Mark Paget Skelin

Croatian-Scottish Londoner and citizen of Europe. All views my own.

[Mark Paget Skelin @markskelin]

@IstrianMario There aren’t many of us in the UK. No Croatian bars or even a Croatian restaurant. We have a couple of networks, and some gatherings from time to time. There’s also a small Croatian church here in London which helps bring people together. Lots more in Ireland these days.

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@AnthonyZoric They seriously included Lovro Majer on this list? And even worse, ahead of Wolfl, perhaps the best Croatian footballer in the 1940s? Why??

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@UKinCroatia @CroatiaBusiness Čestitke Iva!

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Just wondering if anyone else has had poor treatment from @InsureandGo in respect of lack of medical support whilst on holiday and then refusal to reimburse expenses as a result? Asking for a friend… #travelinsurance

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@fiago7 It’s excellent - and much better than Nutella. The milk variety is probably the best.

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@NutritionWatch Ah. They must all be built on the same model because that could be the same in Split. Random floor and room numbering, no logic anywhere.

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@CroatianSoccer Yep, Perišić was on fire tonight. Played with an intensity and agility like he was 26, not 36.

[Colin Spencer @ColinSpenc4257]

Thought of The Day.

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@CroatiaFooty Vukovar deserve it for so many reasons from recent history. They also have some of the best shirts in all of Croatian football.

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@lijukic Agreed. An excellent book.

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@StefanZL98 It might have survived as a smaller state perhaps if at least one of Russia, Prussia or Austria had remained weak. And if it ditched the luberum veto which paralysed any attempts at modernisation

[Mark Paget Skelin @markskelin]

@StefanZL98 It depends whether Franz Ferdinand also survives in your scenario. If he’d still been killed, then no it would have split apart as the fractures between the nationalities widen. If FF had lived, then maybe it could have evolved into a federal Austria-Hungary-Slavia

[Mark Paget Skelin @markskelin]

@hiddenEurope I agree, it has to be Trieste. Although Riga, Lviv and Wroclaw come close.

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@CroatianSoccer Kulenović doesn’t seem to be that consistent so the jury’s still out on him. But calling him up would cement him playing for us, not BiH which I think he’d also be able to play for - so maybe yes in that case.

[Mark Paget Skelin @markskelin]

@lijukic There were more railways in Dalmatia in 1913 than in 2024. The closure of the Sinj to Split line and the network around Dubrovnik particularly sad.

[Mark Paget Skelin @markskelin]

@Deana_Croatia Agreed. He always looks to remain humble and aware of his roots and of what made him. It will be a sad day when Luka eventually retires, the end of a glorious and wonderful era.

[Mark Paget Skelin @markskelin]

@EuropeByRail I unearthed an old former Yugoslavia railway, bus and ferry timetable book from 1971 at the London Transport Depot Friends’ shop in London recently. Hours of happy and contented reading - and so many surprise routes I never knew had existed

[Mark Paget Skelin @markskelin]

@slipperytom @hoyer_kat The Soviets kept the cathedral because it contains Kant’s tomb. Communism approves of Kant’s philosophy so the tomb and the ruined cathedral survived 1945

[DALMACIJA @DELMATA_]

Hrvatski sokol iz Drniša, 1908. 🇭🇷