The Armchair Traveller

I mentioned in an earlier blog posting that my ethnicity was half Croatian and half Polish. As a child, I attended Polish classes once a week to learn the basics of the language as well as learn more about the culture. One of the things I remember most clearly from those classes was a story [...]

I am sitting in my office, my first morning back to work since before christmas. I am cold (it is currently a nasty 11 degrees celcius and cloudy and there was rain earlier this morning – not what the ‘Summer’ is supposed to be in Wellington ), I am tired and not very interested [...]