“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?” Ernest Hemingway Almost 11 hours of sleep and I feel much better. The sun coming through the open window, birds chirping, the breeze on my face, but it was the church bells that woke me. We lay in bed…
Category: Croatia
Fog
“In ordinary perception, the senses send an overwhelming flood of information to the brain, which the brain then filters down to a trickle it can manage for the purpose of survival in a highly competitive world. Man has become so rational, so utilitarian, that the trickle becomes most pale and thin. It is efficient, for…
Leaving Ljubljana
“The city exists and it has a simple secret: it knows only departures, not returns.” Italo Calvino I don’t remember going to sleep. This is how I woke up. Shell – Are you awake. Grant – Not really. I guess so. Shell – Well, I’m not. So, go back to sleep. Grant – OK It’s…
Feedback
“People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.” William Somerset Maugham The response to the last post has been clear. A full 100% of readers were dissatisfied with the previous post. “Were you drunk when you wrote this?” “Do better.” “I give this 3/10.” The readership has spoken. I will do better. Sunday…
Istrian Coast
“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.” Bram Stoker Saturday We head to the coast for a drive. Maybe it is the vastness of Australia, here is Croatia there is a sense of closeness. You can be high…
Dr. Guilio Pastori – Ophthalmologist
“Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.” Leo Tolstoy Friday A trip to Trieste to find an opthalmologist. Croatia – Slovenia – Italy in the space of 30 minutes. It is easier to find an ophthalmologist in Trieste than it is to find a park….
Grožnjan – Croatia
“How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformity.” William S. Burroughs Thursday My eye is still red, but now it is causing me pain. I get this bad headache behind and around my eye. It was so bad yesterday afternoon that I couldn’t read, and I went to bed at 6.00 pm. Shutting…
Breaking Up With Zagreb
We sleep in, kind of. Awake at 05:20. Plans for a pre breakfast walk are dismissed as we lay in bed with the window open and let the cold air in. Croatians know how to party, there is plenty of noise on the street. I don’t understand the langauge so I cannot tell if it…
The Boogie Lab
“I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread” Charles Bukowski I am not a restaurant or food critic. I don’t think this space will ever have more than a passing interest in food. I will make an exception today. The Boogie Lab deserves its own entry. The…