I have a confession to make I've actually lied to you
maybe not so much a lie
it's not a lie if you believe it
but I promised that I would be doing this vlog all the way through Croatia as I'm
running my tour but I just haven't been able to do it I've just over committed
it's just so much work I'm running the tour I'm spending some time with my
daughter just so many other things to do it's really really tricky for me to do
it so what I might do is at the end of the trip I might put together a little
montage I have done however a little little movie or video showing you a
little bit of Zagreb which was at the start of the tour so let's go back in
time to
429
oh nice
so here I am in the Esplanade hotel I love this hotel it was one of
the original stops of the Orient Express anyone that's anyone has stayed here
Anthony Quinn, Orson Welles, Woody Allen, Jane Seymour, Prince Charles, it goes on
and on and on and then of course there's my group and myself just to continue
that tradition.
I always feel like King Julian out of Madagascar when I stay here
bring me my nuts on a silver platter
I'll take it down for breakfast in a minute show you where we have breakfast
and yeah it's just just pure luxury love it. We'll pop out catch a tram I'll take it
to a couple of galleries. If I get a chance I'll do a little watercolor
sketch and just give you a little little view of Zagreb.
let's go.
above me you'll
see all these clocks and just above me right there.
There's one that tells me what
time it is in Sydney.
I don't know why they haven't got Yackandandah.
I think it should be Yackandandah rather than Sydney.
Maybe I'll change it,
but,
I'm just about to go off for breakfast you want to come come on
pretty crowded
pretty crowded tram now
just walking in Zagreb on the way to take to the funicular it's the shortest
funicular in the world according to the Guinness Book of Records and we're gonna
go for a ride on it
it's pretty fast
exciting stuff
basically what happens here is behind me
up on this up in the tower there there's a cannon and every midday they shoot
that cannon and the whole town kind of sets their watch according to this
cannon and it's pretty loud and I'm actually really really nervous about
when it's going to go off because I just feel like I'm going to jump and it
scares the hell out of me every single time I hear it even though I've heard it
so many times.
In fact I feel like blocking my ears
and there's people around me ....
I think it's the anticipation that makes me nervous
Sh*#
yep did it again ..phew..
and that frightens me every single time.
now you can hear the bells ringing
so everybody's now sitting their
watch to 12 o'clock.
Whew... I'll tell you what, lucky I haven't got a pacemaker.
alright let's get out of here.
here we are what I think is the best
Museum in Zagreb it's called the Museum of broken relationships it's really
interesting quite unique. If you are ever here check it out
or better still come with me and I'll show you.
So let's go in and have a look
really interesting concept.
There's such a mix of things in this museum.
It'll make you laugh it'll make it cry it's very eclectic.
Let me just show you one.
It says "A Florida lake where I skipped school with my boyfreind.
The arrow indicates the spot where
I first saw a penis in sunshine"
Quite funny I thought
Now I'm gonna take you to the Museum of naive art
I'm just gonna take you inside to show you my favorite picture of all, it's a beauty.
It's called Goitery Jana
check it out I like the cat too
and this one's quite good - it's called
cross-eyed Steve my neighbor
Have a look and see if you can work out why it's called that
something about all this work that I really like
the simplicity of it the naivety of it I guess
the fact that it really
depicts their life. yeah I like it
I've also got a bit of a problem. I've got a dilemma
artistic crisis if you like.
The problem is that not that I'm not inspired to paint in Croatia
I've done plenty of paintings
but I'm just trying to think of another way to do it rather
than the standard street scenes
The same old pictures you see everyone doing
I see them on Instagram not just of
Croatia, but everywhere.
As you can see from the video that I just showed you
the demo I did in Zagreb just a sketch
but you know there's nothing unique about it.
It's the same old thing.
I've got to come up with a more creative way
way of seeing it the way of designing it
something, I don't know I've got to I've got to sit down
and do some deep thinking about this
do you call it artistic block I don't know.
I'm sure you've been here before
but it just basically means that
and because of time
I'm not going to be doing paintings as such here
so you won't be seeing any more paintings.
I may be concentrating on photography for paintings
it's just the fact that it's just the fact that I've got to try
and get into the zone become a bit more creative
and see what evolves
maybe nothing will
I'm gonna check out this town of split and
I've just got to point out these Roman centurions
on the right hand side
check them out and I'm just
gonna use that line out of Monty Python
What have the Romans ever done for us?
this is it it's amazing alright so let's check out split and
I'll catch you later
before you go let me show you the really
cool entrance to our hotel
There's plenty of other things I could show you in Split
that'll be in the final video possibly but
but let me just show you this bit
this is the third century wall of the diocletian palace, an amazing
place and split but I love the sneaky little entrance to our hotel
let me show come here
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