It’s the coldest it’s ever been, said Andrea as she was showing us to our apartment in the…
Times visited: 2
Cities visited: Pula and Zagreb
Villages visited: Premantura, Banjole and Medulin
I’ve been to Croatia twice – first on a summer holiday with my family in 2013, and then again for a brief winter visit with my mum in February 2018.
Our first trip took us to the Istria Peninsula, where we spent a week in a small village near Pula. When we weren’t sunbathing (which, for me, mostly meant being bored 😅), we were out exploring. We visited Pula’s stunning Roman amphitheater, hunted for dinosaur footprints, wandered through charming little villages, and even took a day trip across the sea to Venice!
Five years later, my mum and I were figuring out the cheapest way to get to Slovenia when we found an irresistible deal: budget flights to Zagreb, Croatia’s capital. With just a 2,5-hour bus ride to Ljubljana, it was the perfect plan – we’d save money and get to see a new city on the way.
We only had an afternoon and one night in Zagreb, but we absolutely loved it. As luck would have it, we arrived on the coldest day of the year, and the city was blanketed in snow. It felt completely magical – like we’d stepped into a snow globe version of Zagreb.