20 years in croatia

20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 10. Raising Children

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As all Dads will tell you, becoming a father is an incredible experience, a journey I could never have envisaged ...

20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 9. Dealing with Online Trolls

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There is no feeling quite like coming home from the pub, logging on, and then finding your name being trashed ...

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20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 8. Business Meetings

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One of the things that really confused me during my early days in Croatia, especially in the cities, was the ...

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20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 7. Safety

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When I bought my house on the island of Hvar 20 years ago, several of my good friends were quite ...

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20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 6. Moving Vegetables

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About 15 years ago, I was driving through Republika Srpska from Hvar to Belgrade to visit friends in my father-in-law’s ...

20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 5. Love to Hate to Nirvana

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As with most things in life, my relationship with Croatia has changed over the last 20 years. I have been ...

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20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 4. Croatian Wine

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Soon after I moved into the apartment above my soon-to-be parents-in-law, my father-in-law took me down to the garage. He ...

20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 3. Bureaucracy and Mindset

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I am a child of the Soviet Union.  No, this is not some revelation that I have been leading a ...

20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 2. Olives

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Back in 2002, my relationship with olives extended little further than knowledge of the phrase ‘to extend an olive branch’ ...

20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 1. Business and Dalmatia

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In August 2002, I set off with friends from Sarajevo to the Dalmatian coast for a long weekend to look ...