Thursday, August 25- Zagreb

We began the day with a 2-hour orientation walk.  I realized how much Ron and I had missed while traveling on our own; we always enjoyed wandering around at random but sometimes didn’t know the history of what we were seeing.  I was glad we’d toured the Cathedral on our visit, though; this time it was closed for repairs.  There was still remaining damage from a 5.6 earthquake in April, 2020 , which probably didn’t get attention from the rest of the world since COVID was in all the headlines.

The main square.

After lunch we were free to go off on our own.  I went out wandering again, and visited the Museum of Broken Relationships, I’d heard about it on a BBC podcast and it’s world-famous.  I expected it to be mostly cynical but found a lot of profound observations, some stories about loss through death, and a few that were funny.  One woman had broken up with a guy who was never satisfied with her appearance.  She sent a book he’d given her as a gift: “I Can Make you Thin”.

And of course I had to get the refrigerator magnet.