Stories from travels in

Zagreb

Zagreb revisited

Zagreb hasn’t featured on my list of cities to return to. I remember being singularly unimpressed with it, the last time I was there ….

Comments and their consequences

Dining out alone one evening lately, I got into conversation with a couple of Canadian tourists who were on a driving holiday through the region.

Alifakovac Cemetery Sarajevo

A grave difference

Some people are good at spotting celebrities; others are good at spotting bargains. Me? I can spot a cemetery from miles away. And in a

I don’t spend nearly enough time on rooftops

A man walks up Krúdy Gyula utca carrying a pair of chopsticks… No joke. I was sitting outside Fictiv enjoying a Saturday evening constitutional, and