It felt really pleasant to start sightseeing very early in the morning (6AM). Before sunrise, people at the Dolac market have started putting up their stalls, while I was sipping on my coffee trying to recover from a dizzy spell probably attributed to lack of sleep and malnutrition. I took a few sunrise photos at the cathedral then I walked around on Zagreb's quiet streets only disturbed by the occasional ringing of the early tram bells and pigeon coos. I enjoyed myself here, though I haven't visited any museums (apparently there's loads, and I should've at least visited the Museum of Broken Dreams- there's a reason to go back). Why I went to Maksimir…I don't know. But at some point I ended up there. There's supposed to be a huge park with beautiful lakes and such, and I haven't found any of it. So I went back to Zagreb and loitered around the train station for an hour or so, people-watching. I'm a bit sad that I haven't found the statue of Nikola Tesla. But there's a lot to see. The opera house looks nice, with a park around it oozing a pleasant atmosphere. I like the blue trams, they remind me of similar ones that I have seen about ten years ago in Montpellier. There are some old looking oak trees scattered around the centre. I think Zagreb is anything but dull and boring. Everywhere I looked was a potential photo: three nuns disappearing at the street corner, pigeon gathering on Ban Jelacic square (Jelacic, who was instrumental in putting an end to the 1848 Hungarian revolution…hmmm…interesting fact…the statue used to point its sword menacingly towards the direction of Hungary till 1990, when the statue was turned southwards), fishmongers, the smell of fresh vegetables, a man playing a recorder at a bus station, the mismatched chairs of a restaurant, 1970's lamps, the cathedral early morning, the streets of Kaptol and Gradec in Gornji Grad…and so on. A lovely day spent in the Croatian capital, and it was time to move on. So I hopped on a train to Ljubjana.
