Opinion
Caught Between Gen Z and a Virus: My Dubrovnik Summer Survival
Jul 27,
2025
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I feel like I’ve been hit by a train. Not a fast train, mind you. More like one of those slow regional ones. The train didn’t just hit me—it reversed…
“Your articles almost always get more people reading them when you write a critical one about something, people just seem to be drawn to negativity,” an editor once said to…
Confessions of a Dubrovnik Convert: Why the Afternoon Nap Became My Survival Strategy
Jul 13,
2025
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I used to think napping was for the weak. Or the very old. Or toddlers in soft socks. Afternoon slumber was, in my metropolitan mind, a luxury afforded to those…
Why We Blame Dogs While Bulldozers Kill Trees
Jul 12,
2025
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Cities are made of friction—and few things bring that friction - to the surface like a dog relieving himself. Not long ago, in one of those 21st-century neighbourly assemblies where the…
Suitcase Symphony: Inside Dubrovnik’s Friends-and-Family Festival
Jul 05,
2025
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We have a picture hanging on the wall, in fact right in front of where I am writing this, it reads: “A house is just a house. Friends and family make…
Two Weddings and a Funeral: A Hugh Grant Weekend in Dubrovnik
Jun 29,
2025
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By all accounts, I’ve had a Hugh Grant weekend. You remember that hit romantic comedy from the 1990’s Four Weddings and a Funeral. I almost did that in a long…
When Mexican writer Alejandra Gotóo returned home after several years in Europe—including a formative stay in Dubrovnik—she found herself measuring every new landscape against the Adriatic city that had captured…
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