Zagreb
I’m currently in Zagreb, Croatia on business, attending a conference about OpenFOAM, a cool toolkit/library to do CFD and other finite volume physics.
The city strikes me as similar to the southern French style, architecturally. I think it looks a lot like Toulouse, but with a hint of Italian.
Its also very, very cold and I’m hoping that I haven’t come down with some sort of illness, because I feel terrible. It might just be dehydration, since the Croatians don’t seem to drink water. Very strong coffee and soft drinks, but not water.
Also, they seem to have trouble with the idea of vegetarianism, but that didn’t really surprise me. Most mediterranean cultures seem to see meat at the “centre” of the meal, so eating nothing but vegetables probably seems very odd from their point-of-view…
However, the (very opulent) hotel has free WiFi, so its not all bad 
1 comment January 26th, 2006