A bit more than two weeks ago, on November 13, I received registered mail summoning me to a hearing in the Pazin Municipal Court scheduled for today at one o’clock (“Welcome to Motovun!” November 13, 2008). This morning at ten o’clock I received registered mail from the same court informing me that the hearing got postponed for some unspecified reason to January 16, 2009, at nine o’clock. The court has given me three full hours to adjust to this new information, which only shows that Croatia is indeed a state based on law. Smooth and precise, its judicial system operates like clockwork.