Book ‘The Ascent of Mount Hum’ - A Croatian Cricketing Odyssey, written by Steven Haslemere is the eventful and often hilarious story of how Vis’ quiet Adriatic idyll was rudely shattered by the arrival of a rag-tag team of pub cricketers from Cambridge, who went intending to play the first cricket match on Vis in nearly two hundred years.

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The village tourist estate Srce prirode (The Heart of Nature) has been opened in Gorica Lipnicka, a village located on about twenty kilometers from the town of Karlovac in Central Croatia.

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ZAGREB: A CULTURAL AND LITERARY HISTORY book by Celia Hawkesworth, Foreword by Sonia Wild Bićanić:

Situated at the foot of a range of hills on the edge of the great Pannonian Plain, for most of its history Zagreb has been a small town to which things happened. Administered from 1102 by Hungary and later absorbed into the Habsburg Monarchy, Zagreb was under threat from the advancing Ottomans until the late sixteenth century. In 1918 the Croatian lands joined their immediate South Slav neighbours in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later renamed Yugoslavia. Following Yugoslavia’s violent collapse, in 1991 Zagreb became the capital city of the new independent Croatia.

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A meeting of the European Federation of Campingsite Organizations and Holiday Park Associations (EFCO and HP), an organization established in 1979 and bringing together around 25 thousand European campingsites and camp resorts, was held in Umag in late September.

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Here are some photos from last night’s illustrated lecture about The Underwater Archaeological Treasures of the Croatian Coast given by Dr Irena Radić Rossi from Hrvatski Restauratorski Zavod in Zagreb that was hold at the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia  in London, UK:

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From November 5th to 9th, on Petar Preradović Square in Zagreb, about fifty makers of top class, quality wine from Zagreb and its surroundings will present their products at the festival that is taking place for the 8th year in a row.

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The winners of this year’s Blue Flower award, Green Flower award and Worker of the Year award of the Croatian Tourism Board (HTZ), and of the Tourism Flower-Quality for Croatia award of Croatian Radio and Television and the Chamber of Commerce, were presented during Croatian Tourism Days, an event taking place in Opatija last week.

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An exhibition of German Expressionists is currently opened at the Gallery Klovićevi Dvori in Zagreb.

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With the last two sections on the Zagreb-Rijeka motorway completed, the 146-kilometre dual carriageway motorway was opened to traffic cutting down the trip between the two cities to just 75 minutes.

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Argentina has been chosen to host the third World Conference of News Agencies in October of 2010. Clearly an event that requires much time and forethought to plan, the conference According to the Economic Times, the Argentine news agency Telam is organizing the event.Telam’s president, Martin Granovsky, says that he wants to stress “commitment to freedom of speech, diversity and the role of news agencies around the world,” in the conference. A rather recent tradition, the first World Congress was held in Moscow in 2004 and the second in the southern Spanish town of Estepona in 2007. Argentina is honored to host the third and will welcome news agencies from around the world during the year of the country’s bicentennial.

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