September 20 to 21, 2013 - Travel from Houston to Zagreb, Croatia

We left Houston to Zagreb, Croatia via Frankfurt. After a long oversea flight, we had to rush from Z terminal to A terminal to catch the connecting flight to Zagreb. The delay of Lufthansa flight due to the weather condition in Houston put us in a no win situation to catch the connecting flight. Friendly Planet provided a 50 minutes layover for the connecting flight and we came to find out we needed at least 2 hours in the huge Frankfurt airport. We were lucky to see the local driver at Zagreb airport who was supposed to pick up other groups of Friendly Planet’s travelers. However, he was nice enough to pick us up and drove us to the hotel. We stayed at Palace Hotel which is located in the Zagreb Lower Town area.

We met our guide Zvonko who speaks fluent English at the hotel. There was a welcome dinner at the hotel where we met our traveling companions. We had 11 American, 6 Austrians and 2 Dutch in the group. The dinner was nice and we had a chance to chat with Zvonko and got a lot of good info regarding Croatia's history and culture.