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(E) Ivo Karlovic from Croatia beats Greg Rusedski from Britain
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Ivo Karlovic from Croatia beats Greg Rusedski from Britain
Rusedski crashes out of Madrid Masters 18 Oct 2005 Greg Rusedski has crashed out of the Madrid Masters at the first-round stage at the hands of 6ft 10in Croatian Ivo Karlovic. The British number two made the best possible start against Karlovic, taking the first set 7-5 on a tie-break. But the tallest man on the ATP Tour fought back to claim a 6-7 7-6 7-6 victory and book his place in the second round.
http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=870141
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(E) Oba su pala... Ivan Ljubicic osvaja dva ATP turnira za redom
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TENIS: LJUBICIC OSVOJIO ATP TURNIR U BECU 16.10.2005
Najbolji hrvatski tenisac Ivan Ljubicic nastavlja pobjednicki niz. Nakon sto je prosloga tjedna osvojio ATP turnir u francuskome Metzu, Ljubicic je pokorio i vrlo jaki turnir u Becu. U finalu 565.000 eura vrijednoga turnira u glavnome gradu Austrije Ljubicic je sa 6:2 , 6:4 i 7:6 (5) slavio protiv bivsega najboljeg svjetskog tenisaca, spanjolca Juana Carlosa Ferrera.
Ljubicic je do treceg turnira u karijeri, te drugog ove sezone u sest finala, dosao nakon dva sata i 30 minuta igre. Bila je to ujedno i 12. pobjeda Ljubicica u nizu, koji je posljednji put izgubio u trecem kolu Grand Slam turnira US Opena od Francuza Richarda Gasqueta, nakon cega su uslijedile dvije pobjede u polufinalu Davis Cupa protiv Rusije, pet pobjeda u Metzu prosloga tjedna, te pet pobjeda u Becu.
Dobar pocetak Ljubicica
Ljubicic je izvrsno otvorio dvoboj s Ferrerom te je vec u cetvrtom gemu uspio iskoristiti drugu break-loptu za vodstvo od 3:1. Vec u sljedecem gemu Ferrero je imao priliku uzvratiti Ljubicicu, ali se hrvatski tenisac uspio spasiti. Pri rezultatu 5:2 Ljubicic je jos jedanput osvojio spanjolcev servis te dobio prvi set sa 6:2.
Vec u prvome gemu drugoga seta Ferrero je imao priliku oduzeti Ljubicicev servis, ali se hrvatski tenisac jos jedanput izvukao. U nastavku drugoga seta oba su tenisaca cvrsto drzala svoje servise sve do rezultata 5:4 za Ljubicica, kada je Ljubo jos jedanput oduzeo servis Ferreru i poveo s 2:0 u setovima.
Treci set odlucen u tie-breaku
U trecem setu Ljubicic je bio opasniji, iako se cinilo da sve teze prati naporni finalni dvoboj. Kod rezultata 4:4 Ferrero je imao break-loptu, ali je Ljubicic osvojio vrlo tezak poen od cak 36 izmjena udaraca. U sljedecem gemu Ljubicic je imao mec loptu, ali ju nije uspio iskoristiti te se morao igrati tie-break.
Odlucujuci gem spanjolac je otvorio dvostrukom servis pogreskom te je tu prednost Ljubicic uspjesno zadrzao do kraja za konacnih 6:2, 6:4 i 7:6 (5).
Druga pobjeda u sest finala
U prijasnjih pet finala ove sezone samo je jedanput pobijedio (Metz), dok je u preostala cetiri zavrsna nastupa (Rotterdam, Doha, Dubai, Marseille) izgubio, no na tri od ta cetiri turnira protivnik mu je bio najbolji svjetski tenisac svijeta, svicarac Roger Federer.
Bio je ovo cetvrti susret Ljubicica i Ferrera i omjer je 3:1 u korist nasega igraca. Jedini poraz protiv spanjolskoga tenisaca dozivio je prije dvije godine u polufinalu turnira u tajlandskom Bangkoku.
