At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

Crystal and I made a quick stop in Trebinje while we attempted to complete our “three countries in one day passport stamp collecting extravaganza.” Trebinje is a small town located about 24km from Dubrovnik, Croatia, a location we ended up in after perusing various bargain holidays at the LSE student travel agency (and it turned [...]

It’s missing an “F” but I think you get the message that this particular graffiti artist was trying to convey. I snapped this particular photo in April 2005, while Crystal and I were on our “three countries in one day” Balkans extravaganza. We had taken a bus from Dubrovnik, Croatia to Trebinje, a small town [...]

“If you want to see heaven on earth, come to Dubrovnik.” – George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright but, more importantly, co-founder of the London School of Economics I’ve found my heaven, and it is the Dalmation Coast. You can have Hawaii, California, the Caribbean Islands, whatever, just give me a flat in the Old City [...]

Tomorrow, Taline, Crystal, and I head off to Dubrovnik, Croatia: Now, you may be thinking “Spring break in Croatia…what?”, so here’s a few photos of Dubrovnik to give you an idea of what Croatia looks like: Beautiful, yes? Not exactly the same Croatia I remember from the evening news a few years ago. I’m not [...]