Popular ferry that runs down the lenght of Croatian coast – from Rijeka to Dubrovnik, will be back in 2017 – reports Croatia Week.

It's the ferry that has a route: Rijeka – Split – Stari Grad (Hvar) – Korčula – Sobra (Mljet) – Dubrovnik.
It starts in the port of Rijeka, placed in the nothern Adriatic, continues to Split and then hits the islands – Hvar, Korcula and Mljet, before it reaches Dubrovnik.

Jadrolinija cancelled this route in 2015 due to financial reasons, but after a decision from government last week, this state owned ferry company announced its comeback.

While in the past 10 years Croatia had a wave of a large infrastructure investment in new roads, mostly highway, this time is marked by large investments in airports. Almost five billion kuna will be invested in three biggest airports in Croatia – writes Poslovni.hr

One of them is Dubrovnik Airport. Each of them has the specific model and they are all in various stages in development – some are near completion while others are still in the phase of making project documentation and closing financial construction. For example, the new passenger terminal at ZagrebAirport is being built by the concession mode and is funded by a loan.

Investments in Dubrovnik Airport will be mostly financed from EU funds, while the Split Airport in financing their investments mostly on their own resources.

The most significant, with almost half of the total amount of five billion, is definitely an investment in a new airport in Zagreb that should open its doors in March with the name of the first Croatian president Franjo Tudjman.

Christmas weekend brought great increase in number of arrivals and overnight stays in Dubrovnik. According to reports from the system E-visitor on Christmas Eve in our city there were 1,389 arrivals, an increase of three times. There were also 1948 overnight stays, an increase of two times. Most of the guests who spent the Christmas weekend in Dubrovnik were from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Korea, Croatia, UK, USA, Japan ...

From the start of the year to Christmas Eve there was 1,005,873 arrivals, an increase of 12 percent, and 3,463,535 overnight stays or thirteen percent increase. On the top list of tourists that visited Dubrovnik there are United Kingdom, Germany, USA, France, Croatia, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Australia, Italy...

A rich holiday program, beautiful winter weather and the beauty of our city have contributed to these achievements of tourist traffic, and for the upcoming feast of the New Year great numbers are also expected. To recall, last year in Dubrovnik for New Year's Eve stayed less than five thousand guests, while for the last weekend of 2016 is expected an increase of five percent.

Traditionally, Santa Clauses on motorbikes came to Stradun with a lot of candy! Moto club Libertas Riders organizes this event every year and like always friends from moto club Dvije rote from Konavle, Nomadi from Zupa and other bikers have joined this cheerful crew. Many children came to see and sit on bikes, take the candy and also have a photo memory with at least one Santa Claus.

Traditional Christmas concert 'Veselje ti navjescujem' that's been held continuously since 1991, is organized this year at the same place and same time like every year: 27th of December, 8 pm, Franciscan Church.

Participants are Dubrovnik Symphony Orchestra, the Libertas Choir, Chamber Choir, Cathedral madrigalists, Atlant choir and soprano Paulina Dapo. Performances of traditional Christmas carols and tunes like Kyrie Eleison, Ave Maria, Joy to the world and others will be conducted by Margit Cetinic, Frano Krasovac and Viktor Lenert.

With this concert, DSO and choirs traditionally congratulate citizens Christmas and the entrance to the concert is free.

New flights will connect London and Croatia – reports Total Croatia News. Flybe, the largest independent regional airline in Europe, brings new connections with Zadar and Dubrovnik. The flights will take off from London Southend and there should be two seasonal flights a week.

One way flights have the initial prices of £49.99. Dubrovnik flights start on May 16, while Zadar flights will start 11 days later.

It's Christmas and many locals and tourists decided to use this perfect opportunity to enjoy the peace and beauty of the Old City of Dubrovnik. Festive stands are not working, but even so everybody found their way to have fun and socialize. Families, friends, couples – doesn't matter – Dubrovnik was full of love today! 

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You got to love Christmas sweaters! Some call them ugly, others tacky, but we find them quite charming. Between all the dresses, heels and suits today two Christmas sweaters caught our eye. One with deer, other with snowman – they look so cute on this couple and they surely brought Christmas spirit... Not that we miss any!