheduled to leave at 07:30.

We left after breakfast and walked to the funicular, which we took up to old town.



There's an interesting shrine right near the entrance to Old Town.



Statue near the entrance to Old Town.


We first visited the Museum of Broken Relationships which is a small, funky museum and hard to explain. It’s definitely worth a visit.




We went to a café and grabbed a coffee while we waited for everything else to open up. Next was The Museum of Naive Art, which had some interesting works by country farmers and peasants from Croatia.





We spent some time shopping in old town and walked down to the Dolac Market and the cathedral.





I found some GoT souvenirs for my kids at a funky store that were cheaper than in Dubrovnik/Split.



We stopped for a drink and snack at a cute little bar/café as the heat started to become unbearable. While it was only around 90F, it felt hotter than that in the concrete jungle.




I bought some strawberries from the market and brought them back to the hotel where we snacked on them and cooled off. Once we were back in the A/C, it was hard to get motivated to get back out.

We went back to Gallo for dinner and had the same waiter. We got a giant whole fish baked in salt. He gave us a second bottle of wine, which was nice and I used the last of my Czech Kuna toward our last dinner.





We really enjoyed Zagreb despite the heat and it provided a nice contrast to the Dalmatian coast.

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