ROBERT TOWNSEND
a series of life story posts
Istria, February 2014, In the Morning
 Istria, February 2014 Grisia St. at Night In December and January, Rovinj sleeps. The days are overcast and rainy. The streets are quiet and empty. On...
Istria, January 2014
Bihac, Bosnia-Herzogovina WWII Massacres, Bosnia Last week Patrice and I went to Bihac, Bosnia-Herzegovina for our ninth wedding anniversary. Driving from Bihac to Velika Kladusia (border town...
Istria, December 2013
Rovinj, December 2013 Harbor, Cathedral and street in the medieval city Days this side of the Adriatic tend to be cool, but sun-drenched. I understand that...
Thirteen Coats, A Translation (from Russian)
Thirteen Coats, A Translation Serge Kotlar and I (Yay!, Merrill, Wisconsin) translated Thirteen Coats from Russian to English  as research for the next book in The Long...
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, Â Danton Larionov, son of the NKVD executioner and a...
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 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,...
Arriving Rovinj
Patrice reported our travels from the United States through Venice here and here. We stayed in Venice five days. Â Venice, even stormy, flooded and windswept, was charming, warm and inviting....
