Monday, July 18, 2005
Can't Say "NYET" to NYT
Lo and behold page 1 of Sunday's NYT greeted me yesterday morning. Hey, it's not me going on and on about this. It's a respected (as much as that is possible nowadays) newspaper. As is usual with most stories regarding the Croatian seaside, there are the usual story line suspects.
1) Wine.
2) Some native who reminds the writer of Zorba the Greek (no matter that Greece is two countries away). If not Zorba, then some other hairy bi-ped, like..what's that guy's name from Harry Potter? Hogarth? Hobart? Anyway, some guy sporting the latest tonsorial Unibrow.
3) Witty but depressing sayings.
4) Wine.
5) The paradox that the size of the national ego cannot be contained by the smallness of the country.
6) Did I forget to mention wine?
Although happy with the article, I'm hoping there's enough worry sprinkled within it to keep the tourists away. It's a man-eat-dog battle for those last remaining hotel rooms. Although a bottle of wine and a well-worn house stoop sounds fine to me right now.
Lo and behold page 1 of Sunday's NYT greeted me yesterday morning. Hey, it's not me going on and on about this. It's a respected (as much as that is possible nowadays) newspaper. As is usual with most stories regarding the Croatian seaside, there are the usual story line suspects.1) Wine.
2) Some native who reminds the writer of Zorba the Greek (no matter that Greece is two countries away). If not Zorba, then some other hairy bi-ped, like..what's that guy's name from Harry Potter? Hogarth? Hobart? Anyway, some guy sporting the latest tonsorial Unibrow.
3) Witty but depressing sayings.
4) Wine.
5) The paradox that the size of the national ego cannot be contained by the smallness of the country.
6) Did I forget to mention wine?
Although happy with the article, I'm hoping there's enough worry sprinkled within it to keep the tourists away. It's a man-eat-dog battle for those last remaining hotel rooms. Although a bottle of wine and a well-worn house stoop sounds fine to me right now.
Comments:
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Ah. You're in trouble now. Croatia will become the new Tuscany. There will be books: "My Croatian Summer" - "A Year in a Croatian Villa" - "Croatian Cooking" and so on.
# opined by 
: 10:30 AM, July 18, 2005
: 10:30 AM, July 18, 2005
Hmm, more like, "A Day in Lackawanna State Correctional Facility for Women is like a Year in a Croatian Villa". The "Croatian Cooking" book will leave many people suspicious as most of the color photos of the prepared foods are all brown (but VERY delicious). I'm waiting for summer flicks a la "Claire's Knee", titled Kresomir's Goiter". The test of a great novel is the drop in tourism after publication. That would be the book I'd happily buy.
"Buy"?! You should be writing that baby! We, your reading public, await with baited breath. (Enjoy the return, DV - I know better than to call a trip to one's homeland a "vacation".)
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