When my husband proposed an October trip to West Virginia, I was skeptical. I had a hard time (okay, impossible time) coming up with any of...

It has taken me seven months and 44 posts to cover our trip to the Balkans in May-June 2013, perhaps the most adventurous trip we have unde...

We spent our last day in the Balkans wandering around Zagreb, enjoying a visual feast. This rather strange statue of a man appearing to s...

Picture from here Before our trip to the Balkans, I had never even heard the name of Ivan Mestrovic, but by the time we had made our...

In the old town section of Zagreb is a very old Catholic parish church, St. Mark's Church, originally built in the 13th century and r...

There is nothing like a good outdoor market in Europe. Similar markets here are like comparing a kitten to a tiger. Ours are cute and frien...

The drive from Split to Zagreb is absolutely wonderful. There is a brand new autobahn-style freeway that had very little traffic the day we...