I was recently sent a copy of the latest (15th) edition of the book Europe by Rail – The Definitive Guide, by its Berlin-based authors Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries (who are also the lovely people behind hidden europe magazine, to which I have been a regular contributor since 2007). It’s a wonderful book – …
In a shameless piece of self-promotion, I can announce that I won two awards from the OWPG (Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild) last weekend, at an Awards dinner and AGM held on Jersey, in the Channel Islands. My feature on the 16th century Adriatic pirates, the Uskoks, and their descendents in Croatia’s Žumberak region (published …
A few shots from Croatia last week. I was back in the village of Cigoc in Lonjsko polje, again – minus the floods on this occasion – to photograph some of the storks which nest there at this time of year…. …and also in Senj and Zumberak, while working on a feature on the Uskoks …
Posavina. Croatia’s Lonjsko polje and Turopolje Rudolf Abraham is the perfect guide to the wetlands of north-east Croatia, as we join him on a tour of the Lonjsko polje region with its distinctive wooden architecture and storks’ nests. The villages of Lonjsko polje — Cigoc, Krapje, Lonja and others — stretch along the left bank …
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Just before my most recent visit to Lonjsko polje, Croatia’s greatest wetland landscape, in early October 2010 (for a Hidden Europe article), the area around Zagreb and Sisak and along the river Sava had recently been subjected to some of the worst floods in more than a quarter of a century. The floodplains of Lonjsko …