Zagreb Style. . .

Do you remember that when I first visited Zagreb last year, Dottoressa introduced me to spica, the Zagrebian custom of dressing up and meeting friends for coffee on Saturday morning? Sadly, we didn’t have a…

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Zagreb: Photos and Journal Illustration

This will be a long-ish post, but mostly pictorial, and I thought I’d begin by offering you the agenda: 1. I’ll transcribe my journal entry for yesterday; 2. I’ll make a claim about Zagreb (it’s…

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Postcards from Zadar: About Travel (Un)Planning with a What I Wore thrown in. . .

This trip is a relatively long one for us — we’re over four weeks in, with a little over another week to go before flying home. I planned the first three weeks carefully — all…

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Page from my Travel Journal. . . And Thoughts About Things We’re Not Good At

As promised, this watercolour sketch from the travel journal I’m gradually filling this trip. I should tell you that I began this page by trying to draw another very similar historical-architectural remnant, also being used…

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Postcards from Ston, Croatia

 I haven’t been pen-and-ink sketching in my written journal much this visit,  doing watercolour sketches in a separate journal instead (I’ll post my latest watercolour tomorrow or Wednesday, flaws and all). But a few mornings…

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