So we've been in Croatia, in Zagreb for one month and today we're going to give
you an honest opinion on whether we think it's worth visiting the place
Hey everyone! I'm Ross and Bek right behind the camera over here so Bek's come up with
some pretty tricky questions she's gonna throw it down at me and extract the
truth. To help with the truth I have a Croatian beer as Osječko I don't know
crucify me in the comments if I got that wrong Osječko, anyway this is one of
the most popular beers. Truth serum there we go!
All right, Bek throw it at me what have you got? Is Zagreb underrated?
It is because people go to the coast there's an obsession of going to the
beach. I get it it's beautiful, so definitely do that
but don't skip out on Zagreb! It's an amazing place - people are amazing, the food is
fresh the quality of life. It's a really cool place to hang out for for a month
What are the people like?
Bok! Kvala! Dobar dan! Doviđenja! I don't know if I
just said those correct but that would get you in and out of the door politely
in Croatia the people always say that too when you meet them and the only trap
is then they want to speak Croatian too and last time I checked
I can't so English is easy, a lot of the younger people jump in in the market and
help you translate things so yeah it's really easy and you don't need to speak
the language to realize that they are amazing polite people
Favourite thing to do? Other than drink
beer at an affordable, good value price? One of the cool things in Croatia is the
quality of produce things like apricots and strawberries and just ridiculous
like they have never tasted so good to me
seafood and fresh meats in the butcher and just delicious and so affordable so
yeah that's one of my favorite things to do and just mingle in these local
markets get to know the people it's a lot of fun.
Sim it up in a few words. In a couple of words perfect
weather relaxed and livable totally liveable
without accommodation and living costs such great value that it really makes
the place easy you can go out and dine out on a budget eat some delicious food
have drinks it's just so cheap like it's a really cool spot to just buzz around
the city we suspect that Croatia is going to be
our most affordable and probably best value city that we've visited so far in Europe
why did we choose Zagreb? We're full time travelers and we're always
searching for great value destinations everywhere we go Croatia isn't in the
Schengen zone I think I said this right Schengen zone
and that means we can stay here for longer we don't have a time limit
like other spots in Europe also it's beautiful it's a beautiful place and
it's living up to our expectations so far
is the local wine or beer better? I kind of
like it all! Our Airbnb hosts, the father he he owns a winery somewhere and
he just dropped by can't speak a word of English knocks on the door and gives us
some of the local wine that he's made it's just delicious, but I'm going to go
with craft beer. The craft beers street I don't know what it's called, we'll put
it on the screen and that place is cool you can go get local beers that you
can't find anywhere else and yeah it's quite affordable too so beer wins it
craft beer wins it.
Best thing about the place? It's just so easy to live trans like nonstop trans and clean
streets nice people perfect weather just affordable like
it's just a good place.
Something weird
hmmm this is weird this might be something that they do everywhere in
Europe but a lot of the cafes and sort of bars that have seats outside you walk
past in the mornings at like 9:00 10:00 a.m. and there's a lot of I'd probably say
old men sitting around drinking carafes a wine sharing stories about what they
will or won't do that day and yeah it's just I don't know it's it's cool to see
the relaxed vibe but yeah it is a bit weird to see that early in the morning
I suspect that they have a nanna nap in the afternoon
worse thing about the place? Worst thing? The worst thing, it's probably my fault I
work online I work as an English teacher on the Internet and Saturday and Sundays
that's when I work so when I knock off on a Sunday I get ants in my pants I
want to go to see the city and it's in shutdown it's a very ghostly place on a
Sunday. Understand why but yeah it's just very quiet there's like nothing open
nothing to go see and do so Sunday's afternoons a little bit boring
Favourite food and why?
Oh, for me, seafood it is a hundred percent calamari fresh white bait squeeze of lemon
how did you get around by using the feet we just walked kind of
everywhere but trams are very easy then non-stop and they just take you to all
little parts of the city that you need to go to so trams are awesome there's no
trains here Uber is pretty cheap too we caught a couple of Ubers and maybe
20- Kunas , yeah cheap as.
Any other hot tips? Hot tips, wear some Sun cream it can get hot here, the
other one is go to the local butchers and check out the cured meats actually
all of their meat it's fresh like as good quality as you could imagine when
it comes to me and that was a pleasant surprise to us
we got an awesome kitchen you know Airbnb and you know it was just fun
experimenting with with different produce
internet speeds before we booked
our Airbnb we always message through and get them to run a speed test on the
Internet and like we've never really had an issue so far except for one time in
Athens but it's fast here they promised it to be a certain speed and actually
it's a bit faster than that so yeah really really quick internet like 50 60
megabits per second
Is it worth it? it's great value, incredible value probably the best
value from a quality of life to what we had to spend you know when you put those
two together Croatia delivers in spades it's probably
as good or better than we've had anywhere else yes it's worth it's worth
visiting visit I love it just do what you need to do come here and book some
tickets a really cool place so that's our honest opinion in it Croatia in
Zagreb if you enjoyed it please hit the thumbs up and hit the subscribe button
and we will see you very soon bye these soon guys we'll see you soon
bye oh and the currency is Kunas
it's actually one Kuna but if you have more than one Kuna because one
Kuna's not worth very much two kunas is more than one