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DUBROVNIK, CROATIA, is once again filled with “ice cream–licking, pasta-slurping tourists,” as described in contributing writer Bill Fink’s lead Travel Bag story. His story focuses on a poignant War Photo Museum. The beautiful, walled city of Dubrovnik lies against the Adriatic Sea. It has been attacked by land and by sea several times.
I was glad to hear all is well again. In the mid-1990s, I visited the “Pearl of the Adriatic,” about a year after the Croatian Army had liberated it from its Serbo-Montenegrin aggressors. At the time, you could still find hotels with blacked-out sides, and sidewalks that had been pockmarked by artillery fire. It was discomforting when a guide pointed out the particular hotel lobby we were entering “was where one of the first war journalists suffered a fatality.”
Kudos to the notion a War Photo Museum now exists where only war once did. Fink writes that several other conflicts are depicted in photos. Here’s to the hope they, too, are solved in favor of museums and other peaceful alternatives.
REGULAR READERS should be getting used to the onetwo punch of contributing writers Judith Morgan and Laura Byrd. Both these photojournalists are aiming their prose and pointing their cameras for us at destinations around the world.
This month, Morgan returns to Chile and writes about a journey that involves four buses, three lake steamers and some colorful, expressive travel writing—a piece we’re proud to have grace our pages.
Byrd’s Road Trip column takes us to Cape Town, South Africa. We get to go along with her as she becomes a passenger in a 30-year-old motorcycle sidecar. The piece is as vicarious as Byrd is intrepid.
Beside the travelogues by our ladies at large, read about the best snacks in South America, how to quickly find your bags at the airport carousel and what to wear for maximum comfort and convenience on your next flight.
Enjoy the trip.
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