Our final family excursion near the Croatian village of Viganj took us past a cliffside chapel, down through a heavily vegetated ravine, along a rarely used road … to a small beach carved out under a towering wall of rock. The view was serene, the colors were perfect … and there was a...

Mladin is the handyman and mechanic in Viganj, Croatia. He lives one block off the coastal road, halfway between the church and Cafe Carmelo. I visited Mladin’s shop one day when one of our house bikes popped a tire. I was told he was called “Max” for “Mad Max,” the apocalyptic...

Gigi and Poppy’s visit to Croatia to see their daughter, their son-in-law, and their grandsons was a comic series of events: their luggage was lost on their inbound trip, Gigi broke her shoulder after braving Croatia’s bracing waters with her grandsons, Gigi relied on Croatian...

During our time in Croatia, we had the privilege of encountering some very dear people.  We lived next to them or bought bread from them or asked them a bazillion questions. Kharmen lives next door to the house we rented.  She and her young friend Ava noticed that E had trouble riding the...

We said goodbye this week to Croatia on a hulking ferry bound for Italy. Our last glimpse of the country was the one pictured above – of Split, Croatia’s harbor, as seen from the ferry’s rear deck railing. A group of Catholic pilgrims were near us at the rear of the boat,...