Today has been a water day. From the moment I put my two feet on my Mexican tile floor in Puerto Escondido,Mexico, some part of my body was covered in cool,fresh moving water. Commited not to sit in the hammock and watch the palms,I was on my five km beach walk by 8 am. Returning […]
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Sarajevo,past and present
I was visiting the modern art gallery in Sarajevo with a very quiet Australian girl I had shared a table with at lunch. We were the only women in this quaint Bosnian bistro in the old city. Accidentally discovering this traditional restaurant the night before,I had dreamed about my Begova soup all morning and was […]
Montenegro,on the way to Bosnia
Most of us have to think twice before we can actually calculate where the little country of Montenegro fits into the Balkans. I had planned my escape to Montenegro from the town of Skodra,Albania, less than 30 km from the Montenegrin border. Wondering why a friend had put this place on my must see list,Skodra […]
Albania, twelve years later
The first time I explored Albania was in the fall of 1996. The country had not changed much from the previous forty years under Enver Hoxha,the tyrannical dictator that had closed Albania to the outside world. It was definitely a depressing week I spent traveling around alone but the one positive memory was how hospitable […]