Svi finali Ivana Ljubicica:
ATP LYON (2001.) - El Aynaoui - 6:3, 6:2
ATP Doha (2004.) - Escude - 3:6, 6:7 (4)
ATP Doha (2005.) - Federer - 3:6, 1:6
ATP Marseille (2005.) - J.Johansson - 5:7, 4:6
ATP Rotterdam (2005.) - Federer - 7:5, 5:7, 6:7 (5)
ATP Dubai (2005.) - Federer - 1:6, 7:6 (6), 3:6
ATP METZ (2005.) - Monfils - 7:6, 6:0
ATP BEc (2005.) - Ferrero - 6:2, 6:4, 7:6 (5)
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(E) Croatia Hosts 66th Skal International World Congress
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Croatia Hosts 66th Skal International World Congress
Zagreb. The 66th Skal International World Congress starts today in Zagreb, Croatia. Above 1,000 tourist companies from 87 countries will take part in it, Croatian newspaper Novi List reads. The congress will last till October 21st. Croatian President Stipe Mesic will officially open the congress Monday. Skal International is the largest organisation of travel and tourism professionals in the world embracing all sectors of the tourism industry. It has about 22,000 members active in 87 countries and in about 500 locations around the world.
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?catid=129&newsid=74446&ch=0
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(E) Zadar 2006 Invitation to all Croatian athletes around the world!
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Vamos svi together nach Zadar! Invitation to all Croatian athletes around the world!
 Applications for the Croatian World Games in Zadar 2006 under way. Visit our website for further info and on-line applications:
www.zadar2006.com
Join this unique sports and entertainment event and meet Croatians from more than 20 countries.
Disciplines at the Games:
athletics / badminton / boccia / judo / karate / basketball / basketball hoops / soccer / futsal (indoor soccer) / beach soccer / soccer - seniors / volleyball / beach volleyball / swimming / handball / table tennis / taekwondo / tennis So far we have received applications from following countries: Argentina / Australia / Austria / Belgium / Chile / Demnark / England / France / Italy / Canada / Macedonia / Norway / Germany / Peru / USA / Slovenia / Sweden / Switzerland / Uruguay / Venezuela
Hrvatske svjetske igre (Croatian World Games) Put Bokanjca 18, 23000 Zadar, Croatia
Office hours: mon - fri 9.00 a.m. - 4.00 p.m. (CET) sat 10.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m. Tel: 00385 23 220 649 Fax: 00385 23 220 691 Email: info@zadar2006.com Vamos svi together nach Zadar! 
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(E) In Memoriam - Francis Violich
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Francis Violich, emeritus professor of city planning and landscape architecture, dies
By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations | 07 September 2005
BERKELEY - Francis Violich, professor emeritus in city and regional planning and in landscape architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founder of the Telesis Group, which lent a progressive status to city planning in the Bay Area, died Aug. 21 of natural causes at his home in Berkeley. He was 94. Francis Violich
Born to Croatian parents in San Francisco in 1911, Violich grew up in a home a few hundred feet to the south of Golden Gate Park and credited his interest in landscape architecture to his mother's passion for gardening and her affinity for the environment.
He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1934 with a bachelor's degree in landscape architecture. Two years later, he was awarded a Heller Charitable & Educational Fund fellowship for graduate studies in city planning at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he learned how to design urban places to resolve social inequality.
Violich conducted study tours in Europe, Yugoslavia and Latin America that he said helped him establish a multi-cultural approach to his professional practice, teaching, research and community activities.
In 1941, he joined the landscape architecture and city and regional planning faculties at UC Berkeley. He served as chair of the department of landscape architecture and environmental planning from 1962-1964.
In the late '40s and 1950s, Violich helped found Telesis, which the American Planning Association has lauded as the "first volunteer-based group to bring multiple fields together successfully in a comprehensive approach to environmental development in a regional context." The association awarded Telesis national historical landmark status.
Telesis also laid the groundwork for the establishment of UC Berkeley's city and regional planning department in 1948 and the formation 10 years later of the College of Environmental Design, which included the departments of city and regional planning, visual studies, landscape architecture and architecture.
Violich published his first book, "Cities of Latin America: Planning and Housing in the South," in 1944. It was considered the first comprehensive work on planning and housing in Latin America and, after its publication, Violich was invited by what became the Organization of American States to start an exchange program on urban planning in the region.
His second book, "Urban Planning for Latin America: The Challenge for Metropolitan Growth," was co-written with Robert Daughters, the head of the urban development section at the Inter-American Bank in Washington, D.C. It was published in 1987 and drew upon decades of their work applying American methods to the needs of Latin American cities as they evolved into vast metropolitan regions.
