tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26674307982845069842024-03-06T04:58:35.492+01:00The Young ExpatA Travel LogSlyyKittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441307220347902121noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667430798284506984.post-12010991713579991152012-10-16T19:40:00.002+02:002012-10-16T19:40:22.552+02:00Hiking in the Heather<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Classes started off with the Archaeology department first years going on a field trip. Our destinations? Creswell Crags, Stanton Moor and Arbor Low! Oh what funny English names they have here :)<br />
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I would like to start with the lovely and very stereotypical English weather... it rained all day. We got into the coach and drove to Creswell Crags. There are multiple sets of caves but we only visited 2. The first cave held the earliest and I'm pretty sure only english cave drawings. It sounds really cool but there where only 3 that where distinguishable so they where a bit of a let down. The other cave was interesting because it was inhabited at one point. That is until the nice guide pointed out giant spiders that looked like <a href="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/46858000/jpg/_46858591_cavespiderstephenmorley.jpg">this...</a><br />
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Our class in the spider infested cave</h3>
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Hardhats with lights!</h3>
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Next we went to Stanton Moor to look at the nine ladies, a set of small standing stones from the Bronze Age. My professor started complaining about pagans (he called them nutters) when one student pointed out some dangly bits hanging from the trees. Apparently they make it hard for archaeologists to study certain sights because they go around placing small stones and other objects in or around the circles. It was a small hike to the circle and we saw a barrow that had been excavated by what people here call antiquarians (basically victorian age treasure hunters thinking they where archaeologists). Here are some photos from Stanton.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The Cork Stone: Huge naturally formed sandstone. The steps where carved into it to allow people to sit on top.</h3>
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After this picture was taken I climbed half way up but the metal rings where freezing and made my hands burn.</h3>
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My friends looking wet and cold... because they where hahaha!</h3>
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The Nine Ladies</h3>
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Then on to Arbor Low which is this really cool sight in some dudes cow field. It's a stone circle and barrow from the early Neolithic. Describing it is a bit hard so here are pictures :P<div>
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SlyyKittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441307220347902121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667430798284506984.post-63087594515055740102012-09-17T19:12:00.003+02:002012-09-17T19:12:54.487+02:00Back again!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hey all sorry I keep missing months of posts. I've been a very busy bee!! I spent the whole of June in Italy with my boyfriend Zack. We went to Rome, Tuoro sul Trasimeno, Florence, Siena, Milan and Turin. The first two weeks of July was spent with my family in Apt France and then back to DC for the last bit of summer. We spent 4 days in NYC seeing family and getting my visa, then I headed back to DC while Zack went to Brockport NY to see his family. I flew up to see them all and we had the best Buffalo wings ever (in Buffalo at <a href="http://www.duffswings.com/">Duffs</a>). Then on to the Dunes, my families summer house in Dune Acres, Indiana. Zack and I spent the weekend in Chicago doing touristy stuff as he had never been there before. We saw lots of my friends and had a blast. I'll upload pictures eventually but I'm still a but busy.<br />
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I just arrived in Bradford, West Yorkshire England 6 days ago. I'm getting my undergraduate degree in Archaeology at <a href="http://www.bradford.ac.uk/external/">The University of Bradford</a> and classes start next week!!! I'm soooo excited!!! Zack was amazing and dropped me off at school. He spent 4 days with me hiding in my room as I live with 3 really religious girls from Oman. They didn't know he was here and I'm hopping they never find my blog because they would be pissed! I was thinking of deleting this bit but I thought you would find it funny picturing him tiptoeing down the hall to get a piece of pizza. I had to put him on the train today as he is going back to Croatia. He'll be writing his Master's thesis this semester back in Dubrovnik. I'll miss him like crazy but I'm determined to work hard in my classes and make friends so the time wont seem so long. This will be a very new experience for me as English universities work in a completely different way to US ones. I'm still an Expat so I'll keep you posted on all of the strange things that happen here in the north of England.</div>
SlyyKittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441307220347902121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667430798284506984.post-22958071609698997612012-05-19T16:50:00.000+02:002012-09-17T19:26:26.821+02:00Croatia: North VS. South<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I met Mum in Zagreb and we stayed for 4 days. Zagreb is Croatia's capital and has a distinctly Austro Hungarian feel. The difference between here in Dalmatia and the North is huge. The culture, architecture, food, and even the language is different. I think it has to do with the fact that down here in Dubrovnik we are so Mediterranean. There isn't a lot of land you can build on because the sea is on one side and the mountains are on the other. I think the best thing to do is show you what it looks like so here are a few pictures:<br />
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Houses in Dubrovnik are made more or less the same way with little to no ornamentation. This picture is from my balcony because I live halfway up the mountain. This is just <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Ploče neighborhood and an extreme example of what I described (the land and see squish). The other parts of Dubrovnik are wider but with the same problem.</span></span><br />
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Up in Zagreb there is way more land so buildings can be larger and taller.</div>
