by Heidi Webb | Jul 18, 2023 | 2023
Having boarded our flight from Dubrovnik to London for a connecting flight to Boston, I took my seat between my husband and Aaron, a young British father holding Avery, his twenty-month old daughter. Aaron was seated in the aisle seat across from his wife, who was...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 18, 2023 | 2023
While in Croatia I had an experience that made me recall a children’s book called Miss Rumphius, a story about a little girl who aspires to do something to make the world more beautiful. In that storybook her “something more beautiful” was planting lupine seeds...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 17, 2023 | 2023
Zivjeli, or after one drink just “Jer”, is the customary drinking toast in Croatia. We were told that it roughly translates to “long life”, and that it’s important when toasting to look into one another’s eyes; without that connection, the meaning isn’t...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 13, 2023 | 2023
As we meandered our bikes along the backroads of Zagreb and Split, Slunj and Korenica, we were in the vicinity of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where much of the Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991-1995. Homes and the people living in them were hit hard by...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 12, 2023 | 2023
The opulent Vienna Opera House is no secret, but scoring tickets to Figaro while visiting there was certainly an unexpected joy! Going to the opera in Vienna was on my bucket list, but when I’d tried to purchase tickets a couple of months before our planned trip, I...
