As soon as you pass through the hassle-free border control, the terrain starts to get interesting. The hills gradually envelop the road until you doubt that you're anywhere near the sea. And then -- boom -- you hit the village of Herceg-Novi and the southernmost fjord in Europe. With the mountains visible in three directions and the blue, blue water before you (they say the Adriatic current sweeps the detritus into Italian waters, leaving Montenegro with the sea's clearest), it's as if you're the only people on Earth, and indeed the number of cars on the road would scarcely disprove that notion. Herceg-Novi gives a taste of what is to come on the Montenegrin coast: a humble port, ruined 14th-century ramparts, tiers of cobblestone walkways connected by nearly vertical staircases, cluster...
Travel the ex-communist region between the Baltic, Black and Adriatic seas, and, sadly, you will not find one united, modernizing government. Instead, there is sleaze and racism in Slovakia's government, eccentricity and petulant incompetence in Poland, an admission of blatant lying by Hungary's prime minister, and no government at all in the Czech Republic. Western Europe could do more. The mean-minded protectionism aimed at the ex-communist countries has undermined belief in the fairness and neutrality of European rules. Why can rich countries' banks move capital freely throughout the single market, when poor countries' plumbers and dentists may not sell their services where they like? Perhaps. But now there is another factor: Russia. The past week has seen more signs of Russia's slid...
In Europe, new UNESCO World Heritage sites are the ancient stone walls, shelters and landscape of Stari Grad on the Adriatic island of Hvar in Croatia; 17th century fortifications along the borders of France; innovatively designed Modernist housing in Berlin, dating from 1910-1933; the Italian towns of Mantua and Sabbioneta, cited for architecture and their role in Renaissance culture; eight wooden churches dating to the 16th through 18th centuries in Slovakia; the Rhaetian Railway, which includes two historic railway lines in Italy and Switzerland that cross the Alps; and Mount Titano and the historic centre of San Marino, which dates to the 13th century.
.... The first is the centrality of Europe in the global security balance. In 1946, Winston C... Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain [had] descended," cleaving Europe...
..., and participated in operations on the Adriatic Coast. In January 1945, the Polish Second Corps fo...There are an extremely large number of Europeans who are anxious to immigrate to America and especi...
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The next day, we'll head south for a day's visit to Montenegro. It's about an hour drive along the coast. If we are lucky, locals will be out along the roadside offering samples of the region's famous plum brandy and fruit preserves. We'll spend a day in Pula, the commercial centre of Istria, which is dominated by one of the best preserved Roman amphitheatres in the world. They still use it for concerts and theatrical performances, more than 2,000 years after it was built. In the afternoon, we'll take a ferry to the island of Brijuni, once the summer home of Yugoslav dictator Josip Tito and now a Croatian national park. (Pula is also [Sonja Paunovic]'s birthplace, so I might have to let her do some of the talking here.) The next day, we'll head across the Istrian peninsula and be within...
... stories in the reconstruction of central Europe after the fall of communism in the 1990s. Just ove... and slender strip of land that hugs the Adriatic Sea was embroiled in a bitter civil war following ...
... exception of Otranto, a tiny town on the Adriatic coast, where 800 men offered their lives for Chris... before the Ottoman Turks encroached on Europe. Otranto stands closest to the Ottoman-controlled ...
Our taxi tour with [Vido] was a sobering introduction to this UNESCO World Heritage City, but his first-person history lesson on the effects of war was a real educational experience for our children. After several stops at scenic overlooks and a bit more of our history lesson, Vido handed me a map and drove to the Pile entrance gate of Dubrovnik's Old Town of Stari Grad so that we could spend the day exploring on foot. History seems to ooze from every street corner in Dubrovnik. Near the entrance of the Stradun you can see the Onofrio Fountain that was built in 1438 and a Franciscan monastery that contains one of the oldest pharmacies in Europe, which has been in operation since 1391. At the far end of the Stradun are Sponza Place and the baroque church of St. Blaise. The Rector's Palac...
Before leaving Frankfurt, Germany, I asked my "virtual" students for driving route suggestions. Only a few predicted my route over the Alps and down to Brindisi in southern Italy to catch the overnight ferry across the Adriatic Sea to Igoumenitsa, Greece. From there, I drove the Chevy Blazer to Turkey where I spent a week holed up in sweltering Istanbul waiting for the techno-bits and the staff from GlobaLearn, a Connecticut-based educational company, to arrive. In the meantime, videographer Jerry Vienneau flew in and we gathered equipment for the upcoming Turkish learning expedition. We attended meetings in ornate buildings. Jerry filmed street life. We even picked up a few Turkish words in the process. The rug shop "sales consultants" we met by the daunting Blue Mosque suggested ways ...
... would avoid political problems in Eastern Europe and give me a chance to relax and reflect on what ...
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