Whenever I sit to write another post Joni Mitchell and her Circle game song just starts playing in my head. We have been here – some of the pictures below will look familiar to careful

Two months since we moved down for season 2015! Lovely, sunny (yay!) two months. What happened at Pruga during that time? Food was prepared, including a new thing – sage flower cordial (beggining of the preparation above right). Very nice and already drank. Kinda like elderflower cordial

This is the said cat. I know I am not the first one to be fascinated by the transformation from a warm, cuddly, fuzzy gorgeousness into a ruthless killer.

The main reason why my last post is from July (geee!) is that I found myself thinking about writing and then concluding that I would only repeat what I wrote last year at about same time. So I was kinda waiting for some excitement to happen that I would be happy to report

I said to myself the other day “I will not talk about the weather” and then all my conversations start with “I said to myself that I will not talk about the

Let’s start with a tail. Or the tail. Mju Mju’s tail. We had some lovely, talented people visiting who took some beautiful photos that I will soon scatter around the

Winter has been very uneventful at Pruga, hence no posts for such a long time. There was not even the snow drama of last year. However, as spring sprung I spend days editing todo lists before our “transhumance” (word I just learned – “seasonal movement of people with their

As overcast is the norm here in Zagreb, plus some serious cold from yesterday morning, I decided it is time to finally write the last post of the season. It may look like a selection of fruit and vegetables photos – which it is of

Small digression from the usual Pruga topics. Autumn is, especially if you are trying to embrace country life, time for preserving food. I did quite a bit throughout the summer but there is this one thing, pretty important in the continental part of Croatia, that quite a few people make –

More days have gone by, the summer is still here although autumn can be felt in the air. And in shorter days and colder nights. Ah, the inevitability of

Yes, summer is definitely here and with it the life at Pruga as we planned and

I have survived the visit from an inspector in charge of deciding whether Pruga is officially ready for guests and if it meets the criteria for a star rating (I’ve asked for three

Spring is (finally and seriously) here and with it a flurry of activity at Pruga. The “missed at Easter” asparagus frittata was enjoyed, there are spring blossoms galore, and we are finishing things, finishing

Me and the rest of Europe it seems. We just came back from almost ten days in Lovrinići. While fun was had and work was done, I cannot escape mentioning the weather. It

After three months of waiting for a sunny weekend coinciding with us not being busy in Zagreb we have finally packed a vanload of stuff and, braving snowy mountains on our way, headed sunless towards

I was debating if I should post this picture or not – after all, where in it is the promise of eternal sunshine and never-ending summer that is

Finally. I am writing this from our flat in Zagreb – far, far away from Pruga and a lovely, long summer.

…is, well, physically exhausting. And, for me, much more often, much more rewarding than a day in the office. And I’ve been doing quite a bit of it for the last three

Of course there is. That’s how the light gets in. Aaahhh, lovely

Last week, we went to Venice for a day – with the lovely and talented P.

What happens in 20 days in the middle of not much in the height of summer? Well, not much. We have settled into a routine of sorts. Most importantly, we have that long awaited 10Mbit connection and Vanja is happily working away from his “office” here in Lovrinići. I say happily not

It was two weeks yesterday since we moved in. Huh. Pretty busy two weeks and I write this from bed after a set of guests including Vanja the husband (aka somebody-has-to-work) have left. All alone. Not scared at all. At.

We have actually moved! This Saturday (21 July). So much is happening and I am waay behind posting

Just three weeks ago it still looked like this. And now… the builders are moving out this Wednesday! That is – in two

“D-Day is a term often used in military parlance to denote the day on which a combat attack or operation is to be initiated.” says Wikipedia. Although obviously I have no desire to compare our project with the military or combat attacks or anything similar, we are getting a bit anxious.

No more scaffolding – whoo hoo! But this is least of the things to think about right now. We are only a couple of weeks from contractors leaving the site – hopefully finishing quite a few things left to do before we move in and finally start living this idea of a dream. Quite a few