How We Annoyed the Giant of Lake Cerknica

Lake Cerknica. an intermittent lake which – as the terminus technicus suggests, and as you can see – isn’t always there. Summer is a tough time for the lake that is so magnificent in spring, mysterious in autumn, and ice-bound in winter. This marvel of Nature can cover almost thirty square kilometres at its greatest … Read more

Rab, the Bright Dark Island

Relinquo vos liberos ab utroque homine– Saint Marinus Land versus sea. Barren limestone versus fertile flysch. Forest versus stone. History versus bliss. Saints versus fiends. Light versus darkness. A locus of opposites jutting out into the Kvarner Bay in the northeastern Adriatic, a two-faced island. It almost touches the mainland, lying barely a nautical mile … Read more

The Birth of a Festival: Rab Island, Croatia

WOOOOOOOOOOW!!!– everyone It was but a dream. Yet it was perfectly, unbelievably real. A kite workshop we could only dream of was happening right there in front of us, under the watchful eyes of Žuža and Žare, deep in the adrenaline forest of Lopar on Rab Island, Croatia. Unlike our never-ending, rolling, chaotic, death metal … Read more