Month: November 2013

A weathered tree trunk carved into a humanoid figure outdoors.

The Executioner’s Son, Suzdal, NE Russia, early 1950s

On a spring day in 1953 on Illian Meadow across the Kamenka River and beneath the walls of the Suzdahl Kremlin,  Danton Larionov, son of the NKVD executioner and a...
Nighttime waterfront with boats and cozy indoor seating area.

Arriving in Rovinj, Croatia, November 2013,

Travel Notes Collage, Rovinj Patrice and I have settled in  Rovinj, Croatia, until at least 15 April 2014.  The first apartment we rented (12th century plague house)...
Book cover of 'The Star of Istanbul' by Robert Olen Butler featuring a woman on a couch.

Book Review, Hot Country and The Star of Istanbul by Robert Olen Butler:

While traveling these last two weeks via Istanbul, Venice and Trieste to Rovinj, Croatia I have been rereading Robert Olen Butler's Christopher Marlowe Cobb novel,  Hot Country  and its follow-on,...
Coastal town with colorful buildings and a tall bell tower at sunset.

Arriving Rovinj

Patrice reported our travels from the United States through Venice here and here. We stayed in Venice five days.  Venice, even stormy, flooded and windswept, was charming, warm and inviting....