The 2018 Sarajevo Film Festival
About five years ago I gave up going to movie theaters. I finally conceded that they, along with any other dark venues featuring flashing lights, were a trigger for my…
HVAR
Not much beats a lunch of espresso and gelato on vacation (the caffeine/sugar combination is the perfect afternoon pick-me-up and tide-me-over until a dinner location is decided). And no destination…
What to Do in a City with Nothing to Do
“Pristina? Where is that?” “It’s the capital of Kosovo,” answered my husband. I immediately informed him I would be crashing his work trip. We were in Sarajevo, and in no…
Sarajevo’s Famed Cable Car is Back in the Mountain Climbing Business
Sarajevo is freaking gorgeous. Situated in a small valley in central Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), orange tiled roofs and conifers of every variety descend from the tops of evergreen-covered hills…
Waiting for Barbara Streisand
Through the long months of rain and the snow, tucked between the Sequoia, Pine trees, Magnolias and Palms in Portland’s Washington Park, a magical little garden remains quiet and dormant.…
A Day in Dubrovnik
I always have a plan. And I used to almost always have a color-coded travel spreadsheet – a beautiful, multi-tabbed document detailing business hours and transportation routes and hotel check-out…
A Birthday Road-Trip to Jajce
What better way to celebrate my birthday than with a road trip to a medieval village, killer waterfalls and a castle on a hill? Almost none, I tell you. Jajce,…
A Short List (10!) of Must-Do’s in Istanbul
I love history. I was even one of those weird kids who loved history in grammar school. And I can say with relative certainty that though Istanbul was occasionally mentioned…
