Moving Fast
Posted on April 19, 2006
21 Rastoke u Slunj, Lika region Dobar dan, prijatelji… I spent three days in Zagreb, during which most everything was closed due to the Easter holiday. Still, I managed to acquire enough provisions to last the weekend. I cooked a few meals with local food and Nannette shot some nice images; we’re gradually building a work rhythm, but it’s tricky because we’re moving so quickly through the country. Adam was three hours early picking us up, and we’ve been moving briskly along ever since. Yesterday, on the way to the coast, we stopped in Slunj in the Lika region for breakfast with Ivan and Bernarda Vučeta, who rent rooms to travellers at their place on 21 Rastoke. Smoked meat, homemade bread from flour ground on a 13th century hydro-powered mill, fresh homemade cheese, wine, plum brandy (well, everythting was domaći… homemade). They reminded me of my aunt and uncle, Rose and Howard Mewes in Pocahontas, Illinois. The air was fresh, the evironment clean; no one could ask for more. 
From there we drove through some of the war-ravaged portions of the countryside en route to the coast. Very sobering. My emotional response was surprising, and it deserves far greater focus than I have time for currently. We will be in Split tomorrow, near Trogir. At some point we will roast a whole lamb in Plitvice Lakes National Park. I am being inundated with material - enough for several books - and look forward to digging into all of the data and bringing the big picture together.
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Glad you’re enjoying our country :-)
Try to taste “Viška pogača” if you get a chance. ;-)