In depth recounting of my global wandering
Now let’s take a look at what happened in Istria After World War II. In 1941, as the Second World War raged, a map of the region looked like this: But that would soon change. When Italy surrendered in 1943, the Tito …
I wrote previously that Istria has a volatile history and promised I’d detail it during our visit there. We’re there on a bus taking us from Opatija to Motovun – one of the best preserved traditional hill towns on the …
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 …