[Cyclopean Squid]

Croatia is a beautiful country with very friendly people. I had the great pleasure of traveling there a few years ago--I never would have thought of it as a vacation spot, but a series of events fatalistically took me there.

I remember I had rented a motor scooter along with my friends in Dubrovnik (note to travelers--check out Split, Hvar Town and Dubrovnik). I predictably fell off, nearly dying in the process, and a kindly family assisted me in dressing my wounds and making sure I was okay. They did their best to help me laugh it off and get back on the road. Later, the gentleman I rented the scooter from invited me and my friends into his home for dinner with his family. It was a great memory, perhaps my fondest from my European sojourn.

The people are fiercely patriotic, and the country's flags fly everywhere. It makes sense when you consider how long they have been under the heel of other powers; Italy, Austria, Yugoslavia. I would hate to see them swallowed up by the Socialist Leviathan that is the EU.

[Lukasz]

I would hate to see them swallowed up by the Socialist Leviathan that is the EU.

If I would be a Croat, member of such small nation, I would do everything to stay out of the EU. But as a Pole, I will not oppose their membership cause more nations in EU it is less power in hands of the old European leaders.

[dfwgator]

Croatia is the best-kept secret in Europe for tourism. I hope to visit there someday.