After a couple of days of my stay in Plitvice. I decided to use a private car service to get to Zagreb instead of taking the bus. In Croatia people travel by bus through the county or train but trains are not accesable through some citites. This is why bus is the best way to travel throught he country and ferry as well. I was so grateful to meet that kind woman who works at the hotel in Plitvice, since she can get me a private car. It was a big success to get to know people. It made my trip special and even better to get around the country easier. I could not explain enoug how painful it was for me to travel by bus during the summer here in Croatia. It was just hard... somehow I was lucky to meet this kind lady who hooked me up for a private car so we arranged the schedule for a car to pick me up from Plitive to Zagreb. I had such a comfort ride. It was comfy and driver was very kind. He also made a stop at a little town for me to take some pictures. I wished I know about this town before I came to Croatia. It was a very interesting place so hopefully I will have a chance to visit this town again  when I decided to visit Croatia next time. After a couple hours ride than I arrived at Zagreb. The capital city of Croatia. 

 Zagreb was a beautiful town. I love the old town area where bars and restaurants are all around. I also love the fresh market where I found some of the beutiful flowers, fresh fruites, veggies and some of the local food. It was well worth visiting for a couple day trip. I feel like traveling to Zagreb was a combination of city tour, cultural and culinary horizons. I had one of the best meals of the trip in Zagreb. I found a great restaurant while walking around the city, Bistro Karlo.  At Bistro Karlo I experienced the best goose foie gras of my life. It was delicious! One more thing that I have to mention about restaurant here. They take it very seriously and it is part of Croatian food culture which is olives oil. Most of great restaurant here serve six to eight different bottle of croatian olives oil on the table. They are very proud of their high quality olives oil, at Bistro Karlo. I have tried one of the best olives oil I ever had and it cost around 30 euros but that what they serve on the table here with home made bread.Even the waiter was so sweet.Girls keep an eye out for the waiters here – they are great, one of them wanted to show me a great bar in town but in the end I was so tired that night I didn't give him a chance to show me – oh well, but I had a great time and enjoy great food and a new experienced of olives oil tasting.

 Zagreb is great for museum, food and drinks but I am not a big fan of museum, somehow I did visit the Museum of Broken Relationship. There are some stuff that people donated to the museum and share their love stories so well maybe you can donate some of your stuff that had a story between you and your ex to this museum then..., after I was walking tour around old town area I than hit off to a cafe for launch. I started my appertizer with a couple shots of Rakia. The Rakia or Rachiu is an alcoholic beverage that is produced by distilation of fermented fruit. It is a popular beverage throughout the Balkans, here in Croatia - Rakia is most likely homemade alcohol and home-produced rakia can be stronger (typically 50% to 60%). Rakia is prevalently accepted and considered to be а national drink of CroatiaAlbania, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Montenegrop and Serbia. I have to tell you that Rakia here is super duper delicious. I wished I could get some of them back home and one thing I learnt about Rakia here. I went to many restaurants and bars but they seem to carried the differents selections of rakia list since most of rakias are homemade with difference types of herbs and fruit like berries, herbs, honey and so on, so that I could not get the same taste of rakia from differents bars somehow Rakia was a big memory of my tirp in Croatia. I remember that most of the restaurants have different type of name of their great local liquors but they are all great. I spent most of the day eating and trying different types of flavors.I totally love it!

The other amazing thing that I really love about the city here was that I could enjoy the black truffle! Yes! Pasta and black truffle. I can not resist eating them for lunch and dinner. I love the homemade pasta with black truffle. I also love the olive oil tasting. Croatia is so serious about their high quality olive oil. This was my first time of olive oil tasting. The server served me different types of olive oil on the table and also pour an olive oil for me. He tole me that one of the olive oil I was tasting cost bout 30 euros. It was interesting to experienced their culinary. The balck truffle, rakia, olive oil were the best thing I have had here. I had a wonderful time here while I could sit back and zipped on a glass of the most delicate homemade liquors like Rakia! I just could not get enough of it. I can say from my experiences from traveling around the world that Croatian is excellent on their domestic drinks, olive oil and their truffle. 

 After two weeks in Croatia and eating a lot of seafood, truffle and drinking quite a bit of the local brandy. It was time to fly home to NYC.  At the end I realize I just love to be back home in NYC. The itinerary I pulled together for the trip to Croatia really made me feel like I saw so much of what Croatia has to offer – what a great trip and a great feeling of having done it on my own – yet again.  From traveling by bus to ferry and then road trip, I saw the geography, met great people, ate a lot of extraordinary local food and I finally saw Plitvice Lake National Park.  I completed yet another of my dream destinations.