Let 3, u Purgeraju

Couple of weeks ago, i went to see 'Let 3', a fabulous croatian band from Rijeka, to Purgeraj, in Zagreb with my friend (and the one that told me about this) Tomislav. They're playing for the last 23 years, cooking slowly in the socialism of Yugoslavia, a quick hit of heat during the 1991/95 serbo-croatian war and the final touch, 15 years of capitalism for proper rot.
Here is what Wikipedia says about them:

The band is popular in Croatia and other former Yugoslav republics due to their original approach to rock music and their obscene live performances. Sometimes provocative and vulgar lyrics and always shocking live performance with lots of nudity often polarise Croatian public. READ MORE

The importance of this event cannot be fully undestand if i don't mention the fact that -until that moment- all i was able to listen to in croatian music was some kind of dumb melodic love, brainwashing, luis miguelish oversweetness, depressing music. It's no my intention to offend anyone... but those were hard times.
I've recently posted a video of them.
Now the pictures, from beggining of the show to the end. Last to pics: me and the singer, and me and tomislav. Enjoy!












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ljubljana, slovenia

Couple of days ago, on Friday, we went to Ljubljana, capital city of Slovenia. We went out early in the morning, having slept 4hs or less, after a heavy drinking goodbye party on the fifth floor, the only one which rooms have balcony and only one bed -lucky bastards! The expedition team splitted in two, some went by car and others (included me) took the train. 2.30h and 3 or 4 passport checks later, we arrived to Ljubljana.
It's a beautiful city, slightly smaller than Zagreb, with mountains all around. In one of them, of course, there's a castle (ca. 1500). Not far from it runs Ljubljanica river, crossed by several very nice bridges. People seemed a little more relaxed than in Zagreb, not to mention the average height was 25cm less than zagrebians. A little bit more like home, despite the fact of having a whole ocean inbetween.
We were walking loosely for almost 8 straight hours, so we spent the last hours in a bar, drinking delicious beer for a change.














1. from the train, already in Slovenia.
2. me (photo session in train's bathroom).
3. in front of an art gallery, some post-sovietish exhibition inside.
4. At a park, near the art gallery (Justyna, from Poland, taking 5 pictures per second).
5. From the same park, looking to the castle on top of the hill.
6. Ljubljanica river.
7. From the castle, looking at the city.
8. From the castle, looking at the castle.
9. where are we?
10. the crew (everybody but Justyna, who took the picture). from left to right:

• Bogdan (Romania)
• Nikša (Croatia)
• Torbjørn (just Teddy) (Norway)
• Jigar (Singapur)
• Anikó (Hungary)
• Gaëlle (France)
• Pablo (Argentine)
• Miloš (Serbia)

Everytime i see the list of countries, i think 'english is a blessing'.
Hope you like the pictures!

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samobor

This weekend we went to Samobor, a little town 30km from Zagreb. After a whole week of cold, snow, mud, clouds, more cold and mud, sun raised with all his shiny power.
Those of we who survived last nights' latino & polish parties headed to this beautiful place, looking for the peace and time-off that Zagreb -with all it's bars, pubs, discos and friends- couldn't give us.












1. expedition team (from left to right):

• argentine, syria, croatia, chile, argentine, germany, argentine, france and romania.

2. just some colors ;)
3. walking throw the narrow streets of samobor, enjoying the sun VERY MUCH
4. while climbing, we saw this alert sign, but nobody knew what it said (our croatian translator preferred to stay at a coffe rather than coming with us to the mountains).
5. Stari Grad (ooooold city, ca. 13th century). Some croatians we found there told us the meaning of the sign:

"Watch out your head, stones might fall down".

6. some words of my good friend Bogdan.
7. my good friend Bogdan, from Romania.
8. where are we?

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zagreb, first impressions

1. panda bear, faculty's park
2. on the way to university
3. medvenica woods
4. from the residence window
5. cathedral's altar
6. on top of smjele, highest peak of medvenica mountains
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