Lifestyle
Sunday, 24 July 2022
Postira Seaside Film Festival to Take Place on Brač Island on 26-31 July
ZAGREB, 24 July 2022 - The southern island of Brač will host the Postira Seaside Film Festival (PSFF) for the 12th time on 26-31 July, featuring the best world and domestic shorts, organisers said earlier this week. Foreign films will be shown over the first two nights, including Denmark's Oscar-nominated "On my mind" by Martin Strange-Hansen, "Silence" by 2018 PSFF winner TJ O'Grady-Peyton, and "Pops" by 2017 PSFF winner Lewis Rose. Domestic shorts include Andrija Tomić's "Bulky Waste", Marko Šantić's "Marko", Filip Antonio Lizatović's "Carpe Diem", which won the best Croatian short at the recent Mediterranean Film Festival Split, and Marko Dugonjić's "A Moving Target". Films vying for the…
Sunday, 24 July 2022
20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 14. Vukovar
July 24, 2022 - Twenty years a foreigner in Croatia. Part 14 of 20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years - one of the most emotive topics in Croatia, Vukovar. I am a firm believer that even if you live for 20 years in a country, you will never understand it fully, and there are some topics that you will never have enough authority to write about. Things are so often not the way they seem on the surface, and a critical local audience (and Boy, how quickly I am reminded when I get something wrong...) will always have…
Sunday, 24 July 2022
Safe Sailing 2022 Action Sees 400,000 Kuna in Fines Issued
July the 24th, 2022 - The Safe Sailing 2022 action which was carried on on Friday along the country's coastline has resulted in an enormous 400,000 kuna in fines being issued. As Morski writes, officers from all captains' offices within the framework of the Safe Sailing 2022 action (campaign) carried out 438 inspections, on the basis of which they found 172 violations of regulations and charged violators over 400,000 kuna in fines. The Safe Sailing 2022 action involves the enhanced supervision of navigation safety, which was held on Friday, July the 22nd, from 10:00 to 18:00 in the areas covered by…
Sunday, 24 July 2022
Porec Drainage Offering People Purified Water Free of Charge
July the 24th, 2022 - Istria recently introduced measures to limit the use of drinking water in the area, and now the Porec drainage company is offering people their purified water for free. As Morski writes, after Istria introduced a reduction in the use of drinking water across Istria County, municipalities and cities are all looking for ways to provide residents with water for activities that aren't allowed during the reduction period, such as watering green areas or washing the roads and streets. Due to the emergency situation involving the water supply, the Porec drainage company would like to informs…
Saturday, 23 July 2022
Foreign Service Institute Ranks Difficulty of Learning Croatian Language
July the 23rd, 2022 - The Foreign Service Institute has ranked the world's most difficult languages to learn, but just where does the Croatian language sit on the list? Many people struggle endlessly with it, many native Croatian speakers also get quite confused with certain rules, oh, and not to mention the sheer amount of dialects there are... Try putting someone from Brac and someone from Zagorje in the same room alone together and see how they manage. The Croatian language is, for most people, extremely difficult. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the FSI ranking system consists of five categories, ranked…
Saturday, 23 July 2022
Choose a Bike Project Reaches Trogir, New Trogir Bike Paths Coming
July the 23rd, 2022 - The Choose a Bike!/Biraj Biciklu! project has reached yet another coastal Dalmatian city - Trogir. Some new Trogir bike paths are set to be arranged as part of the project which is rapidly spreading and resulting in much needed environmental change. As Morski writes, as part of the wider European Union (EU) project "Choose a Bike!", the first system of public bikes in Trogir was presented recently on the Trogir waterfront near the Kamerlengo tower. There are three terminals with ten electric and ten classic bicycles, and work on the first of the Trogir bike paths…
Saturday, 23 July 2022
Love Croatian Brunch? Zagreb Declared Second Best Brunch City in Europe
July the 23rd, 2022 - Do you love a good, hearty Croatian brunch? If marendas, as they're commonly referred to here, are your thing, then Zagreb is the place to come to. This city has just been voted the second best European city for brunch. As Ana Blaskovic/Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the Croatian capital has been ranked as one of the top cities in Europe this summer for a good brunch. The City of Zagreb was crowned the second best city for eating brunch, or as we call it, marenda, a meal that falls somewhere between breakfast and lunch, with a score…
Friday, 22 July 2022
20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 13. Dalmatian Wikipedia, The Bench
July 23, 2022 - Twenty years a foreigner in Croatia. Part 13 of 20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years - an ode to one of the icons of Dalmatian life, and some say the original Google. One of my favourite obsessions - the bench! When you live full-time on a Dalmatian island, the off-season can be a bit of a challenge for entertainment. Indeed, it can be hard to meet anyone at all in winter - all restaurants in Jelsa were closed, as were many of the cafes, and the bura kept all but the hardiest of fat…
Friday, 22 July 2022
HP Issues Postage Stamp with Motif of Pelješac Bridge
ZAGREB, 22 July 2022 - A postage stamp with the motif of the Pelješac Bridge will be put into circulation on Tuesday, 26 July, when the bridge is expected to be formally inaugurated, Croatian Post (HP) said on Friday. The Hrvatska Pošta plans to issue 60,000 copies. The designer of the stamp is Dean Roksandić who has used a photo of the bridge taken by Dubrovnik photographer Mario Babarović as the basis for his design. For more, check out our lifestyle section.
Friday, 22 July 2022
Safe Sailing 2022 Campaign to Begin on Croatian Adriatic Today
July the 22nd, 2022 - The Safe Sailing 2022 campaign/action is kicking off today in part of the Croatian Adriatic Sea as the height of the summer tourist season takes a firm hold on the coast. As Morski writes, the Safe Sailing 2022 campaign, which is an action involving the enhanced monitoring of navigation safety across the croatian Adriatic Sea, will be held today, Friday, July the 22nd, starting at 10:00, in the area of all port authorities along the entire Croatian coast. The planned duration of the action is until 18:00 that same day. The Safe Sailing 2022 campaign will…
Friday, 22 July 2022
Croatian Agriculture Ministry to Help Fire-Stricken Sibenik-Knin County
July the 22nd, 2022 - Fire-stricken Sibenik-Knin County is set to get help set out in special measures introduced and activated by the Croatian Agriculture Ministry to rebuild what was lost to the flames. As Morski writes, the Minister of Agriculture, Marija Vuckovic, visited the fire-stricken areas spanning Sibenik-Knin County this week, where she announced that aid for these areas from the Croatian Agriculture Ministry was set to come. A large number of OPG (family farm) owners in Sibenik-Knin County suffered enormous damage and losses from the recent wildfire that consumed more than three thousand hectares of land in Zaton, Raslina…
