Where are you from?

MOU, I'll be in Osijek in September on our boat cruise on the Danube River to Budapest.

332.5 km between both of your places :wink:

David Moore's photograph of Sydney Harbour.

I live near one of those bays at the top!

Cool photo Margo! And cool place to live.

margo, I remember when I took that cruise on the Sydney harbor and visited many of those coves. We went all the way from the pier in Sydney to the Pacific Ocean.

Walter, is there anything you don't know?

Yes, 'tis a good place to live. When (if) I grow up, I'm going to move even closer to the water!

Walter is our resident encyclopedia and historian.

btw Clary, I like your place too
C.I. just remember - fish paprikash and Ilocki traminac

This is fascinating - I have found a picture of the hospital I was born in!! Somewhat earlier than my residency i hasten to add..

Then for a while I lived in Surrey and went to this school


But my parents decided to go back to Devon so I lived in Newton Abbot

But went to university in London

Then worked out of London and lived in picture postcard village

Before marrying, and moving to Delhi - and going for picnics in the grounds of this tomb



After 2 yrs in England we moved to Hong Kong for 17 years

and only after that did we come back to Devon, to Totnes (see above)

MOU, I made a hard copy of your post to take with me on the trip to make sure I order fish paprikash and Ilocki traminac. I'll let you know if I like it or now.

IF you like it??
Believe me, you'll like it
Well, traminac you will like if you like vine, and I never heard of anyone not liking fish paprikash

and inspired by Clary's beautiful post I'll try to do the same

Town pic is few posts above.

So, that's where I learned to swim and on bank made my first steps with mom waiting few steps away - river Korana, the most beautiful of four rivers in my town:



Then, I went to this high school (Gymnasium Karlovac, where also famous world scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla went to school):



I love my town and love living here...although, wars are not that nice - central street in my town - gray, all windows broken, all houses "wounded"...



But, surprise surprise, wars stop eventually - same street:



And, most important for a town with croatian biggest and oldest brewery...Beer festival can start again :

MOU, I always like to try the local beer when I travel. What's the name of the most popular/best Croatian beer? BTW, nice pictures. You're whetting my appetite for my trip; getting anxious to see your part of the world.

That is lovely, MOU, you have shown us a great snapshot of your town. I must visit it one day! So good to see the wounds are healing.

Clary and MOUN

Great stories with pix.

I was born in tampa florida, the lived for about 8 months in Thomasville, Georgia. Moved back to Tampa until I turned 24. I married my husband and moved with him to Orlando, Florida - the HOME of Walt Disney World.

Would anyone like pics? lol

C.I. - most people would probably say "Ozujsko", some would say "Karlovacko", and since you were in Osijek they will probably try to persuade you that it's "Osjecko", although this one really suck

clary, margo -thanks

onyxelle - actually I would really like pic of Thomasville, Georgie if you have one I love small american towns, they are really cute

Fajardo Puerto Rico

welcome

I am amazed at the beautiful beaches in Puerto Rico so much