THAT ONE THING (September 12, 2009)
Renata Vrtarić likes to tease me about my intellectual ways. Too critical of everything! Not positive enough about anything under the sun! Just before I left Motovun this morning, she solemnly asked me to report upon my return from Zagreb at least one thing to my liking that I have witnessed during a week in the Croatian capital. Anything would do! Anything at all! And I dutifully promised to oblige. The day is not yet over, and I already have that one thing to report to Renata upon my return: this evening I saw at least a hundred Chinese, Korean, and Japanese tourists in the center of the city. God bless them all! Croatian faces bore me to death by now.