11 Photos That Will Make You Want To Visit Croatia Right Now
“CROATIA WILL ALWAYS BE THERE.” The phrase was simple, but its timing was profound. The words were said to me by a random traveler sharing a carriage with me on an early train from Zagreb to Ljubljana. I was retreating, dejected from the Croatian capital. I’d spent close to one week in a basement level hostel, without having so much as set eyes on the country’s famed coastline. End of season timetables had made internal transport and ferry timetables intermittent, and when I shared this disappointment on the fellow traveler sharing a carriage with me, his sincere words offered me comfort. Though at the time, I had little idea when, or if, I’d ever return.
Two years later, a succession of spontaneous decisions had brought me to the small Slovenian town of Piran. Early one morning I boarded a bus south, with the words of the anonymous traveler running through my head. As we wound our way along the snaking coastal road, the toothless driver smiled over his shoulder: “Passports please,” he said. “We’re approaching the Croatian border.”