As you have hopefully already heard, Croatia is having a national stand at the London Book Fair this year, for the first time ever. In fact, it is the first time that any republic of the former Yugoslavia has taken a stand.
So why have they decided to take this step? Well, it is part of a series of events organised to highlight the country's culture and achievement by the…
Preview of my book of photographs from the Rijeka Carnival in Croatia, available from Blurb...
Held on the last Sunday before Lent, the wild and wonderful Rijeka Carnival is one of the largest Carnival processions in Europe - an enormous event with up to 10,000 participants from around 100 Carnival groups, and well over 100,000 spectators.
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The Croatian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 presented today during a live TV show press conference. The show was actually funny as the lights went off during the presentation! Klapa s Mora Ensemble presented in play back their song for Malmoe, titled Mizerija. The song is somehow interesting (the vocals were amazing although playback) for the hard core Eurofans but I guess it will be boring enough (in terms of outdated music style) to score high in the scoreboard.
We expected a lot of snow,but not this much .
It started snowing on Friday morning 2/8/13 and stopped on Saturday, sometimes around 14:00 here , in Milford CT.
I haven’t seen this much snow here since I moved to CT in 1999.
Actually, I can recall only 2-3 times in my lifetime when snow-covered the cars as much. If I were 19 years old I’d probably have a party and completely enjoy it, but after you hit 50+ and have not spent your life on the ski slopes, you practically like to see snow from your window, with a hot cup of tea, or coffee or anything as long as you are safely in your home and away from this white damage.
Anyway, I said, this was a photo-saga, not a rambling saga, so here come the photos (and if I knew how to post a slide show, instead of gallery, I would do it, but the little slide show button disappeared and I can’t find it .
Oh, by the way, as I write this, the workers are outside on our parking lot and they are digging out our cars from under the snow mountains, the sound of machines beeping and making a noise was never as welcomed as it is now. Tomorrow, I will take my camera again and take a photo of their wonderful work .
I was so happy to stay at home…..but I had to go outside and snap photos, and by the way, have you seen my Snowman ?
Be safe and warm, New Englanders……we’ve got through this. We won !
