The dome at Diocletian’s palace is now up there with my top 25 domes!

Vice Tomasović, ‘Phenomenology of Human Existence’ (2018)

Ljubo Babić, ‘Black Flags’ (1918)

It doesn’t matter how roasting the weather is (and it IS today) nevertheless I can never enter a pool more than two inches at a time.

Miljenko Stančić, ‘Dead Child’ (c. 1956)

Why are those who most use the word toxic to describe people so often the people who are the most toxic?

Spent the whole morning swimming about in the Adriatic Sea. Highly recommend.

A holiday by the sea is good for your health.

Gertrude Stein once wrote that a rose is a rose is a rose but she never banked on this beetroot salad.

I think William Faulkner would have approved of the bar lighting choices here.

Trogir is such a calm little town.

Well, goodbye Croatia. We will miss you. Back to bonny Scotland in the morning!

It would be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad.

I exist as I am, that is enough, if no other in the world be aware I sit content, and if each and all be aware I sit content. —Walt Whitman

Something very modern art about it, no?

Oh dear…

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either— but right through every human heart —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Is it, I wonder, because it's one of his more didactically political novels?