This year's first official meeting of the Alfa Klub of Croatia took place in Zadar last weekend. The event, which was the first time Croatian Alfa Romeo enthusiasts' had got together since a meeting just before Christmas, started around 10:00 when cars from all around Croatia started arriving at the Spona shop complex's parking area in Zadar. This was to be 8th major Alfa Klub meeting and it was also a great opportunity to celebrate the club's second birthday. So it was Happy Birthday.

The Alfa Klub is the Croatian registered club for Alfa Romeo fans; it was founded in Zagreb on 29th March 2005. The club's website had in fact started more informally on 10th September 2004, and from that moment up to today we organised eight big events in Croatia. At every meeting we have had more than 50 Alfa Romeo cars turning out, and is very good for a small country like Croatia. Today the club has about 150 official members, and many more friends of club. Members of the Club also organise unofficial meetings every few weeks in the big town and cities around Croatia, including Zagreb, RIjeka, Split and Velika Gorica.

Meanwhile last weekend beautiful weather attracted a lot of Alfa Romeo fans to the meeting in Zadar, with more than fifty of the Italian cars gathering for the Alfa Klub get-together. It was truly a vision to remember. After the initial gathering, convoy of Alfa Romeos went for a tour through Zadar arriving at a parking area behind the Jazine Sports Centre. From this scenic setting we took a short walk to see Zadar's famous Sea Orchestra. After taking photographs we headed back to our cars and, with an escort provided by the local police, we went back to the restaurant Tamaris.
 

After a delicious lunch in great company, the club's leadership thanked the members who had helped to make this meeting a great success, and also to thank all our loyal sponsors. We also awarded some of our forum members and then invited everyone to our next meeting on Grobnik race track."

Every year we hold one big international meeting at the main Croatian race track of Grobnik which is located near the town of Rijeka. This summer meeting has rapidly become a popular high point of the Alfa Klub calendar. The highly demanding FIA-approved Grobnik circuit was home of the Croatian MotoGP race up to 1990, but between 1991 and 1995 the war caused the circuit to fall out of international use. Our meeting this year will take place on 17th June and all Alfa Romeo enthusiasts' are welcome to join us. With the track being located just 100 km from Italy many extra participants from the brand's home nation are expected to attend. For more information on the Alfa Klub please visit www.alfisti.hr

by Neven Djurovic