Monthly Archives: October 2016

When I left you in the previous post, we were about to set off on a five-kilometer circuit of the upper lakes at Plitvice. Although the walk isn’t particularly strenuous, the unevenly slatted boardwalk on which you spend most of …

Our main stop today will be one of the most scenic and photographed places in Croatia – Plitvice Lakes (pronounced plit-vee-chuh) – and will almost certainly be one occasion when you, as readers, might celebrate the loss of my camera …

Tito’s Legacy. Although Tito did much good for Yugoslavia and was, in many ways, unique among communist leaders, we need to keep in mind that he was also a study in contrasts. I previously described him as a strongman dealing …

Despite the elections, it’s a bit of an understatement to say that the nascent Federal People’s Republic of Yugoslavia was far from being a stable country let alone some sort of federal democratic republic. Maybe not quite Fifty Ways but …

At the end of the previous entry, I’d taken the oath as a Pioniri but more importantly taken you through some of the events that shaped the early life of Josip Broz. The onset of the Second World War loomed …