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Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 17June1970: On The Mediterranean en Route To Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia

Dear Diane and Gerald: We boarded a Russian cruise ship the Adsharia in Piraeus in Greece. There are 3 stops. It is the first cruise of the season so there only 35 people on a ship that can carry 330. The first stop is Corfu, then Venice and then Dubrovnik. I met a handsome GermanContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 17June1970: On The Mediterranean en Route To Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia”

Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 3August1970: Bled, Yugoslavia: The Terrible Food in Yugoslavia: My Last Time in Yugoslavia!

Dear Mother, Meg and Murph: We are now in the republic of Slovenia in a fairytale town of Bled. We arrived yesterday and will remain here until August 9th when we will take the train to Munich. We will meet our friend there who has a car and we will be visiting the Black ForestContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 3August1970: Bled, Yugoslavia: The Terrible Food in Yugoslavia: My Last Time in Yugoslavia!”

Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 20July1970: Pag Island, Yugoslavia: The Terrible Food in Yugoslavia

We are all packed and ready to leave for the other end of Pag where will spend a few days before going to Rab and then after to Krk. Look at the map. We are on the coast of Yugoslavia nearing Italy. Had a long letter yesterday from Fritz and he has all kinds ofContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 20July1970: Pag Island, Yugoslavia: The Terrible Food in Yugoslavia”

Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 9July1971: Hvar Island, Yugoslavia: A STARK NAKED MAN SMOKING A PIPE!

I was up at 6 this morning. I went to the market to buy, cucumbers, peaches, bread and sliced meat for breakfast. ROB GOT UP, ATE AND WENT BACK TO BED. It is 10 now and very bright and sunny and becoming a hot day. I am sitting outside on the patio with the lastContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 9July1971: Hvar Island, Yugoslavia: A STARK NAKED MAN SMOKING A PIPE!”

Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 25June1971: Korcula Island, Yugoslavia

Dear Barbara and Andrew: Barb, as far as I know we will le leaving from Frankfurt to get to New York and we will be seeing Fritz in either Munich or West Berlin but I will definitely know when I get to Hvar because we are waiting to hear from Heidi. Korcula is beautiful, oldContinue reading “Travels to a Different Time: Travels of My Mother: 25June1971: Korcula Island, Yugoslavia”

RKS Film: “Tabija” (The White Fortress): Hoodlum Meets Girl from a “Good” Family

Faruk (Pavle Čemerkić) lives with his grandmother in one of those socialist tenements from the old Yugoslavian communist days in the infamous city of Sarajevo. He has a day job collecting scrap metal with his uncle. He also runs girls for the big boss Cedo who amongst his other businesses is a pimp. Faruk hasContinue reading “RKS Film: “Tabija” (The White Fortress): Hoodlum Meets Girl from a “Good” Family”

“Travels to a Different Time” : 12August1974: Bled, Northern Italy and up to Kufstein Austria

Happy 19th birthday! Last year of being a teenager. I packed up which I find a bit of a pain as just when I think I am done I see something I have forgotten to pack. And since my Munich bag broke I really have to cram my possessions, as meagre as they may beContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 12August1974: Bled, Northern Italy and up to Kufstein Austria”

“Travels to a Different Time” : 10August1974: Bled, Yugoslavia: Is Nixon Resigning? Playing Soccer

The Germans gave me a lift to the bus terminal so I could take a bus to Bled. Yes back to Bled again. Back to the youth hostel I stayed at on my last visit. I picked up my mail at the post office and there was a letter from Heidi’s mother saying that HeidiContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 10August1974: Bled, Yugoslavia: Is Nixon Resigning? Playing Soccer”

“Travels to a Different Time” : 9August1974: Bohinj, Yugoslavia: Falling Apart, Getting Numb and on Stage Playing with the Band

Up at 8 and headed into town to buy some supplies for breakfast. Hitched and got a ride with some Germans but as I got into their car my leather money pouch snapped. I was told by tourist information where I could get the pouch sewn up. Smashed glasses, ripped Munich bag, lost watch andContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 9August1974: Bohinj, Yugoslavia: Falling Apart, Getting Numb and on Stage Playing with the Band”

“Travels to a Different Time” : 8August1974: Ljubljana and Bohinj, Yugoslavia: Clean Buses and a Dip in the Lake Surrounded by the Julian Alps

After a late night woke up at 13:00! I made a massive farewell meal of 6 eggs, bread, cheese, cherry juice and an apple. Paid my bill and off on the bus to the bus terminal. Twenty minutes later on the bus to Bohinj. The buses in Slovenia are modern and they don’t stink likeContinue reading ““Travels to a Different Time” : 8August1974: Ljubljana and Bohinj, Yugoslavia: Clean Buses and a Dip in the Lake Surrounded by the Julian Alps”