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14 March 2022 - Maybe you’re looking for something that’s not available locally, or perhaps the pandemic has changed the way you shop. Regardless, online stores have made purchasing more accessible, faster and at times, even more affordable compared to their brick and mortar counterparts. But how is online shopping in Croatia? Read on to find out more. Let me rip the proverbial band-aid off first. Unfortunately American online shopping giant, Amazon, does not currently have a presence in Croatia (yet?). Whether this is advantageous or not, is highly debatable.  While you can still order from Amazon’s main site, the…

March the 14th, 2022 - With inflation continuing on its global upward trajectory and with the Croatian Government set to put its inflation-curbing measures into place only on the 1st of April, Croatian fuel prices will likely shoot up once again tomorrow. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, yet another very unwelcome new increase in Croatian fuel prices is expected from Tuesday the 15th of March. As it turns out, that fuel price leap will stand at about one kuna and 60 lipa, meaning that a litre of petrol would rise to 13 kuna and 79 lipa, and diesel to 14 kuna and…

March the 14th, 2022 - Some changes are coming to Zagreb's ZET public transport system owing to global logistics chains and there will be some alterations in the timetable as a result. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, as of today (Monday the 14th of March) ZET will be introducing a new timetable for the capital city's means of public transport that will reduce the number of departures on most tram lines and thirteen bus lines. To be more precise, all of the current tram lines except 1, 5, 8 and 15 will be running less often. Line 4 will, for example,…

ZAGREB, 13 March 2022 - The 11th edition of Book Night, the national event promoting reading and books, will take place on 22-25 April, coinciding with World Book and Copyright Day (23 April) and Croatian Book Day (22 April), the organisers announced earlier this week. The focus of this year's event will be on "books as a space of freedom". This year marks two important anniversaries - the 400th anniversary of the birth of French playwright Molière, who found his space of freedom in farce and comedy, using them as a vehicle for a critique of the society of his time, and…

March 13, 2022 - Croatian drivers were responsible for more than 1 billion kuna in fines for traffic violations in just 12 months last year. Although there is a decrease in the total number of drivers cited, there is an increase in those who violate the rules for driving under the influence. More precisely, if we managed to collect all these fines, we would receive 1,133,906,000 kuna for the state budget only from violations caught by police cameras and radars, or from cases in which traffic police officers found drivers violating traffic rules, reports Večernji List. This amount does not include offenses that…

March 13, 2022 - A young Japanese ballerina in Rijeka has already taken the stage in many HNK Ivan pl. Zajc Rijeka performances. Meet Soyoka Iwata, who swapped Tokyo for Rijeka to launch her professional career.  Everyone who follows the ballet performances of the HNK Ivan pl. Zajc Rijeka could notice a young ballerina from Japan. Her name is Soyoka Iwata, and she has performed in "Lace" and "The Rite of Spring" by Maša Kolar, "Nutcracker" by Mauro de Candia, "Odyssey" by Walter Matteini, and "Pathetic" by Douglas Lee. She will perform again on March 16 in "Mediterranean Trilogy: Pulcinella & Afternoon of a…

March the 13th, 2022 - The concessionaire of Zagreb International Airport (Dr. Franjo Tudjman Airport) has introduced a total ban on taking videos and/or photos at the Croatian border itself. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the concessionaire of Zagreb International Airport, MZLZ d.d., confirmed the above for avioradar, which covers all things related to aviation in not only the Republic of Croatia but the entire wider region. "Regarding your request [for this information], we are able to inform you that through its internal channels and to all of the necessary addresses, on Tuesday, March the 8th, 2022, Zagreb International Airport forwarded…

March the 13th, 2022 - Hrvatski Telekom/Croatian Telecom (HT) and Nokia were among the first in the entire world to test advanced 25G PON optical technology in the HT Rijeka lab. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, this is the latest generation of optical network, which increases the speed of download and transmission to unprecedented levels, and with this test, the Rijeka lab measured a speed of 20 gigabits per second. 25G PON technology is otherwise ten times faster than GPON technology, which was enabled by HT for the first time with gigabit broadband access back in 2007, then again but two…

March the 13th, 2022 - An online publication has detailed the ongoing process of the Rijeka military fortification renovation project which is set to breathe new life into these old and often neglected structures. As Morski writes, in order to transform the slowly deteriorating cultural heritage in Rijeka, as well as lead its transformation for the purpose of cultural tourism, the cross-border project ''Revival'' was launched, as part of which the old Rijeka military fortification was restored. The Revival project was implemented within the INTERREG VA Italy-Croatia Cross-Border Cooperation Programme 2014-2020, which aims to revitalise and placed back into use…

March 12, 2022 - After a two-year break, the 26th GAST international fair returns for restaurant owners, hotels and family hotels, small renters, and caterers from all over Dalmatia. After two pandemic years, GAST returns to Split's Spaladium Arena for its 26th edition, reports Slobodna Dalmacija.  The International Fair GAST 2022, which takes place from March 16 to 19, is the best place to prepare for the tourist season. Namely, GAST gathers the target audience, such as restaurant owners, hotels and family hotels, small renters, and caterers from all over Dalmatia. "We have more than 600 exhibitors, co-exhibitors and brands,…