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Dubrovnik: The green is mostly cypress type trees and scrub brush. You can see Old Town and Lokrum on the bottom right and to the left and behind Old Town stretches the rest of the city. Most tourists don't go further then Old Town so the rest of the city has a very local feel.</div>
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Zagreb: You can see that the city is stretched out much farther and has lots and lots of space. That green is all lush grass, trees, and bushes. The kind that need lots of water and rich soil.<br />
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If you look down towards the bottom of the country you will notice this odd bit of land stuck in-between the Croatian coastline.</div>
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That my friends is Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Herzegovina part is important to the Croatians so you can't leave it out when you're talking about the country. The difference between the two is that Herzegovina is where all of the Croatians in Bosnia live. Bosnia needed a sea port so they where given one.</div>
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The problem? It means to get to anywhere from Dubrovnik by car you have to go through two checkpoints. The hope is that once Croatia is officially part of the EU, sometime in the next year, they will build a huge bridge highway thing that will connect the country.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">This is part of Zagreb's <i>Time Machine</i>. An event that takes over all of Upper town, the idea behind it being to show Zagreb's cultural history in a fun and interactive way. This is the Promenade Concert in Zrinjevac park, just a block off of Ban Josip <span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;">Jelačić</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"> Square. </span>I was glad to get such a good recording of the orchestra playing. The band was playing in the music pavilion which has been standing since 1891. The event will be every Saturday this spring with the last performance on the 7th or July.</div>
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Hey everyone!! I'm 4 months behind so I'll try to make it up to you before I leave Croatia. Thats right, I have only one more month left in this beautiful country :(<br />
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But the good news is the blog will go on. I will still be and Expat as I will be in Italy all of June, France for two weeks in July, and back to the US for the end of July and all of August. Yet I stay an expat as I will finally park my butt in beautiful West Yorkshire, England. Thats right! I will be attending The University of Bradford for a degree in Archaeology!!!<br />
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Heres the link if you want to check out my new school: <a href="http://www.bradford.ac.uk/external/">The University of Bradford</a><br />
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So I'm going to skip around just a bit. Its going to be this April as Mum came to visit me for 10 days. Then I'm going to do Jordan, Istanbul, Ljubljana and Budapest.</div>SlyyKittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441307220347902121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667430798284506984.post-71998420059679923702012-04-29T14:19:00.004+02:002012-04-29T14:19:44.769+02:00I'm Back!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Hey everyone!!! I'm sorry I was gone for so long. I have had the unique experience of being computer-less for almost 4 months. During my travels in January I left my computer in the Turkish airport. Luckily I was staying in Istanbul for a day between flights and I was able to get it back. A week later I had left Zagreb (Croatia) and was enjoying Ljubljana (Slovenia). My computer thought it would be fun to melt down and show me the gray screen of death. Sooo all of my pictures before the trip have been erased but luckily all of January was safe on my camera!!! Quite a lot has happened and now I can finally fill you all in on the various details.<br />
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Mum was visiting for 10 days and brought with her my brand new MacBook Pro!!!! It was so much fun to have you Mum and thank you sooooo much for for all my new presents (I got an external hard drive and other gadgets).</div>SlyyKittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441307220347902121noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667430798284506984.post-33869788861802254312012-01-14T16:23:00.000+01:002012-01-14T16:29:47.896+01:00Where’d the time go?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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computer in the Istanbul airport while transferring planes from Zagreb to
Amman. The great thing is I was going to have one day in Istanbul because my
flight back from Amman had a layover. The Lost and Found is hard to find and
you can’t get to it with out leaving the main airport, but it all worked out
after I proved that my computer was in fact mine. I was so happy to see that
they had it I almost left my passport with the guy at the desk. So now I’m in
Zagreb with all my belongings and happy as a clam. I will post the Jordan trip
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Sign for the Christmas Market<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<span>There is this great cable car that gets you up the mountain for about 35 Kuna or $8 and it goes at an incredible pace. I went up with Maggie when she came to visit and we reached the top in about 3 minutes flat. From the top you can see all of old town (which I can see from my balcony but at an angle), Lokrum Island and most of the other sections of the city usually only filled with locals not tourists. They are Lapad, </span><span>Gruž,</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;"> </span></b><span>Babinkuk, and </span>Plo<span>če (not to be confused by the gate of the same name). Here are the pictures enjoy:</span></div>
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Apparently construction workers in Croatia
are actually on time. Now if we had known when they where coming it would not
have been such a shock, but a whole crew of men were at our house ready to put
in new doors and windows at 8am. Our landlord’s son woke us up saying that they
where ready to start with us. We quickly got dressed and moved things out of
the way so that they would have a clear path. The landlord’s son came back and
said they would start downstairs. Its now 1:45pm and they just started working
on us. Zack didn’t have to get up early for the first time in about a week. So
what I’ve learned from this is that although builders are on time, no one knows
