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(This is the fifth post of our Croatia-Budapest Trip, June-July 2014.) Friday, June 20 Today started out with getting our car rental, finding our way out of town, then "Where's the map?" "I don't have the map." "Yes, you do. It was on your nightstand at home. You were supposed to bring the Budapest book… Continue reading Split — in Croatia
(This is the fourth post of our Croatia-Budapest Trip, June-July 2014.) Thursday, June 19 Gundelic Square the morning after the Big Game. We head to the Konsum store and buy breakfast, as well as some hairspray and a chocolate bar. Just the necessities. We venture out on the square to spot this Mr. Gundelic, atop… Continue reading Dubrovnik, then heading out
(This is the third post of our Croatia-Budapest Trip, June-July 2014.) Wednesday, June 18 This is the view from our third-story window, towards the left, overlooking Gundelic Square. This is looking straight ahead (taken on the first night we arrived). And this is looking right, towards the steps heading up towards The Church of St.… Continue reading Dubrovnik Slows Our Pace
(This is the second post of our Croatia-Budapest Trip, June-July 2014.) Wednesday, June 18 Dubrovnik once was two cities, divided by the sea: Ragusium and Dubrovnik. Over time the canal between them filled in and after an earthquake in the seventeenth century, the city's wide thoroughfare, the Stradun, was straightened out and rebuilt. After I… Continue reading Dubrovnik’s City Walls
(This is the first post of our trip to Croatia, Slovenia and Budapest in June-July 2014.) Thursday, June 17 After a long flight from Los Angeles to Munich, and then from Munich to Dubrovnik, we were happy to see from our airplane windows the coast of Croatia. Having viewed maps and photos and watched video… Continue reading Dubrovnik, Croatia Beguiles
We'd heard about the El Anatsui exhibit from my sister, read the write-up in the New York Times, and put it on our list of Things To See. Dave arrived home from his meetings around 6 p.m. and by 7 o'clock we had taken the 2/3 Red Line over to Brooklyn. The museum stop lets… Continue reading Brooklyn Museum of Art
This is post #14 and final post of our Northern Italy trip, for Saturday, November 3, 2012. Italy 2012, continued • Main Page Arrivederci means "until we see each other again," and that finality lingered around us when we woke up early that morning. No high water siren last night, and we wanted one last walk in… Continue reading Arrivederci, Italy
The Traveled Mind 