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Rather than waste paper printing these paragraphs I liked about the Dalmatian coast of Croatia, and then losing them forever in my vast piles of articles and other papers, I thought it would be nice to put them here where I can enjoy them. The article is called "Where Poseidon Sets a Bountiful Table," in the New York Times, by R.W. Apple, Jr., dated September 15th.
"Lured by the unpolluted, too-blue-to-be-true waters, the coruscating light and the scent of lemon trees and cypresses, celebrities... have discovered the island of Hvar, which is carpeted with wild lavender; the island of Korcula, a miniature Venice where Marco Polo may or may not have been born, and of course this ancient, golden city, of which George Bernard Shaw once said, "Those who seek paradise on earth should come to Dubrovnik."
"The London newspapers have taken to describing the Dalmatian coast as "the new Côte d'Azur" and Dubrovnik as "the new St.-Tropez." To an American eye it looks much more like Maine — with rather more hours of sunshine, of course, and a lot more Romanesque and Gothic and Renaissance architecture, but precisely the same sort of pine-clad mountains and islands."
Wow.
"Lured by the unpolluted, too-blue-to-be-true waters, the coruscating light and the scent of lemon trees and cypresses, celebrities... have discovered the island of Hvar, which is carpeted with wild lavender; the island of Korcula, a miniature Venice where Marco Polo may or may not have been born, and of course this ancient, golden city, of which George Bernard Shaw once said, "Those who seek paradise on earth should come to Dubrovnik."
"The London newspapers have taken to describing the Dalmatian coast as "the new Côte d'Azur" and Dubrovnik as "the new St.-Tropez." To an American eye it looks much more like Maine — with rather more hours of sunshine, of course, and a lot more Romanesque and Gothic and Renaissance architecture, but precisely the same sort of pine-clad mountains and islands."
Wow.