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Published: July 16th 2020
Our guide in Trieste, Suzi, was a serious person and a wonderful teacher. She brought a binder full of maps. Showing us the local geography and national boundaries was helpful in our gaining a bit more understanding of the complex history of the Adriatic area. Trieste changed nationalities seven time in relatively modern times. It was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which the government invit...
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Isabel Gibson
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Another full day. Your point about the effect of more-or-less continual macro-political upheaval is well taken. When the wide world is so changeable, and often dangerously so, it makes sense to restrict one's serious loyalties to family. I love the photos of all the different kinds of asparagus and pepper for sale, and the St. Spyridon altar. Quite a change from the austere churches I grew up with, which almost seemed to flaunt their plainness as a virtue. And regarding the Lipizzanner stud farm, did you read "Airs Above the Ground" by Mary Stewart as a teenager? Amazing the things that travel (even someone else's travel!) can remind you of.