Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Found: Another Perfectly Delicious Waste of Time
(From Krista B's Sestrunj Virtual Tourist site) Subtitle on this picture is " Bocce is the game where they throw balls to get as close as possible to one small ball - team that comes closer wins.
How simple. How exciting!
We were observing finale of Mothers-in-law against Brides category. Guess who won?"
I've been spending an overly extravagant amount of time at this site. The author of this Virtual Tourist site is a Slovenian woman named Krista B who seems to be somewhere in her mid-40's and is blessed with a good camera eye and a talent for writing English in a foreigner's dialect that makes her travel commentary insightful and hilarious. Her take on the island of Hvar and Dubrovnik are especially worth checking out.
Since this summer will be sans vacance, reading about someone else's, especially one spent in Croatia, will have to do. There's nothing like the Adriatic, the rocks, the clear-to-dark water changes, the food...As the ever-loving wife observed on our vacation there last summer, "Croatians must be part lizard and part fish. That would be the only explanation for some of their behviour." What was she referring to? While driving up the Magistrala Highway from Dubrovnik to Rijeka, it is not odd to see a car in front of you swerve off to the side suddenly. Car problems? Hardly. As you pass by, you see the occupants gathering towels together and, as you look in your rear view mirror, they pile out and jump over the guard rail to a tiny spot of a beach. If the water's not calling them to swim with the fishes, the rocks are seranading them to lie down, relax, take in the sun, and bake like a lizard.
So, for at least this summer, I'll be clicking and reading and dreaming of the possibilities of next summer, another summer of the lizard.
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For the full vacation-at-home experience, you should pack and live out of a suitcase in your living room for two weeks. Then send postcards of your coffee table to friends and family.
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