


Experience blindness and type some Braille at Zagreb’s Typhlological Museum (Zagreb, Croatia)
I thought it was a typo on the sign at first, to be honest. How ironic, I thought, that the sign for the Typological Museum would have a typo in it. It’s not a typo, though — derived from typhlos (‘blind’) and logos (‘thought’ or ‘reason’), the Typhlological Museum...
At this museum of mushrooms, what can kill you is just a few centimeters away (Zagreb, Croatia)
Yep — you read that right, a mushroom museum. Call it Muzej gljiva if you prefer using the Croatian name, and think of it as an education center. This collection exists thanks to the hard work of Dr. Romano Božac. From starting a mushroom association in 1983, a...
Destination: the other OTHER Roman coliseum — this one’s in Pula, Croatia
What’s with the ‘other OTHER’ title? Awhile back we enjoyed one of the Roman coliseum in El Jem, Tunisia. I called that one the ‘other’ Roman coliseum, after the much more widely known Coliseum in Rome. That makes this one the other OTHER Roman coliseum. I’ll note...