Walking London and Croatia by Scooters, Sat Sep 10, 2022

         

Sat 2022/09/10 bus back to Zagreb


An EV charger in Zagreb

Hoskas! This is my kind of place!

picking up souvenir T-shirts

Chance meeting an old friend

So, walking from the souvenir shop and looking for somewhere to eat, I hear someone yell out "Chris Uhlik". I turn and almost recognize this guy sitting in a cafe. It's Marin Saric who used to work for me on Project Ocean about 18 years ago. Back then he was a precocious kid of about 20 years old, hired on at Google because he placed something like 4th in a world programming competition. I remember he liked american muscle cars and drove a TransAm or Camero. Well, he remembered me well enough to pick me out of a crowd in Zagreb 20 years later. Kathi and I sat down and talked with Marin and his wife Chelsea for about 2 hours before walking them home. Chelsea is pregnant and due with her first baby in about 2 weeks, so she and Kathi had a lot to talk about. Unbelievable coincidence!


Chelsea (with baby due in 2 weeks), Marin Saric, Chris Uhlik

While we were talking, it rained hard at around 8:45pm for half an hour or so. The wind blew things over and everyone scrambled under cover. Then the rain stopped. It was as if nothing had happened. We encountered just a light rain on the ~3km walk back to our hotel.


we kind of missed dinner, so luckily we were able to get a late night pizza at the hotel bar a few minutes before they stopped serving food.


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