This is our apartment building, built in 1937, and known here as Casa Nave (architect Nereo Bacci).  We're on the fifth floor facing the sea (the side with the balconies).  The narrow door in the front is a hair salon and the entrance to the apartments is on Laginjina Ulica, the side of the building without balconies.  We've decided to not lease a car, because parking in our part of Rijeka is impossible, and the cars that are parked on our street tend to be half parked on the sidewalk and half on the narrow street.  You know you're not in Michigan when you find yourself walking back from the outdoor market, all uphill and stairs, carrying two armloads of bags full of produce and one full backpack, trying to hold the hands of two out of your three children so they don't cross the street before the coast is clear, and with all that baggage, you have to walk sideways on those parts of the sidewalk that are half taken up with parked cars.   The drivers here are crazy and the twisty turny uphill roads are madness, but I have been very impressed so far that drivers almost universally stop for pedestrians in the crosswalks. 

Casa Nave, 19 Laginjina