Naše putovanje u Hrvatsku | Our trip to Croatia

 We are here in Zagreb, as I've indicated we would be.  But I did not account for the jetlag keeping me from finding time to record our experiences.  To bring you up to speed, I'll post several missives all on one date.  The title will indicate which day we did what. Next post:  Wednesday, June 29: Bopping around Zagreb

After a relatively uneventful American Airlines flight to London, we were confronted with one of the worst transfer and security clusterfucks we've ever experienced. Getting from terminal 3 to terminal 5 required several vigorous sprints to suddenly intransigent massive queues. Busses weren't running directly from the terminal as advertised. So we walked, I swear, over a mile just to get to the stupid busses. Very little signage, and a lot of dumb guesses. The only upside was a chance conversation in the terminal bus with a geriatric red-nosed man who chatted me up because I was wearing my "Slava Ukraini" shirt. Turns out he's an ethnic Hungarian who fought in the '56 uprising and went into exile in the US, where he's lived (in California and Oregon) since that time. When he mentioned he was going to visit Debrecen, I responded in Hungarian "Debrecenben voltam. Tanultam magyarul." He was blown away. So then I got my history nerd on, and we ended ...

It's Sunday.  Still up at the house.  We're getting our things together before we head down to the city. (God, I hope I find decent parking for the next 2 1/2 weeks.)   We're trying to keep it as light as possible so that we don't check any bags.  The prognosis for our flight departure remains, ahem, up in the air.  A line of thunderstorms is headed our way Monday.  If you have any last-minute suggestions, please send them our way! Next post:   Never flying through Heathrow again.  [June 28, 2022]

Quick trip to Kingston for haircuts at our favorite steampunk barber, Pugsly's. Next post:  Obligatory day-before packing picture  [June 26, 2022]

 Google Earth map of our vacay I created a Google Earth "fly over" to help you visualize all the places where we will stay and make excursions to.  Click this link here to access the flyover. Next post:  Pre-trip haircuts in Kingston  [June 25, 2022]

 Getting ready! We're up at the house this weekend before our flight, getting our travel gear together.  Tige (me) took the car in for service this morning, and Steven did a small shop for our weekend needs. I'm somewhat concerned about the flight on Monday out of JFK.  If the impending thunderstorms expected all day weren't anxiety inducing enough, in Europe as in the US, airlines have been canceling flights left and right largely because of pandemic understaffing.   My anxiety is also compounded by the mess at Heathrow right now.  Not only are the airlines and security desks understaffed, but the pilot's union at British Airways just voted yesterday to go on strike. (Not sure when that's supposed to happen, but our flight from London to Zagreb is supposed to be carried by BA.)  Breathe.... Next post:    Where we're going...  [June 24, 2022]