A Swapmeet and Tito's Birthplace

Saturday morning I did what I do most Saturday mornings... went to the Zagreb swapmeet, like the one in San Diego.  ...only with Zvonka and 7800 miles from home.  The's what might be the biggest swapmeet I've ever seen out at the edge of the city.  It's so popular that the closest we could park was about a quarter mile away, and we crossed well-worn trails through fallow corn fields.  Layed out on blankets on the ground over acres and acres were pretty much every object imaginable, really not much different than at home, just a lot bigger. I've always been interested in Marshall Tito, the man who put together, or more ...kept together Yugoslavia.  In the afternoon we headed about two hours north to the little village where Tito was born, near the Slovenian border. The house is a museum now, honoring Tito, and surrounding village has been restored to it's turn of the century state, with all the usual bad dioramas and maniquines depicting daily life, but it's actually a pretty interesting place. Reading the guestbook at the museum, you get an idea of the emotions about this leader in Croatia...  They range from scathing, 'it would be better if he had died before birth? to tender memorials from people who long for the Tito days again.