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March 14th, 2022 - Fans of retro technology have the opportunity to try out old computers and consoles in Dubrovnik until the end of the month Last Saturday, Rijeka’s Peek&Poke Computer Museum opened a visiting exhibition in Dubrovnik, more precisely at the Youth Center, where all those interested can discover about twenty vintage computers, gaming consoles, calculators and mechanical calculators. The opening of the exhibition attracted curious people of all generations who were delighted by the display, writes Novi list. The exhibition will remain open until March 27th. ’We’re thankful for the invitation of the Dubrovnik Association of Technical Culture,…

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 14, 2022 - What if some of Croatia's best and most authentic experiences were made more accessible?  Join the CROMADS Travel Club at this year's Ston Oyster Festival.  Croatia is a unique place in many ways. But one of the things I have come to appreciate over the years is just how many incredible (and incredibly local) things there are to do in this country, many of which are hardly known outside the local area.  We would like to change that, and to make the very best of those experiences more available to expats, digital nomads, and yes, locals…

March 14, 2022 -  At the beginning of March, about 20 hotels in Central Dalmatia were currently for sale. A closer look at the hotels on offer from Split to Brač and Omiš.   Hotels make up a small percentage of the Croatian real estate market and, unlike residential properties, do not arouse the general public's interest. The exceptions are, of course, significant transactions, such as when Eagle Hills Zagreb Real Estate bought a 70 percent stake in Sunce Hoteli, owned by Jako Andabak's family. However, this does not mean that this part of the market is not attractive, both in…

14 March 2022 - President Zoran Milanović said on Monday that Croatia should invest more in its air defence system, after a Soviet-era unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) had flown in from Ukraine and crashed in Zagreb last week. "The investigation into the nature of the UAV that crashed in Croatia is in progress and I would not discuss details. I call on others who address the media on this matter every 15 minutes not to do so either, because they should not have been at the crash site on Saturday," Milanović, who also serves as Commander in Chief of the…

14 March 2022 - If the present demographic trend continues, the share of Europeans in the world will fall from the present six per cent to four per cent, European Commission Vice-President for Demography Dubravka Šuica told Hina in Strasbourg where she attended a conference on the future of Europe in the European Parliament this weekend. "If the present trend of our births and deaths continues, Europe will represent only four per cent of the world population, which is worrying," Šuica said, noting that specific measures for demographic renewal fall within the competence of member states. Although she mostly deals with…

March 14, 2022 - The community is growing as Digital Nomad We{dn}esdays expands to 8 cities all over Croatia. Small steps, but every month, one step forward.  Croatia's digital nomad story has been one of rapid progress, from being only the second country in Europe to offer a digital nomad visa at the beginning of last year, to being named as the second most-like country for nomads in the influential NomadList survey just 9 months later (with Zagreb as the fifth most-liked city).  Nomadbase, the first business and travel club for digital nomads, has chosen Primosten, Croatia as only its…

March the 14th, 2022 - With the Russian invasion of Ukraine having occurred just over two weeks ago now, Croatia has well and truly stepped up when it comes to handling the ongoing refugee crisis as people flee the war-torn Eastern European country. The Osijek-based Slavonian heart for Ukrainian families action plan is just one praiseworthy initiative. As Novac/Jutarnji/Nikola Patkovic writes, just over two weeks have passed since the beginning of the Russian invasion of neighbouring Ukraine, and quite a significant number of people from this war-torn country have fled in the Ukrainian refugee crisis to Osijek-Baranja County in Eastern Croatia.…

March 14, 2022 - The Dubrovnik digital nomad story continues, as the Work. Place. Culture. Conference is announced, bringing work from anywhere to absolutely everywhere.  Good things are happening in the Pearl of the Adriatic.  A new initiative to reposition the iconic Croatian city, known also to millions as Kings Landing, is already paying handsome dividends.  A media poster child for overtourism back in 2017, Dubrovnik is now attracting headlines for very different reasons. Dubrovnik's decision to explore the remote work path has propelled itself into an increasingly popular digital nomad destination. In partnership with Saltwater Nomads and Total Croatia…

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…