Thursday, February 23, 2012
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Croatian Music Evening in Ottawa
Join me for a Croatian Music Night in Ottawa
If you live in Ottawa, please pass this on. Thx! There will be wine tasting too!
http://bit.ly/CroatianMusic
If you live in Ottawa, please pass this on. Thx! There will be wine tasting too!
http://bit.ly/CroatianMusic
Friday, February 10, 2012
Weather in Europe...
Every time I turn on the computer or the TV, I see all this bizarre weather happening around Europe... and here I sit in Ottawa, where we are used to quite a bit of snow, and really our winter has been quite mild. Ottawa's Winterlude is on right now, and with the temperatures around 0, the canal is not frozen, which means no skating on the longest skating rink in the world. According to the American groundhog, it says 6 more weeks of winter, the Canadian groundhog says spring is on the way. Who are we to believe?
I wanted to share this picture of Split. Keeping in mind Split is only 2 hours by boat from the Island of Korcula.
I am totally blown away! I cannot believe that I am looking at palm trees with snow on them!
I talked to Renci and Silvana in Lumbarda on Skype today, and for those of you who don't know them, they are the owners of the wonderful accommodations we stay in... and Silvana is our amazing chef! Anyway, all is good on the island and they had a little snow but nothing like the picture above. They did mention the Bura was very strong.
The Bura is a northern to north-eastern wind. The changeable Bura can often be felt all over Dalmatia, Istria, the Slovenian Littoral, Trieste, and the rest of the Adriatic east coast. It blows in gusts. The Bura is most common during the winter. Once my sister and I flew to Croatia for Christmas and arrived in Frankfurt, only to be told that we would have to fly to Split, not Dubrvonik (where our dad was picking us up!) because the Bura was so strong it had closed the airport and the main bridge. Mother nature is a wonderful woman!
As we prepare for our spring tours I can only hope that the Canadian groundhog is correct and we are all in for an early spring.
I hope this finds everyone well and why not tell us, how has your winter been treating you?
I wanted to share this picture of Split. Keeping in mind Split is only 2 hours by boat from the Island of Korcula.
I am totally blown away! I cannot believe that I am looking at palm trees with snow on them!
I talked to Renci and Silvana in Lumbarda on Skype today, and for those of you who don't know them, they are the owners of the wonderful accommodations we stay in... and Silvana is our amazing chef! Anyway, all is good on the island and they had a little snow but nothing like the picture above. They did mention the Bura was very strong.
The Bura is a northern to north-eastern wind. The changeable Bura can often be felt all over Dalmatia, Istria, the Slovenian Littoral, Trieste, and the rest of the Adriatic east coast. It blows in gusts. The Bura is most common during the winter. Once my sister and I flew to Croatia for Christmas and arrived in Frankfurt, only to be told that we would have to fly to Split, not Dubrvonik (where our dad was picking us up!) because the Bura was so strong it had closed the airport and the main bridge. Mother nature is a wonderful woman!
As we prepare for our spring tours I can only hope that the Canadian groundhog is correct and we are all in for an early spring.
I hope this finds everyone well and why not tell us, how has your winter been treating you?
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