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July was all about working hard and the Hugos. It was hot, and ocassionaly very rainy, and the first July in a long time I mostly spent in Zagreb. I loved it. The month kicked off with Fantastic Zagreb, a local scifi film festival which usually features an awesome streak of genre classics in an […]
Read More Summer Loving…. to Read: July 2019Ugljan is a small island across from Zadar, it takes only 15 minutes by ferry to reach the mainland. It is the island of my husbandās choice and the island of circumstance for me, and it took the longest time for it to become even a little bit mine. There is nothing wrong with it […]
Read More UgljanThe notion of Istria, the largest Croatian peninsula, being magical gets repeated a lot, especially on touristy sites. But the fact is, a place that can make a coldish, cloudy, rainy spring Sunday seem like a gift from heaven must be at least a little bit magical Nope, not talking Istrakon, that I covered in […]
Read More Chasing Waterfalls – A Day in Central IstriaI love Istria in the spring, and I especially love Pazin in the spring, and not only because of Istrakon. The biggest Croatian peninsula is truly magical and I am at great pains today trying to decide which of my favourite places there I can squeeze into a very tight schedule since I am not […]
Read More My Istrakon 2019 ScheduleI have no idea how I decided to go to Rikon for the first time. I do not even remember what year it was when I went for the first time. I dimly remember my friend Irena RaÅ”eta and I being put up by a young man in student lodgings. I remember very well the […]
Read More Rikon 2018, Aliette de Bodard and fun, fun, fun