Where did sports or a shared live event take you this year? I’d love to hear about it. Somewhere over the past several weeks, I became a data point. I flew to Toronto twice — once for Croatia’s group-stage match against Panama, and again for the Round of 32 against Portugal. I drove from New […]
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Toronto, twice in one week. If you’d told me at the start of June that I’d be back at the same stadium for a World Cup knockout match, I’m not sure I would have believed it — but there I was. Croatia and Portugal had never met at a World Cup. Not once, not across […]
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There are trips you plan for months, and there are trips you book because you simply have to be there. This was the second kind. Croatia was playing Panama in Toronto, and for a Croatian-American who has spent a lifetime watching this team from a couch an ocean away, I wasn’t going to miss it. […]
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There is a version of travel that looks great on paper and feels hollow in practice. The itinerary is packed. The landmarks are visited. The photos exist. And yet somewhere between the third museum and the fourth guided tour, something gets lost — the actual feeling of being somewhere new. We have a word for […]
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Vis Island has been named one of Croatia’s top destinations for 2026 — and if you’ve been paying attention to the Dalmatian coast for any length of time, that news lands somewhere between vindication and mild alarm. Intrepid Travel placed Vis on their Hot List for 2026, positioning it explicitly as the answer to the […]
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