When Violich retired from UC Berkeley in 1976, Donald Foley, then chair of the city and regional planning department, recognized his contribution to promoting interest in Latin American planning and his influence on the character of urban planning and environmental design. Foley also noted Violich's effectiveness in attracting and advising Latin American students to the College of Environmental Design.
Violich served as a planning consultant to Sao Paulo and Caracas and as an adviser to educational programs in Venezuela and Chile and to the Peace Corps, Pan American Union, Ford Foundation and other groups interested in urban planning in Latin America.
"Throughout all of this," Foley said, "Francis Violich has brought an intense commitment: a persistent belief that we can improve the environment around us and that we can improve the environmental design processes by which we intervene."
In Violich's 1998 book, "The Bridge to Dalmatia: A Search for the Meaning of Place," he examined post-war reconstruction, environmental eco-history, planning of urban areas in Croatia, and particularly the environmental cultural identity of people along Croatia's Dalmatian coast.
"The concept of the bridge, in my mind," he wrote, "applies to the foreign people who come to the U.S. and bring us their cultural concepts and in that way both enrich and take away from the Anglo-Saxon culture which is more materialistic and individualist, breaking up families and shifting the economic gain into the hands of a few."
Today, there is an active exchange program between the urban planning departments at UC Berkeley and the University of Zagreb in Croatia, where Violich spent a year in 1979 on a Fulbright Fellowship. His earliest research in Dalmatia began in 1937.
Violich launched the exchange program in 1996, contributing royalties from his Dalmatia book, and vowed to leave his Dalamatian research collection to UC Berkeley.
Violich won several awards, including a National Planning Pioneer designation by the American Institute of Planners in 1992 and recognition in 1997 as co-founder of UC Berkeley's city and regional planning department. He was given a Distinguished Alumnus Award by the College of Environmental Design and its alumni in 1999 in recognition of his accomplishments.
Violich placed in the finals of the Prix De Rome twice and was a member of the American Academy in Rome.
"Fran's life is a reminder that we stand on the shoulders of very special human beings," said Harrison Fraker, dean of the college.
Violich is survived by his sister, Clementine Nelson of San Francisco, and by a brother, John Violich of Kentfield, Calif. He is also survived by three sons: Antonio Violich of Watsonville, Calif., Frano Violich of Boston and Mario Violich of Venice, Calif.; daughters, Carmen Violich-Goodin of Berkeley and Francesca Violich Arango of Coconut Grove, Fla.; and 13 grandchildren. Violich's wife, Mariantonia Sanabria Violich, died in 1989. The couple was married for 43 years.
Memorial contributions can be made to the Francis Violich Dalmatian Fellowship Fund care of UC Berkeley's Department of City and Regional Planning at 228 Wurster Hall, Berkeley, Calif., 94720-1850, Attention: Malla Hadley, Management Services Officer.
A campus memorial will be held at The Faculty Club on campus from 3-6 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 30.
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(H) Gustin svjetski prvak, bronca za Papka i Gulju u Bocanju
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Gustin svjetski prvak, bronca za Papka i Gulju Bocanje, Svjetsko prvenstvo Torino (26. rujna - 1. listopada 2005.)
1. listopada 2005. - Hrvatska bocarska reprezentacija osvojila je tri medalje na Svjetskome prvenstvu u talijanskome Torinu. Zlatnu medalju osvojio je Alen Gustin u blizanju i izbijanju u krug, a broncom su se okitili Ante Papak u brzinskom izbijanju te Sandro Gulja u preciznom izbijanju.
Gustin je do svjetskog naslova dosao nakon sto je u finalu pobijedio predstavnika Srbije i Crne Gore Đurovica s 26:21.
Finalni je dvoboj u pocetku bio dosta izjednacen, no pred kraj je do izrazaja doslo iskustvo nasega Gustina gdje se vidjelo da je izvrsno pripremljen za ovu svjetsku smotru. Uostalom, zasluzio je to jer je bio uvjerljivo najbolji cijelo natjecanje, rekao je trener Slaven Parlov.
Gustin je u istoj disciplini prije dvije godine na proslom Svjetskom prvenstvu odrzanom u Nici osvojio broncanu medalju.
