A work in progress

Please bear with me, gentle visitor! I have too many pictures and too many memories of the summer past to sort through. Describing and illustrating the summer will take me well into the winter. Everything is 'a bit' disorganized at the moment, but I am getting there. Don't get perplexed by the order of the entries below -I'll be that for both of us! I do the blogging late at night (after sorting through my yahoo albums, ghrr), usually when I can't sleep (which is always) and when I drink walnut liquer to help me sleep except that it doesn't - it only makes me want to drink more. To see more pictures, please visit my yahoo photo site:http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/biancatur/my_photos This seemingly happy girl is me in Zadar

The summer: Part 1

Branka, Marko and I were scheduled to fly out of Zagreb on August 17th. We arrived to Zagreb three days earlier and stayed with my aunt who's a nun and lives in a small village close to Zagreb. We had a huge room to ourselves where my aunt pampered us with bringing breakfast and coffee to bed. The house where she lives houses about 50 nuns. They have huge grounds complete with well-tended vegetables patches and flower beds.
A nun drove the three of us to Zagreb and dropped us off at the Kaptol, 'Gornji Grad' (the upper town - old town), where we visited the cathedral that was under construction, walked along winding little streets, looked at handicrafts, ate good food, sat down for coffee. We spent all day walking in Zagreb. It wasn't so hot and thank god, it wasn't raining either.
Zagreb has never looked better. Its green parks, flowers everywhere, rennovated buildings, well-groomed people... this all made me want live there. Who knows, perhaps one day...
I made hundreds of pictures in Zagreb. It was close to impossible to narrow down my choice for the blog. Try as I might, I have a feeling I didn't choose the ones that could truly represent Zagreb.

The Croatian Parliament building and the Croatian flag  

Zagreb's trademark: St. Marko's Church with the mosaic roof that shows Croatia's and Zagreb's coats of alm

Branka going down the spiraling stairs of the Lotrscak Tower  

The Zagreb Cathedral from the window of the Lotrscak Tower  

A pearplexing picture... 

As the world goes by a poet looks on 

Dream of a Purple Cow Milka - one of my favourite brand of Chocolate  

Chocolate Factory  

"Thank you for every little penny" reads the sign as the musicians are busy entertaining and feeding their puppy.  

Looking down from the Old Town  

Horse- and manpower  

St. George 

The house of godly gifts music and drama  

Rappers  

Marko and Branka in front of the Croatina National Theatre  

The Croatian National Theatre  

Geometry  

Cable cars in Zagreb, among the oldest in Europe  

No bikes, no guns, no dogs - how norma in a country that's freshly out of the war  

Feeding frenzy  

My new friend  

The goths marching by 

The big-(bell)bottomed beauties. My nephew asked me to take a photo of these marching ladies.  

Quo vadis? Looking a bit lost...