A Venezuelan's guide to being perpetually lost in translation, from the Dalmatian coast to the Zagreb fog.
"Wait, so 'Pomalo' means everything and nothing at the same time?"
— Zadar, October 2021
Discover the wild history of Maksimir Park in Zagreb — from Habsburg conspiracies and unfinished Enlightenment dreams to a 600-year-old oak tree scientists are cloning. This is not your average park guide.
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Zagreb transforms into a Christmas movie every winter. From glowing tunnels to hot gin on rooftops, here is why Advent in Zagreb lives up to the hype.
A word that means one thing in Spanish and something very different in Croatian.
The moment I realized Croatian "baka" sounds exactly like Spanish "vaca" (cow), family introductions got a lot more interesting. A linguistic adventure in accidental insults.