The magnificent, rocky coastline of Croatia reaches from Dubrovnik in the South, past a myriad islands, large and small, up to the Istrian Peninsula in the North where it joins the Italian coastline on the other side of the Adriatic sea. This country, which suffered badly during the Balkan wars and uprisings, is now looking to join the European Union and has recently opened up for tourist development. Pauline and I had always wanted to go to Dubrovnik, a historic walled city which has been diligently re-built after bombardment and heavy artillery fire during the 1991 uprising.
It seemed a waste of air-fare just to go to Dubrovnik, so we explored a map of Croatia and surfed the internet for Lace information. We already knew of the Pag needlelace, but were not so familiar with Lepoglava bobbin-lace. Pauline felt that we must include some embroidery, and found that gold-embroidery was worked in the far north-eastern corner of the country. This meant a tour round the entire country, which spans the northern Balkans like a curve above neigbouring Bosnia in the south. The only way to do this, was to take local transport, having first booked hotels in our chosen towns. We had to take into consideration the days that Museums closed (Mondays) and the limited times that we could fly in and out of the country and our itinerary changed constantly, with helpful negotiations by our local travel agents. Finally, on Monday May 19th, we were ready to go. Angela -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 2983 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len - To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [EMAIL PROTECTED] For help, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
