{"id":2232,"date":"2018-05-11T14:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/180511-another-day\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T18:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T22:52:14","slug":"180511-another-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/180511-another-day\/","title":{"rendered":"180511-Another Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

I rode across the capital of Croatia at night. The streets still rumbled with trams, their tracks covering the city’s streets. I arrived uneventfully at the hostel, low on calories. The hostel rocked to the sounds of drunk tourists in the bar playing trivia. I resigned myself to a restless night and relocating in the morning.<\/p>\n

The crowd was boisterous but friendly. Most of them left for a pub crawl at 11:00 pm; in the ensuing quiet I talked with a number of people late into the night. One staff member suggested Medvedgrad, a castle normally a two-hour walk north of town, which I could reach more readily by bicycle. My bed is 4 floors from the bar; I had a great night’s sleep.<\/p>\n

I packed my tools. The amount of time to get there? Two hours. Just north of Zagreb are the Zagreb Mountains. I cycled to the edge of Zagreb, and then … I walked. And walked. I could see the fortress from kilometers away, perched atop the mountains. Even unloaded, I walked almost the entire way there, the last kilometer over steep cobblestones. Medvedgrad looked great from the outside, but the interior was mid-renovation, looking more a construction site than castle. The ride back to Zagreb took 20 minutes.\n<\/p>\n

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I spent the remainder of the day walking the city, the huge cathedral of particular note. Restoration entails replacing and recarving the cathedral, stone by stone. There is a lot to do, but all in all Zagreb left me disappointed; Ljubljana all the more spectacular in contrast.\n<\/p>\n

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Reviewing my maps further, and the results of queries on Facebook about crossing the Bosnian border, I plan to cycle 100+ km tomorrow along the Sava, then route east or south one day to cross the border. The path tomorrow isn’t as clean as yesterday. I hope to make an early start of it so I can take my time.<\/p>\n

The eastern route should have better odds of a successful crossing, but crosses the entirety of Bosnia, with some question of places to stay depending on the distances I cover while climbing into the heart of the Dinaric Alps.<\/p>\n

For now I hang out in the hostel common area, watching people try to win a free night’s stay at beer pong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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