Franchu’s Lair

Last summer I spent two wonderful weeks in Zadar, Croatia learning Croatian, meeting amazing people and visiting wonderful places that are very near Zadar.

For the Croatian lessons I attended the Lin-Cro school. We stayed in a house where we could cook and wash our clothes and within walking distance (10 minutes) of the place where we were having the lectures. In the morning we would go to the lectures, and in the afternoon we would go to the beach enjoy the sea and sun while we would do our homework.

During the course we visited Nin, an important historical city in Croatia, and National Parks Krka and Kornati. Both are amazing places to enjoy a relaxing day and have a swim in a non-usual environment. In Krka you swim by a watefall, and in Kornati you swim by a remote island

To go out in Zadar you can go to The Garden, a lounge bar by the sea on top of the city walls, or if you want a more dynamic ambience you can go to “Medussa” bar on the Kolovare beach (mostly Croatian music), or to “Maraschino” which is between the bridges.

For dinner, we hit several times a little place called “Malo Misto” where you can eat cevapi, another one called “Tu mi je lipo”, another little konoba on tri bunara square (really near The Garden lounge bar), …

While in Zadar don’t miss the monument to the sun, the sea organ, and walking around the city center in the peninsula. After all, most of the city life is around Siroka Ulica, the main street in Zadar

To finish with this little summary of Zadar, I recommend you to take a look at the photos and enjoy the sights of the city and its surroundings.

Me acabo de encontrar un video con una representación del tráfico aéreo durante 24 horas. Es bastante curioso ver cómo se van activando las regiones en función de la hora del día y como se unen las distintas zonas del planeta

Este mes he ido un par de veces desde Valladolid a Asturias y cogí la autopista Campomanes-León para evitar el puerto de Pajares (si vas con tiempo y te apetece hacer carretera de montaña merece la pena verlo).

Hasta aquí todo normal, la sorpresa ha sido cuando he visto en mi cuenta bancaria que tenía una devolución con concepto: “DTO.R.D.1752/07″. Y me he puesto a investigar porqué mi banco había decidido devolverme dinero, y con una referencia a algo que parecía un Real Decreto.

Buscando por Internet, me he encontrado el Real Decreto 1752/07 que estipula que para los vehiculos ligeros que realicen el recorrido más de una vez al mes, se les reintegre el 50% del recorrido Obviamente, esto solo lo pueden hacer si pagas con la misma tarjeta de crédito/débito o usas el Via-T. Si pagas en metálico te quedas sin el descuento porque no hay forma de que ellos lo automaticen.