In The Shadow Of The Acropolis: the neighbourhood of the Gods. Plaka, Athens
26-29 May and 18-20 June 2022. It’s not an auspicious beginning. The taxi driver from the airport starts taking us …
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Weird All Round. In a good way. Well adequate anyway.
It was the stairs that did it . . . . . During the planning stages it doesn’t occur to …
Visual Storytelling – street photography in Croatia
5-26 May 2022. All of these photos – chance encounters and random incidents – were taken in Croatia, but this …
Vis Island, Croatia. Lazy lay days doing not much.
21-24 May 2022. I’m stressed about getting to the ferry on time. Thank God I get through to book a …
Song of the Wild Water. Plitvice Lakes National Park
17-20 May 2022. We get to the bus stop really early. We know it’s going to be a double-decker bus …
Hvar Island, Croatia. Serendipity rules!
15 May 2022. I look with a niggling dismay at the vehicle. It’s old and large, a bulky 1980’s minivan …
Seduced By Zlatni Rat. The island of Brač and Zlatni Rat Beach.
16 May 2022. I love being in a boat on the water, and I’m always happy when it’s a ferry. …
Split’s Beauty Queen – the Riva waterfront
11-16 May 2022. If the historic core is Split’s venerable matriarch, then the waterfront pedestrian boulevard, known as the Riva, …
Diocletian’s Cabbage Patch – Split’s ancient centre
As usual we know almost nothing about it. We know is it’s called Diocletian’s Palace, which tells us that it’s …
Ordinary People. Split, Croatia
11-16 May 2022. So to continue the story from the last instalment, on May 11th we stumble around getting packed …
Coulda Woulda Shoulda – Ston and the Pelješac Peninsula, Croatia
It all begins with the car rental in Dubrovnik. One of us had found a deal online and booked a …
Cursed and Ransacked – Lokrum Island and Cavtat, Croatia
Cursed! In the 11th century an abbey and monastery was founded on Lokrum Island. It was run by a powerful …
The Pearl Of The Adriatic – Dubrovnik, Croatia
I’m at home in Vancouver now. On this cool summer day I can hear the traffic swooshing past outside the …
Wow! What a Ride! An overview of seven weeks in Croatia and Greece
3 May-21 June 2022. Fear at the beginning. Unusual for me. Perhaps prescient. I don’t know. Something could go wrong! …
Adventures in Wonderland 