Travel with Indigo

MONACO

Thanks to its reputation as a playground of jet setters, I was fully prepared not to like this city country, but I did. From the sea, it is not a handsome place. Its concrete box high-rise condos and clumsy looking hotels and public buildings, many dated from the 70s and 80s, give it the […]

With a population of less than 700,000 and a land area slightly smaller than Connecticut, this is the least consequential of the Balkans countries, yet it is also undoubtedly the most scenic, a miniature impecunious version of Austria. “Wild Beauty” is the national tourism slogan, and that it surely has. […]

Unless you studied a map of this small but eventful country, up close and in large scale, you would not know that it has a coastline, but it does. Just 15 miles long, it cuts a small slice out of Croatia’s southern Dalmatian coast. The border crossing there is perfunctory, though, so for the tourist […]

Here is reputed to be the culinary center of Croatia. Its wines, while surely adequate, are not up to the standards of the southern regions around Hvar and Dubrovnik, but its cuisine is superb. While I was there, the truffle season was at its peak. Sniffed out by trained dogs, these tasty fungi, […]

Much of my time in Croatia, I spent in and around the city of Split with visits to nearby islands, including Hvar, said to be the epicenter of Dalmatian tourism, and Brac. Croatia’s second largest city is a remarkable town for the reason that the Roman emperor Diocletian chose to build his retirement home there, now a UNESCO World Heritage site. […]