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<\/a><\/p>\nStrolling along through the place I could see why folks would come here.\u00a0 It was a little odd seeing roasted nuts sold just outside the graveyard gates.<\/p>\n I kept singing to myself as I walked:<\/p>\n Take me out to the graveyard. ***<\/p>\n There\u2019s apparently a fort called Medvedgard that has spectacular views of the city and the surrounding landscape.\u00a0 When I google mapped it, it was a couple of kilometers from the cemetery so I figured I\u2019d walk it.\u00a0 I got to the spot and only then realized there\u2019s a difference between MEDVEDGARD and Medvedgard Castle.\u00a0 It\u2019s the castle I wanted to see \u2013 and it was another 6 KM up a windy road.\u00a0 It\u2019s nestled halfway up the mountain in fact and I thought maybe I wouldn\u2019t go up there the day before a marathon.\u00a0 I figure I\u2019ll do a full hike up on Monday as a recovery ploy.\u00a0 But it just goes to show that even when I think I\u2019m right, I\u2019m often wrong.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n I approached Crkva sv. Marka<\/em> or St. Mark\u2019s Church from the wrong side.\u00a0 I apparently came at it from the rear and thus couldn\u2019t understand what all the fuss was about.\u00a0 It was a nice church, sure.\u00a0 But people had been fawning over it since the 1300s.\u00a0 Hell, Little Europe had a diorama of it for crying out loud.<\/p>\n It was only after I circled around to the front that I saw the multi-colored tiled roof that elicits \u201coohs\u201d and \u201caahs.\u201d\u00a0 The Croatian, Dalmatian and Slavonian Coats-of-Arms are displayed on the roof, as is the Zagreb City Emblem.\u00a0 Unfortunately, a slew of natural disasters mean little of the original building from the 14th<\/sup> Century is still there but it\u2019s the thought that counts.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Zagreb features a Funicular that\u2019s steep but not all that far.\u00a0 I was too cheap to pay the 4 HKR to ride the thing and thought why not just take the stairs.\u00a0 Considering the wait time to actually send the cars up or down the slope, I think it was faster to hoof it anyway.\u00a0 Still, neat to see this sorta Angels Flight style city convenience.\u00a0 And honestly, perhaps after the marathon or really even before the marathon, that ride up or down the hill might be totally worth the 63 cents American.<\/p>\n The Stone Gate is an original piece from 1266 and today serves as \u201cthe most significant oath site in Zagreb.\u201d \u00a0The history is kinda fascinating and I\u2019ll just post a link to it here as I\u2019m too lazy to summarize it<\/a>.\u00a0 I\u2019ve run into all kinds of trouble uploading photos and thus am taking a lot of liberties and shortcuts to just get this up so I can drift off to an excessive food intake coma before tomorrow\u2019s late-ish marathon.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Zagreba\u010dka katedrala<\/em> or The Cathedral of Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is as most Zagreb guide books and guides will tell you , seemingly perpetually under reconstruction.\u00a0 I always find the printed banners of famous places hung over the scaffolding to give an approximation of what the thing looks like.\u00a0 Why not just embrace that there\u2019s scaffolding?\u00a0 Does that paper print out really fool anybody?\u00a0 I guess it\u2019s nice to see what it\u2019s kinda, sorta supposed to look like.\u00a0 But it all feels so fake.\u00a0 Why not just take a photo in front of a photo?<\/p>\n Built in the late 1200s, the twin spires are visible almost always throughout Zagreb.\u00a0 Plus, unlike St. Mark\u2019s, they didn\u2019t charge a ticket fee or \u201cdonation\u201d to get inside and look around.<\/p>\n Say, I’m a former Catholic.\u00a0 Is this a thing?\u00a0 Do they do “baseball cards” for MVP church figures where you collect their card from their home “field?”\u00a0 Is that what’s happening here?<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n Finally, here are a few shots of my walkabout Zagreb\u2026 complete with a few snarky comments just because.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I assume the streets were too narrow to have cars park on both sides… so they just have them park partially on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n I thought this guy looked more like a latter day Orson Welles or Marlon Brando.\u00a0 Geniuses all, so no disparagement.\u00a0 It’s actually a statue for one of the great Croatian writers, Miroslav Krleza.\u00a0 He wrote “On the Edge of Reason” which I’ve heard of but never read.<\/p>\n This is what I had for lunch.\u00a0 Pizza from the Fries Factory.\u00a0 But ya know what?\u00a0 Really good pizza at the factory.<\/p>\n I would’ve thought the Museum of Torture and the Museum of Broken Relationships would be the same thing.\u00a0 ZING!\u00a0 Note: There’s a Museum of Broken Relationships that opened in Hollywood a few months back that I run past when I’m in town there.\u00a0 This is the original.\u00a0 It’s a small world.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I think Willie Nelson has the same name for his “garden.”<\/p>\n And my favorite Croatian — Nikola Tesla.<\/p>\n This has been a letdown of a post.\u00a0 Zagreb really is a lovely place and the people have all been friendly\u2026 except for that one guy in his car at the cemetery who reversed and nearly ran me over, making me a permanent guest of that haunted hillside.\u00a0 Other than that guy, though, lovely people.<\/p>\n The drinks are a bit pricey.\u00a0 But maybe that\u2019s because I ordered some fru-fru cocktail.\u00a0 I\u2019d call it a mocktail as though it promised vodka it felt like the weakest fruity Kool-Aid drink ever.<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> \u00a0<\/a><\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n
\nTake me out to the graves!
\nBuy me some roasted nuts and rue.
\nI don\u2019t care if we ever come back alive\u2026
\nSo it\u2019s root, root, root
\nfor the dead team.
\nIf they don\u2019t rise they aren\u2019t zombies.
\nAahh.
\nFor it\u2019s one,
\nTwo,
\nThree strikes you\u2019re dead
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