Short post today, we headed into the city to do some last minute souvenir shopping and have a bit of a chill day. First stop was a coffee shop near the Flower Market – the site of our previous AirBNB. Had some cake and relaxed with some people watching for a while.

We walked past this Golden ball last time, but we didn’t realise what it was. This is an art installation called the Grounded Sun, put here in 1994 after being first created in the 70s. The ball is a 1:68,000,000 scale model of the sun. 10 years after the placement at it’s current location another artist created a supporting installation by adding the entire solar system around the sun – also at 1:68,000,000 scale. That means that Mercury and Venus are tiny balls a block or so away, and Pluto (yes, it was still a planet back then) is about 9km away from the Grounded Sun. The strange bit is that the artist didn’t tell anyone that he was doing it, nor where all of the ‘planets’ were placed. It took a group of physics students to work out where they were all placed. The story is here – https://www.total-croatia-news.com/zagreb-blog/16728-the-grounded-sun-and-nine-planets-of-zagreb

We wandered back through the market and then had some lunch at a bakery before heading back through town to do some shopping for plane snacks before heading home for or last night in Europe. Tomorrow morning we fly out of Zagreb and head home. 😦 or 🙂

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