What could be better than a combination of a famous drink and a famous pub.September 1987. Three weeks of autumn pleasure in Paris. When you throw yourself in the everyday life of the locals, when you have a weekly ticket for the bus, metro and suburban train. Every morning I took the train from Andrésy…
My Grandmother, Cook at the Imperial Court
My grandmother, a tiny woman with a big heart and golden hands. When I say imperial court, I am talking about the Austro-Hungarian court in Vienna. As a young girl, she went to Vienna and got a job in the court kitchen. I have no idea what exactly she was doing, but it has to…
Jack Kerouac and I at Sam Wo’s in San Francisco
Jack Kerouac. My favorite writer of the beat generation of the fifties. I have no idea how many times I’ve read his book On the Road. Definitely every time I went on a trip to the US. And I always wondered if I was more Sal or Dean.And so in the summer of 2001 I…
The Beginning
All my airports, landing, take off or just lay over Brnik Jože Pučnik Airport, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Edvard Rusjan Airport, Maribor, Slovenia; Vienna International Airport (Schwechat Airport), Vienna, Austria; Vincenzo Bellini Airport, Catania, Italy; Pristina International Airport, Pristina, Kosovo; Dubrovnik Airport – Čilipi, Dubrovnik, Croatia; Split Kaštela/Resnik Airport, Split, Croatia; Zagreb Airport – Pleso, Zagreb, Croatia;…
Prologue
“We’re going to discover the North Pole.” “Oh!” said Pooh. “What is the North Pole?” he asked. “It’s just a thing you discover,” said Christopher Robin carelessly, not being quite sure himself. A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh …