Today marks a milestone in my travel writer’s life. After seven and a half years of working out of my living room (when not on the road), I just became...
Posted by | August 17, 2010
I arrived back from Croatia on July 28. I took two days off, to settle back in after a six-week absence from home. Since then, I haven't had a day...
Posted by | August 10, 2010
I just finished an unsettling and gripping little book, Ian McEwan's "The Comfort of Strangers”. It opened with the following quote by Italian poet and novelist Cesare Pavese: “Traveling is...
Posted by | July 30, 2010
I returned from Croatia two days ago, about to start a frantic writing marathon in order to meet a looming book deadline in early September. My return to New York...
Posted by | May 25, 2010
Today finds me nostalgic for the type of travel I used to do and haven't now in a while. True, I've been lucky to have taken some incredible trips in...
Posted by | December 29, 2009
Today is a clear sunny day in New York but, as we say in Croatian, the sun has teeth. Translated, this means: it is freezing cold! I sit ensconced in...
Posted by | December 3, 2009
Today is one of those days when I ache for languid time on the road, afternoons spent lounging on a sun-washed square. Those days when there is no rush to...
Posted by | November 17, 2009
Hello dear readers. Exactly because you are dear to me, as is this little blog of mine, I'd like to talk about the hot topics in the travel writing and...
Posted by | August 31, 2009
A few days ago I returned from a family reunion at our house in the countryside of Croatia. I am still mulling over a vivid memory of my last afternoon...
Posted by | August 24, 2009
I just returned from a three-day getaway in Istria with a friend and her four-year-old daughter. We based ourselves in Rovinj, known as the peninsula's most beautiful seaside town. Beautiful...
