We don’t have a single verb to express smelling something nice. Welsh and Croatian, by contrast, are never caught short when something fragrant gets right up your nose
I remember the first time I reme…
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Tourist reveals how a diving holiday ended in tragedy when his friend failed to surface - and his ensuing horror at being accused by police of his murder ⊖
A new book documents the extraordinary story of how a Czech man's Croatian holiday turned into a nightmare when his friend decided to explore an underwater cave.
70 days ago
‘I had to plunge the knife into the canvas’: Edita Schubert wielded her scalpel like other artists wield a brush ⊕
In her day job, the ‘first lady of Croatian avant garde’ sliced up cadavers at Zagreb’s anatomical institute. In her studio, she used the same medical instruments to make art that surprises to this d…
74 days ago
Croatia approves radioactive waste site despite Bosnia protests ⊖
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Croatia's parliament passed a law enabling construction of a radioactive waste facility near the Bosnian border. The site will store waste from the Krško Nuclear Power Plant and Croatian medical faci…
78 days ago
Fifa urged to halt World Cup ticket sales after ‘monumental betrayal’ of fans ⊕
Prices five times more than 2022 Qatar World Cup
FA to confirm cost for England matches on Thursday
Fifa has been urged to halt World Cup ticket sales after it emerged countries’ most loyal fans faced …
3 months ago
Serbian president faces legal complaint in Sarajevo ‘sniper-tourism’ case ⊖⊖
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Milan allegations link Aleksandar Vučić to 1990s shootings of civilians in Bosnian capital by Italians and others
In the snipers’ sights: life under fire during siege of Sarajevo – in pictures
A Croati…
Blaze in Croatian capital Zagreb destroys landmark 16-storey Vjesnik news tower ⊖
The fire seemed to be extinguished by Tuesday afternoon, although the metal and concrete construction was still smouldering.
Fiume o Morte! review – darkly comic reconstruction of D’Annunzio’s Yugoslavian coup ⊖
Igor Bezinović uses local residents of what is now Rijeka in Croatia to re-stage the vainglorious Italian protofascist’s ragtag takeover of the Adriatic port city
This intriguing documentary from Croa…
4 months ago
Tim Dowling: I’m under an azure Croatian sky – fretting about the roof back home ⊕
This should be a blissful break, but I’m distracted by the roofer’s messages relaying our house’s ongoing problems. My wife, meanwhile, remains firmly on holiday
I’m sitting on a terrace overlooking a…
5 months ago
Michael Caine comes out of retirement again for Vin Diesel sequel ○
The veteran actor will be reprising his role as a priest who helps Diesel’s immortal warrior stop the plague in The Last Witch Hunter 2
The actor Michael Caine has again come out of retirement for one…