A few minutes after this picture was taken it started to rain and the waiter at Piassa Granda in Rovinj hustled everybody inside to finish their dinners and drinks. Apparently the tables inside had very special tablecloths because Geni began fingering the tatting/embroidery and trying to imagine how long it…
It began this morning at 4am in our flat at the top of three and a half steep flights of stairs, in a house built circa 1600 part way up the hill toward the statue of St. Euphemia on top of her church on the peninsula that is old Rovinj,…
You can see the town of Motovun, Croatia when you come around a fold in the Ucka Mountains. It completely covers the top of a very steep mountain, surrounded by a beautiful valley. Hundreds of years ago, if you weren’t welcome, but you wanted to go there anyway, you had…
The oldest, walled part of Zagreb is definitely setup with a tourist focus. So much so, that it seemed a bit of a ghost town at night. The apartments over the shops were dark and quiet. We spent our wandering time in the transition area, downhill to the east of the…
Staying in a Zagreb Garret Our Airbnb host is a young, starving actor who carved a studio apartment out of the attic of a several hundred year old building. It’s so tight that Geni bonked her head on the roof framing when she stood up from the toilet. It’s got…
Commander Morrow ordered Victuals Crew to shop for food so we can save money. Crew sustenance while on victuals mission: Coffee stop. 2 kava (between espresso and coffee), $4 Beer/wine stop. 1 glass wine, 1 beer, $4 Lunch. 2 big plates of food (enough left over for lunch tomorrow), glass…
