Berat and Gjirokastra are inscribed as examples of an architectural character typical of the Ottoman period. These two sites from Central (Berat) and Southern (Gjirokastra) Albania, are more commonly known as “the city of a thousand windows”(Berat) and “the city of stone” (Girokastra). Albania was ruled quite a long time by the Ottoman Empire in different periods from 1479…
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Surfing in New Zealand
This is a story about one of the best sport experiences, surfing in New Zealand, that became a kind of turning point in my life. Everytime I am in a bad mood or something doesn’t go well, I go back to this adventure and I get a proper mindset to go forward. 🙂 Getting back…
Mysterious Virpazar. Montenegro. Lake Skadar.
In such a small village like Virpazar, which population in 2011 was around 300 inhabitants in total, you are not expecting to see such a variety of different professions and talents. However this lovely town can be proud of its local artists and artisans. One of them is Ljilja who is producing by herself very…
Budva Riviera …”I have shored against my ruins”
“I have shored against my ruins”, wrote T.S. Eliot in “The Waste Land”, suggesting that the only way to salvation from the chaos of modernity (and I would add, from any other kind of chaos, such as chaos of information, that we experience everyday), is through necessary confrontation with the labirynth of fragments and ruins…
More koje vam nedostaje…The sea that you miss in Herceg novi
Strategic position at the entrance of the Boka Bay, has made from Herceg Novi an important city. Tvrđava Španjola (Spanish fortress) due to Spaniard owners of the city for one year (1538-1539), is only one of three other fortresses (Kanli Kula = Bloody Tower and Sahat Kula=Clock Tower), finished under the Ottoman Empire, ruling those…
Place in the sun
Place in the sun #1 Recycling the memories, work in progress thinking about different ways of re-cycling the memories from distant places on the imaginary maps Creating individual map of visited places can become a mental exercise. It is a never ending process, re-cycling souvenirs and memories that become parts of our current image of…
Now, where is it?
Originally posted on PolkaLady Art & Travel:
It is not Switzerland, nor Austria or other country with Alps inside of the photo’s frame. What is fascinating about this place, is that, you can dream all along the journey from one city to another and waking up in a complete different reality. It’s not in China…
The story about seven sisters from the sky
The story of Seven Sisters (also known as Pleiades)
Dreamtime stories
What is “dreamtime”? It is a very particular period, called “golden age” in Aboriginal tradition, when everything has been created. Dreamtime is fulfilled of stories of sacred ancestors, whose spirits exist in the present. They can be found in the sky, which is, for Aboriginal community, like a true textbook Here Aboriginal people read the…
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