Cacahuete Wacky Fanny and June Cica Pantufla in the Balkans

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Starting in Zagreb, Croatia.
tomorrow: crossing into Turkey.

through many countries;
ha-ha we laugh in spite of the Balkan's cold fall and the heated fig factory.
here is only a bit of what we have seen.

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Photos

packing
now we are in Northern Greece, moving across the border to Turkey.

red peppers
the air smells like roasted peppers and every home is an ajvar (tasty sauce) factory.

franz, sophie and i
"On June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were shot to death in Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo Princip, one of a group of six assassins coordinated by Danilo Ilić.. . . Britta was there."

Sarajevo breakfast: the burek
sarajevo you are sweet.

may ontop of sarajevo
1 night bus to Sarajevo: a day of coffee and cigarettes in the park's sun, little books, hillsides, graveyards, stones, mosque echoes, fasting and laughing at nothing all of the time, funeral chanting, a deep rooted enthusiasm.

lake orhid
where 85% of the snails in Lake Ohrid are endemic. stay one more day. . . pleez. so we stayed swimming longer.

may and primo demetre
red-couches a-top athens

airplane sleeping 1am
back to athens from barcelona from lisboa from caracas from bogota. . .

train travel scene
for the first two weeks we followed a pattern in our days and in our nights: one night was devoted to train or bus travel and then the next to sleeping. Therefore, one day seemed as if it were two days long while the following day was only composed of a few hours. I think now doing better considering that we are staying in one place for longer than two days.

vernacular landscape
in the garden of plastic baby-dolls and marigold flowers (eden).

fig home
"good morning" steven declares in sleep,
growl, cold underwear on clothes line,
large planet in dawn's sky,
fig hunt under green-pangia canopy.

home time with May's never-known-before Greek family
Sofka, Anna, Laura, and Vasilis invited us weary travelers into their healing home of fine meals, ocean views, porches of sun, basil, and spa lakes. . . feeling new again.

a Greek Peformance
why? - there is a reason.

sewing on the tram
sewing a scarf on the tram with May. The daily moments of our life.