Papak je u dvoboju za trece mjesto u brzinskom izbijanju s 37:32 svladao Tunizanina Klaija, a Gulja je u finalu preciznog izbijanja osvojio 20 bodova, jedan manje od Slovenca Sofronievskog i Dodiga iz Bosne i Hercegovine.
Nazalost, bez medalje su ostali Papak i Josko Mardesic, koji su u stafeti izgubili u borbi za broncu. U dvoboju za trece mjesto izgubili su od Slovenaca causevica i Novaka s 43:49.
http://sport.hrt.hr/htvsport/izdvojeno/05/bocanje.html
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(H) Nema nista uvredljivije od banalnosti
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Moze se reci 'quo vadis Croatia' ali i quo vadis citav svijet! Jer sto ta profesorica opisuje je problem u citavom zapadnom svijetu. Banalnost, prostota itd. se vidi i cuje svugdje - od televizije do 'glazbe' i kod mnogih ljudi, pogotovo mladjih, koji su to uzeli kao cisto normalno. I tako dodje do nemorala i nasilja u svim formama. Pomozi nam Boze!
Sa srdacnim pozdravima,
Hilda
Nema nista uvredljivije od banalnosti! Ponasanje nasih bogatasa osnovna je znacajka primitivnih drustava, a do toga je doslo nestankom gradjanske klase koja je njegovala vrijednosti, danas izvrgnute poruzi MARIJA CRVELIN U izvrsnoj seriji »Idemo na sjever«, Goran Milic otvorio je okno kroz koje smo zavirili u zivot naroda dalekih sjevernih zemalja. Tamo vlada red pa i blagostanje, ali zitelji tih zemalja, cak i bogati ne isticu svoje bogatstvo i vrlo su skromni. Ovdje bi se mogle praviti neke usporedbe s nasim drustvom. Ponasanje nasih bogatasa osnovna je znacajka primitivnih drustava, a do toga je doslo, uz ostale uzroke, nestankom gradjanske klase koja je njegovala vrijednosti, danas nepoznate, nepriznate i izvrgnute poruzi i osudi. Kako pise Ivan Supek – gradjanska klasa je nastala na principima humanizma, krscanstva, prosvjetiteljstva i parlamentarne demokracije. Sva ta cetiri stupa rusili su totalitarizmi 20. st. Ta klasa koja je pocetkom Drugoga svjetskog rata, izbrisana s povijesne pozornice i fizicki istrijebljena, davala je pecat prijeratnoj Europi. Civilizirala i kultivirala drustvo. Sagradila gradove, ceste, luke, skole, katedrale. A sto je najvaznije: donijela je pravne kodekse, pravila ponasanja i zivota. Gradjanska klasa imala je i svoje tamne strane. Nerijesena nacionalna pitanja, ekonomske krize, nezaposlenost, socijalnu nesigurnost. Pa ipak, to je bilo pluralisticko drustvo u kojemu se postovala covjekova osoba i sva njegova prava. Postojali su slobodni izbori. Kult licnosti bio je nepoznat pojam. Postivao se rad, znanje i obrazovanje. Postojala je rijec – cast. Nije bilo montiranih procesa, ubijanja ljudi, otimanja imovine sto se sve dogadjalo naletom fasizma i komunizma. Moglo se slobodno govoriti i pisati. I pisalo se. O Sovjetskom Savezu kao o raju koji treba ostvariti i u nas. Glasnogovornik i bard nase knjizevnosti i »arbiter elegantiarum« hrvatske zbilje, svojom ideologijom i svojim djelom udarao je zadnje cavle u lijes gradjanske klase. Kada je crveni vihor sve pomeo, on je pod pozlacenim svijecnjacima u vili na brijegu meditirao i pisao o arabeskama svjetla na staklima u jesenjem sutonu. Zlocine oko sebe nije vidio. U gradu u kojem sam rodjena i odrasla mladi obrazovani ljudi sastajali su se na domjencima gdje se nije ni pilo ni pusilo, nego razgovaralo, pjevalo, plesalo, recitiralo stihove, sviralo i slusalo glazbu. Govorilo se o egzistencijalnim pitanjima. O smislu postojanja, smislu zivota i smrti. sto je starac Zosima rekao Aljosi. O odijevanju se nije govorilo. O tome se govorilo kod svelja, kad su one jos sile, i nisu bile modne kreatorice i stilistice. »Nema nista uvredljivije, strasnije i tuznije od banalnosti«, rekao je Cehov. Ta banalnost kao veo prekriva danas cijelo drustvo. Studenti su nedavno govorili o pobuni. Povod je bio neki problem studija, neki