So much we don’t have a clue about. Don’t know how to even pronounce words, let alone what they might mean. Now we’ve added a new alphabet (Cyrillic), which is
Continue reading…illiteracy, the lack of foreign language(s), other ways
On the train to Belgrad I made a cheat sheet for Cyrillic. Totally humbling, since I can barely copy the characters of the alphabet with enough detail (little tails and
This post by Sr. Kilgore Ljubljana is a design center with an institute and museum we visited. The bus stop outside was a prototype of the bus shelter design first
We had been here before, some years ago. Fabulously beautiful, mellow city. A river city which means bridges and more bridges, and in Ljubljana, one architect (Jože Plečnik) designed the
We adjusted our itinerary. We had hoped to hit the coast, wander along it to Split, see if we could make arrangements to visit Mostar, continue to Dubrovnik, and then
I thought Rijeka was pretty mellow, after Zagreb. We had a kitchen so market time was great. More sun! Warmer! We applied our tourist acumen and let the rental agency
More hustle and bustle, a gritty city. Style, polish and stylish attitude. Acclimating to bűrek(phyllo dough pastry, sometimes in a pie,sometimes rolled up. Bűrek is everywhere: sweet, meat, cheese, your
We were lucky enough to find and find our way to an amazing Dűrer exhibit: this guy could do anythi ng, it seems, and did. One of his early self
Continue reading…Vienna,in theory an overnight stop on the way to Croatia