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...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 11, 2023 | 2023
For clarity: this blog is linked to an earlier one in our series, “Whole Brain Adventures”, which discusses the work of Jill Bolte Taylor. After recovering from a massive stroke at the age of 37 years old, she discovered that she could recognize when she was...
by Heidi Webb | Jul 11, 2023 | 2023
Over the course of the past couple of weeks, I went traveling with my husband: first to visit family in London, then to Vienna to retrace the footsteps of my husband’s grandmother before she immigrated to the U.S., then to Croatia for a bicycling adventure, and then...
