Croatia

Croatia, apparently. Of the 251,287 secret US Embassy cables which Wikileaks began making public yesterday, 2,053 relate to Croatia, according to the 'Cables by Country' graphic on Wikileaks Cablegate website. Bosnia & Hercegovina is next at 1,419, followed by Serbia & Montenegro, with 1,244. Slovenia comes in a distant fourth with 947,…

Just thought someone, somewhere, might find that tidbit useful.

Dolphins as PR/tourism icon are everywhere in Mali Lošinj. So it made my day to see a school of 10 or so during a relatively brief boat ride to Susak, a small…

This is the Pula Arena (or amphitheatre, or coliseum), in the Istrian city of Pula, Croatia. Built in the 1st C. AD, it's the sixth largest of 200 surviving Roman arenas. The last time I visited here was 32 years ago. Well maintained these days, at its peak it was able to accommodate more than 20,000. There's a nice little museum on the premises…

The Croatian island of Lošinj is the northernmost area of Europe where lemons grow. That tidbit tells you quite a bit about what to expect from this northern…

It's not very new, but surely, this deserves a few more views, no? Via a BBC story today on corruption and organized crime in Croatia comes this youtube vid (in Croatian) of Josip Matanović, a former VP of Croatia's Privatization Fund (CPF), accepting a big ole envelope of cash. Can anyone help with some quick translation? Direct link is here.…

I've mentioned Wine Library TV before, an informative and entertaining wine tasting program hosted by New Jersey-based Gary Vaynerchuk. With more than 80,000…

When you’re bopping through Croatia’s Istria peninsula, don’t forget to look inwards. Inland that is. Smack dab in the center of Istra is the village of Motovun…