Our buddy Josip Jelačić

I hate jet lag.

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July 2nd 2008
So, somewhere in the middle of the night, we finished crossing the Hotlantic and ended up at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. I have always wanted to go to Paris and was even decent enough in French to win the French award in high school, but once I started taking Russian, it rudely shoved the French out the other side of my head. (Much like the Russians are doing in Georgia, but I dig ... read more

Europe » Croatia » Central Croatia » Zagreb

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The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a feder... ... read more