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There's a new travel app about to launch

Our sister project Croatia Underrated is developing a unique travel app, and the long process of collecting stories and preparing the content is coming to the end... that is, it will probably never come to its end, as we plan to add new content and improve the existing one over the course of time. However, we have enough to offer the app as an inspiration for your Croatian travels.

This July brought us a wonderful opportunity to lead a special walking tour in Croatian. The name of the tour was Ženski tok Trnjanske Savice (The Female Flow of Trnjanska Savica). Trnjanska Savica is a neigbourhood in Zagreb, on the bank of the river Sava, hence the flow. And yes, as the name says, we discovered the amazing female side of the neighbourhood in street names, women who have lived here, trees, and the very river that gently passes by.

The tour was a part of the project called Kvartovi kulture (Neihbourhoods of Culture) that takes place several times a year in different parts of Zagreb. It brightens up quarters with educational activities, workshops, theater plays, concerts, and other performances - it is always just one neighbourhood for the weekend. There is a tour of the neighbourhood, too, and this time, it was our time to share our enthusiasm for exploration. What a fulfilling experience it was for us! Such a fruitful exchange with the participants, so many curious facts uncovered. Plus, there was a game! To spice things up, we prepared some riddles for people to solve along the way. It wasn't easy at all, but it was so engaging. The whole thing was incredibly uplifting.

This is just the start of a beautiful friendship of Trnjanska Savica and Secret Zagreb, as we are preparing a selfguided gamified tour in collaboration with the neighbourhood council. The tour will be available in English, too, so we hope it will inspire you to explore this part of the city, completely outside of the tourist routes.

Experiences from Secret Zagreb at an international conference in Portugal

Bow your views to reviews - adapting, people-pleasing and self-censoring in interpretation - this was the title of our manager Iva Silla's presentation at the Interpret Europe conference. in Faro, Portugal this April.

WHAT WAS THE PRESENTATION ABOUT?

Has it ever happened, to those of you who work with visitors, that you wanted to do something out of the box with your interpretive project, but you had to tame your aspirations to get some funding? Have you ever had an encounter with a guest who was blatantly dismissive of democratic viewpoints, and you let it slide?