when their coming and don’t check with them first to see where they want to
start, so don't expect any sleep.</div>
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Since I was up here is what the day looked like at 8am.</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Construction of the Franciscan Monastery
began in 1317 but was not finished until sometime in the 1400’s. Adjacent to
the Monastery cloister is one of the oldest, continuous pharmacies in the world
(it has been functioning in the same spot for 694 years). The Pharmacy now
sells current medicine and is fully equipped with modern gear. This however
does not prevent it from proudly displaying its past. Lining the walls are beautifully
painted jars that use to house remedies for the patrons. Luckily the Monastery
has a Museum that displays both their own collection and that of the Pharmacy’s.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a priest smoking in a corner... he was trying to hide but we saw him.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Old mortar and pestles used to make remedies.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Medicine Droppers 18th century.<br />(There was lots of trade with Venice so blown glass could be made to order)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Prescription Book with 130 recipes.<br />18th-19th Century</td></tr>
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Semen Cardamomi consists of the
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Because I mentioned that Dubrovnik was unseasonably warm, here is a shout out to Ray!</div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">So we have been super busy for the last two
weeks. My friend Maggie came to visit us on the 6<sup>th</sup> which was so
much fun. She had to sleep in our breakfast nook which is pretty comfy but right
in the kitchen. This meant she was woken up every morning by the sound of either
breakfast being made or hot water for coffee/tea (looking back that doesn’t
sound to bad). We got to do all the touristy things I wasn’t aloud to when we
first got here. This meant souvenir shopping, looking at horrible little
chachkies and admiring over priced olive oil. We also did almost every
historical sight/museum in the old town. There will be whole posts about the
things we saw. Mags and I made a new friend Sujin. She was a guest lecturer at
DIU (Dubrovnik International University) currently getting her </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">PhD at Harvard</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">. We did the apothecary and wall tour with her and had lots of ice
cream. We had this massive Halloween party really late (November 12<sup>th</sup>)
because actual Halloween was a 5-day weekend and no one was here. Plus because
this is a catholic country Halloween is a day to remember the dead, not get
candy. The day Mags left (Sujin left the day before) our friend Tiona came, she
teaches/works at DIU while getting her PhD at </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Harvard (that’s how
we got Sujin to guest lecture). </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">We had her over for dinner and I made an apple/pear
tart that was gone before any pictures could be taken. Basically it’s been one
event after another for two weeks straight. On a good note I managed to plan
our entire January. We will be in Jordan with my parents from the 6<sup>th</sup>
till the 13<sup>th</sup> and then we head for Zagreb. Next up are Ljubljana and
the three bridges then on to Budapest and its opera house where we will end our
trip before coming back to Dubrovnik. One full month of travel and I can’t
wait.</span></div>
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a hill that overlooks the water is that we can watch the storms move. The
clouds are easy to see no matter where you are but when you look out over the
water you can see exactly where it’s raining. The amazing thing is there is
never a light drizzle or a steady slow stream. All you get is a sheet of water
that blankets every thing, blocking out even Lokrum, which is a huge island
that’s only a 5min kayak away. The worst one we had so far was October 13<sup>th</sup>
in which there were torrential downpours, hail and quite a lot of thunder and
lightning. The lightning actually struck part of the monastery and because
there where no surge protectors the computers, phones and Internet where out
for 4-5 days. Here are some of the storms we had and the pictures I took. The
best was the one during sunset so the rain is golden orange and you can see it
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This is Old Town and the harbor.<br />
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October 8<sup>th</sup> A rain storm at sunset.<br />
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Sometimes the rains get so bad that the stairs turn into waterfalls, the
streets look like rivers and if your not careful you can get washed away. Don’t
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That was the Stradun, my grocery store and bakery (the building with the umbrella lady gets washed into), but I think the nun was a nice touch. P.S. She’s standing at Ploče gate and looking at the street I wave to walk across to get
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<br />SlyyKittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441307220347902121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667430798284506984.post-71609696703262458482011-10-15T20:36:00.001+02:002011-10-15T20:41:45.303+02:00Monastery Library<br />
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The university is housed in the upper portion of the Dominican Monastery
right inside <span style="color: #222222;">Ploče </span>gate. One of my friends
who works for the university gave some of the professors and myself a tour. The
two upper wings of the Monastery where the school is situated were the original
inhabitants library. The collection of books dates back to the 12<sup>th</sup> -13<sup>th</sup> centuries but few
books remain from that time. Most of the collection that is left is from the 14<sup>th</sup>-15<sup>th</sup> century. When the
French took over the city under Napoleon they stole large portions of the collection. The Hymnals that remained
within the collection are about 3 feet wide and 2 feet tall. They where made to
be used by everyone so the notations for the songs needed to be legible to all,
hence the size. You can also see the older ones from the before the 15<sup>th</sup> century do not
posses the bars or lines we associate with modern musical notation like this <a href="http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/images_playlist/chant_music_manuscript.jpg">http://www.classicaldiscoveries.org/images_playlist/chant_music_manuscript.jpg</a>.