krivi politicki potez Vlade? Ne!!! Radilo se zapravo o lignjama. Ne zele one uvozne, iz Japana. Kako kaze Solzenjicin »intelektualac je onaj ciji su interesi i volja otvoreni neprekidno i uporno prema duhovnome zivotu«. Ne znam koliko se u tu sliku intelektualca uklapaju oni »od liganja«. Govori se da nam treba duhovna obnova, govori se o televiziji kao katedrali duha. Uspio slogan. Ta katedrala duha nudi nakaradne filmove pune seksa i nasilja. U gradu gdje su nekada mladi govorili o Dostojevskom, sada mladi dovode na scenu, u »Po ure torture«, tovara simu kojega neke djevojke »miluju«. Nitko nije zbog toga umro od stida. Nitko na televiziji nije dao ostavku. A publika? Protestira? Ne. Publika se zabavlja takvim i slicnim prizorima. Tu je bit problema. Moral i ukus nase javnosti nisko je pao, a duhovne su vrijednosti izgubljene. Ostaje samo tijelo u najrazvijenijim varijantama, a kako je fantazija neogranicena, stvaraju se sve nove kombinacije i perverzije. Da, sto je starac Zosima rekao Aljosi? Danasnja mladez to nece nikada zapitati i nikada saznati. A i sto ce joj to. To bi vodilo k nekim razmisljanjima, a ne znam je li moderan covjek za to vise sposoban. Bolje je ostati na povrsini i prihvatiti princip koji daje i trazi srecu samo u tjelesnoj ugodi. Istina, mladi obrazovani ljudi danas imaju tehnicka saznanja, o kojima mi stariji ne znamo nista. Ne znam koliko ih ta saznanja cine cjelovitim licnostima bez onih istina o kojima je govorio starac Zosima. Autorica je umirovljena profesorica hrvatskog i knjizevnosti iz Zagreba
Moze se reci 'quo vadis Croatia' ali i quo vadis citav svijet! Jer sto ta profesorica opisuje je problem u citavom zapadnom svijetu. Banalnost, prostota itd. se vidi i cuje svugdje - od televizije do 'glazbe' i kod mnogih ljudi, pogotovo mladjih, koji su to uzeli kao cisto normalno. I tako dodje do nemorala i nasilja u svim formama. Pomozi nam Boze!
Sa srdacnim pozdravima,
Hilda
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(E) Croatians donate blood to see key soccer game
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Croatians donate blood to see key soccer game
Monday, October 10, 2005 Croatian soccer fans rushed to donate blood this week in exchange for tickets for the national team’s decisive World Cup qualifying game against Sweden, the Vecernji List daily reported Friday.
The game’s organizers set aside 300 tickets for the occasion but the number of volunteer blood donors in Zagreb was several times higher. Students cut classes and employees used their lunch breaks to queue in the hospital, the daily said. “I have always been afraid of syringes, but for Croatia I found the courage,” student Ivica Brnadic told the daily. reuters
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_10-10-2005_pg9_13
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(E) ISU junior Grand Prix figure skating competition in Zagreb
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Mikhailova and Sergeev win ice dancing title in junior Grand Prix Sunday, October 09, 2005
ZAGREB, Croatia (CP) - Russians Natalia Mikhailova and Arkadi Sergeev won the ice dancing title at the ISU junior Grand Prix figure skating competition Sunday and the Canadian team of Sabryna Rettino and Michael Whitehead finished eighth.
Mikhailova and Sergeev posted a winning score of 160.33. Americans Trina Pratt and Todd Giles were second with 155.64 and Russians Kristina Gorshkova and Vitali Butikov with 146.58. Rettino of St-Basile-le-Grand, Que., and Whitehead, from Holland Landing, Ont., compiled a score of 118.41.
Bridget Namiotka and John Coughlin of the U.S. took the pairs title and teammates Julia Vlassov and Drew Meekins were third. The Russian pair of Ksenia Krasilnokova and Konstantin Bezmaternikh was second. There was no Canadian team entered in pairs.
