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Running Away to Home (Croatia)


Destination: Croatia

Book: Running Away To Home (our family’s journey to croatia in search of who we are, where we came from and what really matters) by Jennifer Wilson (NEW October 2011)

Book: A Traveller’s History of Croatia (2010), by Benjamin Curtis

Sea view. Rovinj, Croatia
Picturesque Croatia

Winston Churchill said, “The Balkans produce more history than can be consumed locally.” 

Croatia–the hot travel destination of the early 21st century.  No wonder, with all those beautiful beaches, islands, ancient cities.  But then again, Jennifer Wilson and her family travel to a different Croatia entirely. Running Away to Home: Our Family’s Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters is Wilson’s story of setting off with her husband, son Sam (9) and daughter Zadie (5) to discover the Crotia of her ancestors.

(And how about that subtitle? No need for synopsis, is there?) They go to the real Croatia of small village life, subsistence existence, simmering ancient feuds and endemic alcoholism.  The one negative her friends all worry about–war–was ended several years ago when the Croatian-Serbian warfare finally ended and the former Yugoslavia was split up for good. Continue reading Running Away to Home (Croatia)