It’s late Thursday afternoon here in Opatija, Croatia, a resort town planted by 19th-century Habsburg aristocrats on a scenic peninsula of the Adriatic. We just returned from our day trip to the impressive medieval town of Mošćenice which sprouts from a cliff high above the … Read more
It’s easy to learn a language when your feet are on the ground. For the first time in many visits to Croatia, my hit-and-miss efforts to grasp the language are bearing fruit. Croatian has just enough similarities to Russian to have tripped me up in … Read more
Inwardly, quietly, I jump up and down when our group walks out of the Milenij Hotel into the bright sunshine. We are beginning our initial walking tour of Opatija, a literal coastal paradise more gorgeous than any brochure photo could ever be. To enter into … Read more
Here we sit at the eastern end of the Island of Hvar, in the Adriatic, waiting for the next ferry. Despite arriving two hours early for the 1 p.m. ferry, our bus was not allowed to load. Basically we got bumped for a group of … Read more
Yesterday we awoke in the coastal town of Opatija, Croatia, covered by pillows of fog. We were unable to see the Adriatic Sea, even though the waves began a hundred feet from our balcony. Stumbling through the fog to the bus, we drove forty miles … Read more