© The Canadian Press 2005
http://www.canada.com/sports/skating/story.html?id=25e3b7ba-c5ea-41d2-8e8a-8609a65c5212
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(E) Tuscan-style farm tourism takes root in Croatia
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Tuscan-style farm tourism takes root in Croatia Sat Oct 8, 2005 9:53 PM ET
By Igor Ilic DIVSICI, Croatia (Reuters) - For years, Portugal's Algarve, France's Provence or Tuscany in Italy have been leading the field for farm holidays in peaceful rural settings.
The picturesque Istrian peninsula in Croatia's northern Adriatic is keen to join their ranks.
Judging by the Stancija Negricani, a sprawling farm estate surrounded by pastures and woodland in the hamlet of Divsici in the south of the peninsula, the idea may take off.
In the past few years, the number of rural households offering accommodation and home-made food has risen from a handful to more than 200, spread across the triangle-shaped peninsula whose lush vegetation belies the closeness of the sea.
"Istria and Croatia have long attracted tourists because of the pristine coastline and crystal-clear sea. A decade ago we started thinking 'Why not also take advantage of our unspoiled hinterland?' and a few years ago kicked off the project," said Marino Brecevic of the Istrian Tourist Board.
Now the tourist board wants the "agrifarms" to take care of business for themselves.
"We can carry on promoting agritourism, but the owners will have to organize themselves and ... facilitate their business by linking up with tour operators in Europe who sell such offers," Brecevic said.
Istria was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire until 1918 and was then ruled by the Italians until World War Two, and many inhabitants speak both Croatian and Italian. It was spared the devastation of the 1991-95 war following Croatian independence.
Since 2000, tourists have been steadily returning to the Adriatic which, thanks to 50 years of communism and a decade of war and isolation, has remained pristine and alluring.
DELICACIES ABOUND
Stancija Negricani, north of the largest Istrian city of Pula, is one of a few dozen more exclusively furnished farms in the area. It covers 34,000 square metres (8 acres) and is equipped with a playground, pool and beach volleyball pitch.
The owners, Mirjana and Marijan Modrusan, quit running a restaurant four years ago and invested in buying an estate and making it suitable for about 20 guests.
"We ran up a considerable debt to start this business. We wouldn't have achieved this had we not enjoyed refurbishing an old farm ... (and) if our only motive had been quick profit," Mirjana Modrusan said.
The guests, mostly from Britain, Germany and Italy, can enjoy delicacies such as ham, cheese or pasta with truffles and home-made bread and sausages made to a family recipe.
They can learn how to prepare traditional Istrian dishes and spend time in the wine cellar -- another indispensable part of an Istrian country household.
The Modrusans have a contract with a British travel agency and also advertise on a Web site. However, they agree that agritourism needs a more organised effort.
"It is difficult to define what a real farm holiday should include. At the moment, accommodation, food and facilities on offer at rural estates are not properly classified and vary a lot," Marijan Modrusan said.
VILLA HOLIDAYS
A more luxurious version of Istrian agritourism includes villa holidays, aimed at wealthier guests.
Rented villas are particularly popular with British tourists, who account for about 80 percent of villa clientele.
The business is evidently booming and some foreign media have dubbed Istria "the new Tuscany".
The recovery of Croatia's tourist industry has spilled over into the capital, Zagreb, whose refurbished facades, new luxury shops and central European charm are proving a tourist draw.
Sprawling between the Sava river in the south and Mount Medvednica in the north, the city of one million has never been a tourist hotspot, unlike the scenic coast.
However, the Zagreb tourist board says about 38,000 foreign tourists visited the city in July this year alone, a rise of 38 percent compared with last year.
"Many of the tourists are interested to see life now, after the war, compared to what they saw here under communism," said tour guide Hela Markanovic, 40.
Most tourists like to explore the cobbled lanes of the old Upper Town but many also roam the wide downtown streets lined with shops selling designer clothes and high-tech equipment.
A sore point remains the unwillingness of shop-owners in this conservative Roman Catholic society to work on Sundays.
"Along with lack of public toilets and parking lots, the main problem is that shops, souvenir shops and exchange offices are closed on Sundays. That shows how much more effort we need to have a professional tourist industry," Markanovic said.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=lifeAndLeisureNews&storyID=2005-10-09T015307Z_01_FOR906743_RTRUKOC_0_US-LEISURE-CROATIA-AGRITOURISM.xml
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