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<\/p>\nAfter leaving Serbia with a fistful of dinars, we caught an efficient German train heading to Salzburg, via Zagreb.\u00a0 This piece of wealthy engineering had air-conditioning and odourless compartments.\u00a0 If that wasn’t an indication that we were heading West from here, I don’t know what else would have been.<\/p>\n
Dozing on the train, ever fearful that we might end up somewhere we’d rather not go to (yeah, we’re still smarting from the Slovakia incident…), we pulled up at Zagreb’s main station.\u00a0 Helpfully, the directions from the main station, where there was a rather large advert for our chosen hostel, included a rather cryptic instruction to get a tram to Slavonska and “follow the yellow feet”.<\/p>\n
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As it turns out, these yellow feet were a Wizard of Oz-style path to follow to our accommodation.\u00a0 With a huge Croatian flag draped over the exterior, we were welcomed by a buxom Croat lass who instructed us to hold tight for a bit while her elderly workman friend welded some railings together.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The usual routine of paying and handing over passports took second place in our minds while we were contemplating what the huge signs saying “FREE BEER” meant, while totally ignoring what seemed like an endless list of “Rules” displayed on an adjacent board.\u00a0 As students, we have to get our priorities straight.\u00a0 Actually, it was exactly as described – turn up between 6.30 and 9.30 in reception and get a free beer.\u00a0 Ice cold.\u00a0 Awesome.<\/p>\n
So it was a little cramped, there was no kitchen, and we met some girls from Streatham (I’ll leave you to decide on where that fits in), but it was clean and there was free beer.<\/p>\n
Suitably sated, we headed into downtown via another tram we didnt pay for.\u00a0 Of note, Budapest has been the only city not to operate a trust-based punch-in-punch-out ticketing system.\u00a0 Simply put, it means that apart from Hungary, we haven’t paid a penny (or bani, or lei…) for public transport.<\/p>\n
Finding a very well-recommended Italian restaurant, we settled in to some posh nosh, failed to find an exciting bar (as is our custom) and came home, where our sixth dorm member was asleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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