My beloved hurt her foot a few weeks ago. According to her doctor, she is not well enough to drive from Zagreb to Motovun this Thursday, as planned, and thus I will take the bus to join her the same day. I am sorry for her, although her condition is not all that worrying, but I am rather elated by the unexpected change of plan. The hilltown I still call home is up to my neck already. It is high time to leave it for a while. I am not sure when I will be back, but I will not be in any great hurry to return, to be sure. When my beloved feels well enough, we will come back together, but I cannot imagine us staying apart for very long. The cold months are behind the corner, and I am likely to stay in Zagreb a good portion of the fall and winter. Soothing, this. Painfully soothing, too. When I only remember how hard I used to find leaving Motovun even for a few days…