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Croatia days 30-31: Zagreb

September 18th: Mostly a rest day. For lunch, we headed for a Curry Bowl restaurant only to find that it had apparently been abandoned years ago and its patio overgrown. (Online photos of the place showed tables where those bushes are now.)

So we went to a nearby sushi restaurant instead. The fish was very fresh.

Carol chose 3 rolls. Probably a better deal.

September 19th: Breakfast at the bakery by the bus station. I went (uncharacteristically) for pizza while Carol grabbed a slice of cheese pie.

Then we took an Uber up to the Gornji Grad (“Upper Town”) section of old Zagreb. And I do mean “up”.

It’s higher than the rooftops of most of the rest of the city, and has great views.

It’s such a steep drop that there’s a cog railway spanning it.

We wanted to see the Museum Of Naive Art, but it was closed. So we spent quite a while in the Museum Of Broken Relationships.

Then we just cruised around the neighborhood for a bit.

I thought I saw a tiny hummingbird in a flower bed, and spent several minutes trying to catch a photo of it. This blurry image is about the best I could do. But I now think that it was probably a hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum).

For lunch, we found where the Curry Bowl restaurant had moved to.

Carol had Hot Butter Calamari and I had the Black Pork Curry.

3/4

A darkness in the north. We form a square,
me in the south, my loves at east and west.
But straight across from me, there's no one there:
Elijah's place at Pesach, with no guest.

My light's not bright enough to penetrate
this darkness, or to make it go away.
So till I can embrace it, I must wait,
and find the mirror empty every day.

Ah, tender soul who stumbled through that spot,
You weren't ready. How could you have known
the hopes and fears that hung upon the place?

I thought that I had left you enough space.
Perhaps it wasn't. Sometimes all we're shown
of what we seek, is what we see it's not.

for Tom
Visalia, October 9, 1998