After a year of intermittent sinus issues and pounding headaches, Pat finally broke down. “I can’t take it. I’m calling a doctor.” We travel home for our routine medical care, so we never visited a doctor here. Luckily, I had… Read More ›
Expat in Central Europe
Kapitulska Ulica: Bratislava’s history as told by its oldest street
The communists were terrible landlords. In a relatively brief 40 years, they turned Kapitulska Ulica, “Church Street”, from a coronation pathway for the kings and queens of the Kingdom of Hungary into a ramshackle mess of crumbling buildings and cockeyed… Read More ›
Life in the Empire
When we announced our intention to move to Bratislava, the first question everyone asked was “why?” Why, at a phase of life when we might buy a beach house or mountain retreat, why during an age where we could slow… Read More ›
The World In Between 