The other stop was at one of eight National Parks\u2014a stunning alpine like At least we\u2019re off the highways, and onto the boat, a smallish one with about 50 passengers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" July 27, 2013 Split from Zagreb\u2014splitting to Split We left Zagreb early this morning to make the 300 mile trip to our boat, anchored in the harbor at Split, Croatia\u2019s second largest city.\u00a0 Split is located in Dalmatia, an area as different from northern Croatia as night is from day.\u00a0 Along the coast of the … Continue reading “We Split to Split”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eastern-mediterranean-2013"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3005"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8358,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3005\/revisions\/8358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/files\/2013\/07\/DSC09919.jpg\")
<\/a>On the way, we made two interesting stops.\u00a0 One was in a \u201cMilitary Border Area.\u201d\u00a0 Once a border between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottomans, with a fort built for the purpose that turned the area into an important military center even after the Turkish threat faded, the area figured prominently in what young Croats call \u201cThe Homeland War.\u201d\u00a0 When Yugoslavia collapsed in 1991, the Serbian-dominated army started a four year war to create an enlarged Serbia; Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence.\u00a0 Four years and 20,000 deaths later, the United States helped bring about peace in the area which resulted in the independence of the former Yugoslav states.\u00a0 The war museum we visited was mostly weapons from the period, but a reminder of the recent troubled history of the area. (Not to mention the Second World War, when the Germans created a puppet Croatia that was very pro-Nazi).<\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a>series of lakes and waterfalls with brilliant turquoise water\u2014lots of fish clearly visible, and wall-to-wall people.\u00a0 It was both a Saturday and the beginning of European \u201choliday\u201d season.\u00a0\u00a0 With a sweltering heat wave in Europe, it\u2019s no wonder many people are heading to the beaches, a lot of them going where we\u2019re sailing after tomorrow.<\/p>\n