The Stradum at night

"And so castles made of sand melt into the sea eventually"

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July 19th 2006
On Wednesday morning I had a bit of difficulty getting from Korčula to Dubrovnik. I woke up super early and checked out of my private room (which, although still noisy from the restaurants below, provided ten times more sleep than the hostel. Though I did suffer from "school exam syndrome," where I sat straight up every 45 minutes or so, panicking that I had overslept, then realizing it was abo ... 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