Massive and Formidable. Massive and Elegant. Massive and Impregnable. Massive and Dainty. Massive and Loved to Death. Toss out your Disney, throw off your Hollywood, forget your storybooks. They simply can’t carry the weight of Dubrovnik, and I’m not only referring to the walls that are 20 feet of solid…
I know you’re tired of the superlatives by now. Charlie’s jaw dropped again. Big deal. He must be exaggerating. Sheesh, man, get over it. Split, Croatia almost never made the list. One of our early winnowing techniques during research was to look at the first few dozen photos of a…
I’m not sure I can take anymore. Every time I think, “Okay, Croatia has shown me everything it’s got. I’m going to get used to it now and the world around me will feel normal again,” the country upends my brain pan again. We entered the alternate universe called Plitvice…
Basic math: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division. No problem. Geometry? Piece of cake. Algebra? Now you’re making me think. Calculus? Give me a book and I can get something done. But we don’t need any of that any more, do we? Especially if you were born after 1980 or so. The…
We did a lot of wandering around the web reading blogs and watching videos on YouTube while planning the trip. We also talked to friends that had been to Croatia and Greece. Then we did what we usually do: plan as little as possible and let the trip “happen to…
We intentionally set our trip for October in order to avoid the tourist crowds. September might have been a better choice, because October has mixed blessings. Everywhere we’ve been so far, the waiters, bartenders, cabbies and so on are tourist-fatigued. Most of them have been working 12 hour days, 7…
