Svid Rock Cafe was in Rijeka I believe.
It's more likely that when he was talking about girls that he would try to hook you up with his sister or cousin or something. Relationships are still made this way in Croatia and we often intermarry with other Europeans, but not often enough for it to be a concern. Prostitution is not really a thing, it's incredibly rare and connected to gypsies and other filthy undesirable.
Blind Guardian and Iced Earth are hugely popular bands among metalheads in Croatia, I was more of a Trash Metal/Punk guy.
I wasn't looking to hook up so steered conversation away from it, but that's good to know in hindsight, I won't have to remember the cabbie as a bit of a scoundrel anymore.
I did end up looking it up and yeah, it was Rijeka. Beautiful town, just fucking gorgeous, I just looked at some photos and my memory doesn't do it justice.
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