All the working week the weather had been a mixture of blue skies and sunshine, but then the weekend arrives and the heavens open. If you were planning on enjoying this Dubrovnik weekend in the open air you might want to take an umbrella with you.

The forecast for all weekend is for overcast, grey skies and rain, with the occasional torrential downpour. Rain has already been falling in Dubrovnik since midday today and temperatures today will reach highs of 11 degrees. Sunday will see similar rainy skies and light showers, highs tomorrow will hit 13 degrees.

And as if the weather knew the weekend was over Monday and most of the rest of next week will again be clear and warm with highs on Thursday up to 17 degrees.

A Chinese multinational automotive manufacturing company and owner of the taxi service in London has hired Lipik Glas to supply windscreens for the new electric-powered and TX5 electric hybrid London black cabs.

Lipik Glas, one of the biggest automotive industry suppliers in Croatia, won the contract to produce windscreens for The London Taxi Company, a manufacturer of the famous London black taxis.

Danijel Zadjelovic, the director of the Lipik Glas company did not hide his satisfaction with the company’s new engagement, ‘’This deal is very important for us because this is a very large quantity. The planned level of production is up to 7,000 taxis annually, which will account for 10 percent of our income in the future”. He also added that apart from 205 employees, the company employed 30 more people in the past few weeks and was planning to invest 30 million Kunas in new machinery and production plants in the next two years.

It is interesting to note that the Croatian company already produced glass for the Aston Martin DB10 which was driven by James Bond in the film Spectre.

The world's greatest car website Top Gear has reported that Aston Martin, the luxury British sports car manufacturer, have announced that the Croatian company Rimac Automobili will deliver the battery set for their model AM-RB 001.

Aston Martin has been developing the hyper car in cooperation with Red Bull Racing and according to a design of the legendary F1 racing car constructor Adrian Newey. AM-RB 001 should be the world's most extreme car ever seen on the roads with performance that will compete to those of F1 racing cars.

The British high-performance engine company Cosworth will deliver the engine for the AM-RB 001 model: a 6.5-litre, naturally aspirated V12. Aston Martin says it will be the ultimate road-legal internal combustion engine.

In addition, the car will use a seven-speed paddle shift gearbox designed and built by Ricardo, the British engineering and consultancy firm, who previously created the six-speed manual gearbox of the Ford GT, and is currently the supplier of McLaren’s 3.8-litre bi-turbo V8 engine.

The Croatian company Rimac Automobili will develop and deliver the lightweight battery system for the 001; apart from the conventional engine, this hybrid will use several electric engines.

Furthermore, the carbon fibre company Multimatic from Canada will manufacture chassis for the hyper car, whilst the race car braking system experts from Alcon will deliver the car brakes for Aston's maddest car ever.

It is interesting to note that after the Swedish car manufacturer Koenigsegg, Aston Martin is the second super sports car manufacturer who has used the knowledge and skills of Rimac Automobili.

According to a recent survey, almost 77 percent of respondents are willing to leave Croatia in a search of a new job and a brighter future.

More than half of respondents would leave the country in order to find work in their profession, whilst 43 percent of people would accept any job.

The survey carried out by the MojPosao portal encompassed eleven European countries (Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia) and included 35,000 respondents.

Furthermore, the survey showed that a great majority of respondents from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia are more willing to accept any kind of job than respondents from other countries are.

In general, more men (81%) are willing to go abroad than women (73%), as are respondents of 25 years of age and younger. Almost 80 percent of young population are ready to leave Croatia, whilst 79 percent of population aged 25 to 34 would follow their path. Respondents older than 55 years (58%) are not willing to search for a job outside Croatia's borders.

The main incentive for relocation to 69 percent of Croatian respondents is a higher salary, whilst 38 percent would seek possibilities for better career development.

In addition, the survey also shows that the great majority of people in Croatia would go abroad for a period longer than one year; a fifth of respondents would leave the country for several months, whilst the rest of respondents would go abroad only for a few weeks' time.

Last year the portal MojPosao published more than 1,100 ads for jobs abroad, or 14 percent more ads compared to the previous year. Most ads were for jobs in Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia.

The most in-demand professions abroad are electricians, IT developers and electrical workers for jobs in the field of installation, maintenance and repairs, production, craft services and electrical engineering.

It had to happen, after the countless bare male behinds that have appeared on social media with Dubrovnik as a background now we have the first female one. This rather unusual new craze of baring backsides whilst travelling and then revealing them to the world via social media caught on last summer and from the signs are that this summer could see more cheeky photos this year.

This latest and first Dubrovnik female, photo soon went viral on Instagram and was published on the account of Flash The Abyss, who uses the tagline “A photographic journey dedicated to removing boundaries between woman and... whatever she chooses.” She has over 11,000 followers on Instagram and this “bottoms up” in Dubrovnik photo has almost 700 likes.

The official dates of the filming of the latest Hollywood blockbuster to use Dubrovnik as a location have been confirmed by the City of Dubrovnik. Filming of Robin Hood: Origins will begin on the 20th of February and last until the 6th of March and the city has warned that during these dates certain parts of the city will have special traffic regulations for both pedestrians and vehicles.

“During the whole of the filming as much as possible will be done to avoid disturbing the flow of all kinds of traffic, however we kindly ask the public for their patience,” read a statement from the City of Dubrovnik.

The main street through the centre of Dubrovnik (Stradun), the old harbour, St. Dominika Street, Pile Park, Pile gate, Kneza Hrvaša Street plus a few other locations will be used during the filming and both day time and night time filming is scheduled.

It's amazing what you can show in 16 seconds! Timelapse of Dubrovnik in the summer season has been uploaded couple of days ago by Youtube channel Wolfzaire and it's looks great. It's clear to see that it has been filmed in the late afternoon. It shows Stradun, St.Blaise Church, shiny stone and the crowd walking around and taking photos... Quite enchanting – and it brings that summer feel.

The EU Commission has decided to refer several members countries to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to implement EU rules on driving licences.

Croatia, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden are the EU member countries which will be referred to the EU Court of Justice for failing to comply with the EU Directive 2006/126/EC.
In October 2015, the EU Commission opened the misdemeanour proceedings and sent its reasoned opinion to these four members states in June 2016. However, the countries have still not fulfilled their obligations under the EU Directive, thus the Commision has decided to refer the cases to the Court.

The Commision has identified several omissions in the implementation of the Directive 2006/126/EC. For example, the Netherlands failed to implement the harmonised validity periods for licences; Portugal failed to ensure that one person holds only one licence, whilst Sweden failed to transpose the requirements on medical fitness, especially for drivers who are dependent on alcohol.

On the other hand, Croatia will be referred to the Court of Justice for failing to connect to the EU driving licences network RESPER, as required by the Directive 2006/126/EC.

RESPER helps the EU member countries cooperate with each other and ensure that driving licences are issued according with EU rules which therefore help to reduce the possibility of fraud, guarantee true freedom of movement for EU drivers and reinforce safety on roads throughout the European Union.