The books need conservational attention desperately as there are insect holes
in almost all of the books as well as general deterioration.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />SlyyKittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441307220347902121noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667430798284506984.post-37050398910201018052011-10-15T20:28:00.000+02:002012-05-19T22:17:06.406+02:00Anniversary!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We had our anniversary dinner last Friday
and Zack got me the most beautiful necklace as a present. It’s a traditional
Croatian design found in the Dalmatian region called Konavle
buttons. Mine was made by this wonderfully eccentric man with a great moustache.
He explained every step was done by hand, including pounding thin strips of
silver and folding them into intricate designs. The work is amazing because the
ball is hollow and the amount of detail is enormous. You can’t tell in the
photo but the bits that look solid are really pieces of silver that have been
folded into a fan shape and fit into the gaps. The traditional Konavle buttons where made of gold not silver. They where also much larger
ranging from about the size of a golf ball (for special occasions and the rich)
to large cherries (for personal decoration). I was told by one of my friends
that they where also given to girls at their conformation because before that girls "did not fully appreciate jewelry”.<br />
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OK I fixed the settings so everyone should now be able to post comments.
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I love my breakfast. I love the way butter melts into my warm golden
brown toast. The yoke of the egg as it spreads over the buttery surface. I
generally prefer fresh bread cut from a loaf as apposed to that pre-sliced
stuff. But let me explain for a moment. When we as Americans think of toast we
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Yeah I know. What’s inside are pieces of bread that look like toast;
except that they’re not toasted, have a sponge cake like texture and have
nothing to do with toast at all!! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Have you ever had a sandwich where the bread was spongy? Americans are
used to that soft pre-sliced stuff that makes the perfect PB&J or BLT. Here
Toast is only good for toasting. Now this wouldn’t be
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problem</span> except we don’t have a
toaster. “No problem” you think “I’ll just put it in the oven.” That would
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A gas oven needs gas, makes sense. But gas comes in those tanks people
hook up to their grill and we have no idea how to get or install one. So I’ve
been living for almost a month with no working oven, and no baking (but that’s
a whole new post so never mind). Luckily as I was typing our landlord came by
to measure the windows (don’t ask me why). He said he will get gas for us so I
can bake again!!! We also pointed out the wasp nest on our patio. This was very
comical because Zack was making buzzing noises and pretending to sting his arm.
Our landlord doesn’t speak English and we don’t know how to say wasp in Croatian.
He got the message though and I’m guessing will return to kill them at some
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Not that I’ve gone way off topic we return to breakfast. Here the eggs
are not as pasteurized and are fresh because there are no large chicken farms.
