Simple Day

Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2016--Zagreb


We slept late this morning.  Then we took our time eating breakfast and getting ready to go out.   For breakfast, we had fried onions and potatoes, a fried egg, bread with cheese, bread with salami, muesli with yogurt and milk, juice, and coffee.  It was 11:00 before we left the apartment.

We walked out to Maksimir Park about 20 minutes east of our apartment.  It's a large park built in the 1800s with huge trees, lots of trails, playgrounds, an amphitheater, etc.  A corner of it houses the Zagreb Zoo.  We went to the zoo only to find that much of it was closed for remodeling and repaving.  We saw a few animals, though, and the entire reptile/insect/rodent house which also included some birds was open.  It was quite nice, and we probably enjoyed it more than we usually would since we took our time going through it with no other exhibits to see.

Back at the park afterward, we wandered more trails.  Then I took a short nap on a bench while Wes walked around a lake a couple of times.  We watched some men exercising, we walked by the stadium across the street, and then we returned home.

During the afternoon, I upgraded my computer to the latest version of Ubuntu while we watched various Olympic sports (swimming events, rugby, and sailing) on the T V.  Eventually, we briefly went down the street to buy donar kebabs and brought them back to the apartment where we drank the local Ozujsko beer while eating the kebabs.

We returned to the center of town in the evening.  We watched people in a park, then we stopped for ice cream at Vincek's, a place that is old and always has a line of people.  Finally, we heard another concert where we went last night.  Tonight, it was two men singing a variety of folk songs including a number of Simon and Garfunkel hits.  We returned home early so that we could get to bed earlier than usual.  Tomorrow will be a day trip out of town.