Yesterday morning I discovered an unassuming leaflet on the bar counter at Klaudio’s. It advertised a concert in Motovun, which was to take place yesterday evening. The Duo lirico, the leaflet announced. Soprano and guitar, as it turned out. The sponsor was no less than the Croatian Ministry of Culture. Although the duo struck me as rather uninviting from the very first, I had to go to the concert. I simply had to. Why? Because it was given in honor of Josef Ressel, the inventor of the ship propeller, who died exactly a century and a half ago in Ljubljana. As a forester, he spent a few years in Motovun, too, which is why the lower square of our town proudly bears his name. Now, what in the world could the unlikely duo have to do with the poor inventor? Having been at the concert together with less than a score of other music buffs from Motovun, I am still in the dark. And so must be the Duo lirico, I am quite sure.