{"id":102,"date":"2015-09-06T00:05:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T00:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europeinpictures.com\/croatia-bosnia-trip-report\/?page_id=102"},"modified":"2017-07-12T06:15:52","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T06:15:52","slug":"samobor-croatia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.europeinpictures.com\/croatia-bosnia-trip-report\/samobor-croatia","title":{"rendered":"Samobor, Croatia"},"content":{"rendered":"

I headed north toward Zagreb, where I was flying out the following afternoon. I had already visited Zagreb in 2009 and didn’t feel a need for a return visit. The little town of Samobor nearby was an easy, low stress choice alternative. I’d heard Samobor was a nice town \u2013 why not?<\/p>\n

There are only two hotels in Samobor proper. I pulled up to the cheaper one, the Hotel Lavica, which wasn’t busy, and got a cheap room.<\/p>\n

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Lavica Hotel, Samobor<\/p><\/div>\n

I decided to shoot for one more Italian dinner and found an Italian restaurant called Pizzeria Napoli about a ten minute walk from the hotel. It gave me a chance to walk through town.<\/p>\n

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The meal was OK \u2013 probably better than another take-away pizza. On the walk back stopped at cafe that specializes in kremsnita, a kind of custard cake Samobor is known for (similar to what you find in Bled, Slovenia ), and took a piece back to the hotel for dessert.<\/p>\n

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A tray of Kremsnita<\/p><\/div>\n

I didn’t hang around Samobor long to see much more than the tiny town center where I was staying. I understand locals enjoy hiking in the area, but I of course didn’t do any of that. It seems like a cute little town \u2013 much less busy than Zagreb for sure.<\/p>\n

With a few hours to kill the final day before my flight out of Zagreb, I attempted to find a well-known cemetery in Zagreb and wander around for a few minutes, but the neighborhood was too busy and I couldn’t even find a parking place, so I gave up and headed toward the airport.<\/p>\n

I had to return my rental car to Oryx at the Zagreb airport. Because of my little incident in Dubrovnik that caused me to switch cars, I needed a little extra time at the airport to sign for damages (and later submit a claim to my American Express Premium Rental Car Insurance \u2013 as of this writing, they are still trying to resolve my laim, months later). The line at the Oryx desk inside Zagreb airport was 45 minutes long!!! Thank goodness I arrived early. None of the other rental car companies seemed to have anyone waiting.<\/p>\n

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