Around the World

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 5 You hear Plitvice before you see it. I walked in from the upper entrance, to Plitvice lakes down a path thick with beech and fir, and the forest did what forests do — muffled the world, shrank my attention to the ten meters immediately […]

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 4 Zagreb’s trams have been running since 1891. But the real heart of the city is Dolac — open every morning since 1930. Locals call it Zagreb’s belly. There are cities people visit to see landmarks. Zagreb is not one of them. Zagreb is the

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 3 The morning in Istria doesn’t begin with coffee. It begins with a cow. She was already awake when I walked to the barn — the kind of cow that has done this so many times she finds the human’s nervousness slightly embarrassing. The farmer

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 2 I arrived in Lovran by scent. The laurel got there first. Lovran – The town is named after a tree. I didn’t know a place could be named after a smell. In Croatian, lovor means laurel — the bay leaf, the Roman victor’s wreath,

Around the World with Beyondia 🧵 Mediterranean Region 🪡 Episode 1 I crossed the Adriatic and arrived somewhere Italy forgot to invent. – That was the first sentence I ever spoke about this journey. It was also the first sentence that turned out to be true. Rovinj was an island until 1763 Not folklore —