Balkan Travels

Jim cooked breakfast, as usual. We walked outside to the end of our building to the market and bought a bottle of wine to take to lunch in the village where our teacher, Dragana, had invited us for lunch at her grandma’s. We never know what wine is good.  We drove SE from Belgrade for…

Saturday. I only slept 3 hours. Nothing new. I cope ok when i have a few nights of only 6 hours in a row, but when I dip below 5 after numerous nights of only 6 i don’t feel good and don’t handle stress as well.  But I enjoyed a slow morning in the apartment…

We had no problem getting to Belgrade until we got to our building. Even though our host had given specific instructions, they weren’t good enough. We knew we were close but did not see anywhere to stop the car, nor did we see any signage for the building. We drove around the big block on…

A week has passed since we were in Vrdnik. Here is a summary of  our few days there… Wednesday. After breakfast on the terrace (Jim walked to the bakery to get us goodies to go with our eggs and veggies), we decided to take a walk up the hill behind our place that we had…

I’m sitting on the covered porch at Oaza Mira (peaceful oasis). 8:30 am, not hot yet but it’s expected to reach 95. Rooster is crowing, another sound that makes me happy when we travel here, reminding me there are still people who know how to grow and raise their own food. Morning sun is lighting…

I did not sleep much after the wedding and so was too tired Monday to go for a long walk as we had hoped to do. We had breakfast on the balcony again (Jim cooked, as always) and neighbor Dula saw us and asked us to come over for coffee which we did after breakfast,…

Sunday morning while eating breakfast on the porch our neighbor, Deda (grandpa) Dula, walked over to the part of his yard closest to us and greeted us again as he had done a couple days earlier. He again asked if we might want to come over for coffee. We said yes, but we could not…

Saturday lunch with family at Mio’s and walk to a female Monastery It’s Sunday morning. I just greeted ‘grandpa Dule’ our host’s neighbor who is called Grandpa (Deda) because he has been here a long time and was the ‘first neighbor’ to move here. I am on the small covered deck at our apartment in…

It’s 4:08 Thursday morning.  After sleeping about 6 hours Tuesday night I have so far slept zero tonite. I’m very tired but cannot fall asleep. I’ve tried many things that sometimes work-  I read, I did number puzzles, I wrote in my journal. Most of the time I’ve laid in bed in the dark, doing…

It’s Wednesday, almost 8 am Zagreb time (11 pm Tuesday Seattle time). I got about 6 hours of sleep (in 2 batches) and am still very tired and my neck extra sore from lugging my heavy carry-on bag around 3 airports yesterday. I wish I had access to the pain relief gel that is in…