Split, Croatia

Panorama of Split from the "working" part of the port.

Remember what I wrote about advertising and culture ... it took me a long time to figure this one out ... and it's in English!

Another thing that changes around the world is graffiti. Like music, it is representative of our times and especially how young people view themselves in relation to their culture. This was near the Diocletian Palace.

Another thing that changes around the world is graffiti. Like music, it is representative of our times and especially how young people view themselves in relation to their culture. This was near the Diocletian Palace.

Another thing that changes around the world is graffiti. Like music, it is representative of our times and especially how young people view themselves in relation to their culture. This was near the Diocletian Palace.

While in Croatia, the US (and other) stock markets were in free fall. The screening naked ladies adorn the Split stock exchange building. A sign of the times - now - and then.

The Croatian soccer team made the country and region proud. There are images celebrating its success all over Croatia. Like this one.

Just a plaque on the side of a waterfront building ... Translation: Sigmund Freud slept here. Or more precisely "Sigmund Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was staying in this house in September 1898."

I mentioned we traveled part of our journey in a small boat. During US Thanksgiving, the kitchen staff pulled out all the stops decorating dessert.