Apr 4th, 2013 at 6:00PM:
I am partial to a good donkey photo. Something about their sweet eyes makes them instantly loveable, and their inherent goofiness is charming. Today's Photo of the Day caught my eye partially because of the subject, as well as the gorgeous landscape in Croatia behind him, but also because of the caption: "Staying Home." Flickr user mmusnjak explains the donkey was uninterested in joining a ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Photo Of The Day: Meeting A Local
Apr 4th, 2013 at 6:00PM:
I am partial to a good donkey photo. Something about their sweet eyes makes them instantly loveable, and their inherent goofiness is charming. Today's Photo of the Day caught my eye partially because of the subject, as well as the gorgeous landscape in Croatia behind him, but also because of the caption: "Staying Home." Flickr user mmusnjak explains the donkey was uninterested in joining a ...Exploring The Marvels Of Croatia's Modric Cave
Dec 26th, 2012 at 9:00AM: Twist your head to the right, your body to the left and wiggle through the crack, urged the guide leading us through Modric Cave in Croatia. Pretending I was a pretzel worked. After dragging my lagging left leg through a fissure between caverns, I re-lit my carbide miner's lamp and stood stunned by the beauty of crystals sparkling on the curvaceous stalactites. My husband, who was a spelunker in ...Adventure Meets Cruise Ship On Extreme Shore Excursions
Dec 7th, 2012 at 5:00PM: It's not often that we write about adventure travel and cruises in the same story. It's more like kayaking and Costa Rica, or cruises and buffets. But some extreme shore excursion offerings by a few cruise lines have raised the bar so high, others may not catch up for a good long while.
Forget the stuffy tour bus and all the challenges of moving 50 or 60 people at a time around an iconic ...Photo Of The Day: Silba
Sep 21st, 2012 at 5:00PM:
Silba is a tiny northern Dalmatian island close to the port city of Zadar, Croatia. The island sees its population boom in the summer, from a few hundred year-rounders to a few thousand seasonal sunshine seekers. Closed to passenger cars, Silba is one of many Croatian islands that could have been created to perfectly showcase summer in all of its glory.
This image, captured by Flickr user ...Video Of The Day: Woman 'Walks The Line' Between Two Speeding Trucks
Aug 20th, 2012 at 5:00PM:
On a deserted highway in Vrgorac, Croatia, Faith Dickey walks a slackline between two speeding trucks as they barrel toward a tunnel. Slacklining is an increasingly popular extreme sport developed by climbers in Yosemite Valley, California, in the 1970s and 1980s. It is similar to tightrope walking, but instead of walking on a taut steel cable slackliners make their way across a piece of ...
Photo Of The Day: Skradinski Buk
Aug 17th, 2012 at 7:00PM:
Skradinski Buk is a natural pool with waterfalls located in Krka National Park in Croatia's Dalmatia. The area of natural beauty is visually arresting enough to wrest seaside-focused tourists inland for a few hours. This fact by itself is really saying something, as the Dalmatian coast is exquisitely lovely in the summer.
This image was snapped by Flickr user mmusnjak, who has lots of other ...Six Great Mediterranean Cruise Ship Ports
Jul 25th, 2012 at 2:00PM:
Some of the best Mediterranean cruise ship ports appear on a variety of itineraries from several cruise lines. Traveling via cruise ship, vacationers are able to see six or more different ports on a seven- to 10-day sailing. That's covering a lot of ground quickly and efficiently, making a Mediterranean cruise one of the most intense of all sailings.
As if a new, different and exciting port ...Photo Of The Day: Coca Cola Everywhere
Jun 26th, 2012 at 6:00PM:
Like the golden arches, the green-backed mermaid and the swooping "Just Do It" check, the red and white Coca Cola logo is that ubiquitous symbol of American capitalism that's near impossible to escape abroad. Flickr user Kurt Schmidt captured today's Photo of the Day on the Cvjetni Trg in Zagreb, Croatia, achieving the vintage effect with the help of Instagram. He must have read our recent ...A Few Mediterranean Sidewalk Cafés Can Make Travel Personal
Jun 26th, 2012 at 4:00PM: In popular cities of the Mediterranean, mobs of tourists come by bus, train, air and cruise ship. Looking to see famous destinations with their own eyes, perhaps fulfilling lifelong dreams, they clamber for the best view. During the summer, many visitors point and shoot only the top of iconic destinations to avoid photos that include the herd. But on a recent trip to the Mediterranean, we found ...Photo of the Day: Spring comes to Croatia
Mar 13th, 2012 at 7:00PM:
Around the world, signs of spring are starting to appear. You smell it in the soft scent of pollen. You feel it in the positive energy emanating from people who have spent the winter in hibernation. And you see it in the tiny flower buds sprouting everywhere you look. Flickr user Gordan Renic perfectly captured the first signs of spring in Zagreb, Croatia, with this Photo of the Day, aptly ...Photo of the Day: Highlight of the show
Mar 10th, 2012 at 6:00PM:
This Photo of the Day, called Highlight of the Show, comes from Gadling Flickr Pool member mmusnjak. Captured using a Nikon D90, the photo is described as a "winter sunset near Zavižan hut in North Velebit, Croatia. The sunset was worth the three hour hike through the snow."
