Home for a day.

In case you ever go to Croatia, the cheapest rooms around are rented out of people's homes. A lovely woman named Jagoda and her husband who drives like a maniac put me up for the night - for a mere $13! - in the basement of their bright yellow house. I had a whole apartment to myself, basically - and a gigantic tub, which I think provided my last genuine washing until I had the occasion to enjoy a Turkish bath in Istanbul (stay tuned for that story. It's a funny one).

A Tale of Squid Ink

May 14th 2006
Hello all! Oy! Such a delay in the reporting! I know, and I'm sorry. I've been stuck on any variety of transport, traversing the Balkans with many taciturn locals (get that dictionary yet, Handsome?). No time for internet... must catch the next donkey out of Split! But I'll try to catch you up, and I'll start where I left off; Hvar. Where? Yeah, I know. It's a Croatian island, off t ... read more

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The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs, and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a feder... ... read more

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