Posts Tagged ‘ Croatia ’

I go to Osijek in Croatia once a year to teach on a postgraduate programme. It’s a good gig that’s made even better by the hospitality and the places - generally travelling out and back via Zagreb, and Osijek itself has the feeling of a small university city with some great weather. Normally when I’m...
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I had to teach on a Saturday morning. The students had made an effort to come in, even though the weather was perfect. And I’d made the effort, even though I’d found out that Osijek’s critical mass ride was taking part. That’s dedication, even though I felt like this: So when one of the students...
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Last weekend was my third visit to Osijek in the far East of Croatia. It’s a town of around 100,000 on the banks of the river Drava - one of the Danube’s tributaries, and this was my first visit during the summer. During that time the city’s economy hasn’t done fabulously well (where has?), but it’s still...
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For the last few days I’ve been in Croatia, teaching at the university in Osijek. I have been exceptionally well looked after by my hosts, one of whom lent me his bike so I could have a ride around the city on Friday morning before lectures. What you have here is basically a 15...
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