North Velebit National Park is a UNESCO biosphere reserve in Croatia known for its geomorphological phenomena - the ...Photo of the day: Croatian winter sunset
Mar 2nd, 2012 at 9:30PM:
Wow. Wintertime is awesome, even if not every Croatian winter sunset can be quite as breathtaking as this one. Flickr user mmusnjak captured this sunset in Croatia's Northern Velebit National Park in February. In his photo notes on Flickr he mentions casually that he hiked for three hours through snow to reach this point.
Let's see more winter photos on Gadling before the season yields to ...Souvenirs: Anatomy of a prized possession from the road
Feb 19th, 2012 at 9:00AM: Souvenirs are difficult for travel writers. We travel too often to be slapdash with souvenir selection, for one. Some frequent travelers focus on a particular thing: snow globes, pens, local magazines, liqueur, rugs, candy.
Others ignore the self entirely and redirect the impulse, choosing to make souvenir purchases for their friends, family, and neighbors.
Me? I like beach towels. I'm ...Video of the Day: Snow on the beach in Split, Croatia
Feb 6th, 2012 at 6:00PM:
Extreme cold and snow have gripped parts of Europe in ways that the continent has not experienced in years. The images of people struggling to cope with the elements are chilling (no pun intended). Even in Split, Croatia, a coastal town on the Adriatic Sea, snow has blanketed the beaches as temperatures have plunged nearly 30 degrees below average for this time of year. Seeing people walk ...
Island of adventure: Brac, Croatia
Jan 2nd, 2012 at 5:00PM: We're almost into a new year, so what better time to start planning for some new trips? While there are some great adventure destinations out there that have proven to be well-worth the journey, there are still some lesser known regions that have a lot to offer. One of these is the Island of Brac in Croatia, a region full of outdoor and adrenaline-pumping activities.
Hike up, or mountain bike ...Discovering the king of baristas in Croatia's caffeinated capital, Zagreb
Dec 19th, 2011 at 12:00PM: Coffee is an obsession in Croatia, and in its capital, Zagreb, the coffee culture is as strong and prevalent as the locally prepared žižule grappa. And the coffee itself? It would knock the non-fat foam off a Starbucks latte any day.
But it's not just about the flavor. Here, having coffee is as much of a social ritual as an essential kick-start to the day, and hours and hours are spent over a ...10 reasons to travel to Ljubljana
Dec 13th, 2011 at 9:00AM:
When I found cheap airfare from Istanbul to Ljubljana, I didn't find many other travelers who'd been there or even say for sure which country it's in. The tiny of country of Slovenia is slightly smaller than New Jersey and its capital city isn't known for much other than being difficult to spell and pronounce (say "lyoob-lyAH-nah"). After spending a few days there last month, I quickly fell ...The perfect Croatian island village: Okuklje, Mljet
Jul 12th, 2011 at 12:30PM:
Croatia's Adriatic islands are desperately beautiful. They span a significant geographic range, from Krk in the north right by Rijeka to the tiny Elaphiti islands in the south, just off Dubrovnik.
While every island has its charms, Mljet, an hour or so by catamaran from Dubrovnik, is extra special. It's heavily forested, with well over eighty percent of the island covered by beautiful ...European low-cost airlines fail to enforce charges and fees
Jul 7th, 2011 at 11:30AM:
Flying around Europe on low-cost airlines over the last few months has taught me a few things. Among the most useful lessons I've picked up: Baggage and check-in fees and charges are enforced quite unevenly.
European low-cost carriers present their customers with a frightening thicket of charges and fees. These charges, which serve as a revenue stream for the airlines, are less readily ...Lost travel friends
May 5th, 2011 at 1:45PM: Before Facebook--hell, before mobile telephones and email--it wasn't all that easy to keep in touch with people you might meet on the road.
You could exchange addresses and telephone numbers, of course, but by the time you were in a position to make a call or scribble a letter, the immediacy of the connection you'd shared while staying up all night on that Sardinian beach would probably be ...