Some of the eggs you get from the store still have a feather stuck to them. The
eggs come in 12 packs but those have a tare here middle. By late afternoon all
of the 12 pack eggs are gone or left in groups of 6. The only other large group
of eggs you can get is a set of 10. Here is a picture of the 10 pack and you
can see how bright the yoke is in the picture of the pan. Here is also my
solution to not having a toaster or working oven when it comes to toasting my ‘toast’.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>SlyyKittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441307220347902121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667430798284506984.post-28467959303438580102011-09-29T09:12:00.000+02:002011-09-29T09:12:24.274+02:00Laundry Day: Dun Dun Dun
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Let me start by saying that in Croatia there is no such thing as a
dryer. The only exceptions are in expat homes (those with the money and space
for one), wealthy people who don’t want their clothes waving in the wind, or the
Laundromat. In most peoples cases The Great Outdoors is all you got. Some
washing machines have build in "supper spin cycles" that get stuff
mostly dry. The idea is to then let your clothes sit there till they're
"done". We are fortunate enough to have a washing machine of our own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">But it would help if we could BLOODY UNDERSTAND THE THING!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Having Croatian settings would be hard enough for us, but no
they just have to be in…. Slovenian? The best is the difference between Vklop
Izklop: Turn Off and Izklop Ozemanja: Spin off. The Turn off button is also the
on button so the cycle will run, but you have
to press both buttons to get the machine to drain. Otherwise you have water up
to your ears and you can’t get at your clothes. This wouldn’t be a problem for
some but we have a front-loading machine. Lets just say I had to do some quick
mopping and Googling to find the word for drain or spin. That of cores is too
easy and all I got was </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Pumping, Spinning Short</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 27.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Well here are the
settings and their translations:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 27.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 27.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Izpiranje<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 27.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Mehcanje<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 27.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Ozemanje<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 27.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Oplemeniteno<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Pumping, Spinning Short</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 27.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We took a day trip to Imotski for a friend’s
birthday. The drive during the day was beautiful though the sunset over the
mountains on the way back was amazing as well. Imotski is this little village
about an hour from Split and feels like it only has 100 houses in the entire
town. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imotski">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imotski</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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There is this amazing guy that we
met (and I can’t remember his name) but he started this music program in the
local schools. He was some big musician in Zagreb but got tired of what he was
doing and went back to Imotski. Now he composes and has gotten almost every
child to play an instrument in school. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Another fun thing is what’s called
and Imotski Tort. It’s made with almond flower, egg whites, sugar and a normal
pastry crust. The interesting thing about it is the intricate latticework crust
and almonds that are used for decoration (they stick them straight up in the
dough).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The River Vrljika is a karst (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karst</a>)
river that flows for 14.3 miles (23 km) through Imotski’s fields. We ate lunch
at this restaurant that was outside right on the edge of a slower part of the
river. The water is so clear that you can see the plants growing at the bottom.
I’ll put up some pictures below for you to see what I mean.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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They also have Blue Lake and Red Lake
with better pictures on Google maps than what I took so I’ll give you the link.
They are named for the colour of the rock that surrounds them. Blue lake you
can swim in and actually drink out of if you go to the center when the water
levels are high. The natural spring that feeds it is really clean but during
the summer it can dry up almost completely. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The sunset behind the mountains.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That’s all for now as my computer is
about to die (12% battery) and I’m going to the beach!</span></td></tr>
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</div>SlyyKittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441307220347902121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667430798284506984.post-85988230657540146682011-09-28T16:59:00.001+02:002011-09-28T16:59:29.042+02:00Sorry so much to do!!
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">Thank you all for the lovely comments. Sorry I've been gone for so long
I was applying to GW and finding it difficult to do from Croatia. Let me tell
you sending a fax normally drives me crazy. Add a few country codes and my head
almost exploded. The amount of documentation needed to transfer schools is
absurd; of cores all of it needed to be signed by me as well (hence the faxing).
I think people make it to hard just to weed out the weak and the faint of
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">To answer your question Tom, yes I am trying to learn Croatian and it
has its ups and downs. It uses the Roman alphabet and is phonetic once you
figure out what sounds the letters make. There are only 30 letters in the
alphabet but each letter is pronounced separately and there are a few letters
variations (Č Ć DŽ Đ LJ Š Ž).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />SlyyKittenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16441307220347902121noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2667430798284506984.post-66023072612704882082011-09-16T15:39:00.000+02:002013-08-10T05:57:34.084+02:00Hello Dubrovnik!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We finally made it after 3 flights and a short car ride to
Dubrovnik. The old city is truly beautiful with its marble-smooth streets that
glisten as if wet. The high walls that surround Old Town were built in the 10<sup>th</sup>
century and were restructured slightly in the 13<sup>th</sup>. The main gate is
Pile to the West and has a stone bridge from 1538 that runs over the old mote.
The mote now is a lovely garden that I have not yet had the pleasure of
visiting. Plo</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Lucida Grande"; mso-bidi-font-size: 27.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">če gate to the East is the other main gate and I
live up the hill from it. It’s been a little over a week since we arrived and
have now moved into our apartment. This will be a fun ‘base of operation’ as I
plan to take trips (funding permitting) to Kotor in Montenegro, Prague in the Czech
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