Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

Plitvice Lakes, Croatia

by | Oct 31, 2023 | Croatia, Family, Resurrection, Travel

Grabovac, Plitvice Lakes, and a novel During the week 18-24 October 2023 Patrice and I visited Croatia’s Plitvice Lakes region to 1). take a one-week vacation and 2) to ‘ground truth’ a chase scene which concludes my fifth novel, Resurrection.  Sixteen Lakes, the...
Writing in France

Writing in France

by | Nov 15, 2022 | Deception

La Coutine near Villars-Villenote My part of Burgundy (Côte-d’Or)  is a  landscape of ‘manicured’ rolling hills. The French farmers are meticulous, the crop rows straight ( three harvests a season),  the  hillsides dotted with white...
Leaving Rovinj

Leaving Rovinj

by | Apr 13, 2014 | Croatia

Departing Istria,  14 April 2014 We are leaving the Istria Peninsula this week-end after a six-month stay. On the apartment floor is a mailing box, Hrvatska posta, Extra Large. We over-packed and are mailing things back to America before we leave for Germany.  Patrice...
An EU Visa

An EU Visa

by | Mar 27, 2014 | Croatia, Germany

So this redneck and Central European Jew get married… Patrice and I will spend the spring, summer and fall in Germany. We will require a long-term visa. Patrice anticipates the outcome darkly; I optimistically. European Union visa rules interpret...
Istria, January 2014

Istria, January 2014

by | Jan 31, 2014 | Croatia, Deception, Soviet Union

Bihac, Bosnia-Herzogovina Last week Patrice and I went to Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina for our ninth wedding anniversary. Driving from Bihac to Velika Kladusia (border town between Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina) one encounters roadside memorials commemorating WWII...