Author: Rick Johansen

It’s been a genuine regret that I have been more than a little tardy in trying to learn some Croatian words. I know ‘thank you’ and have forgotten everything else. Today, that regret is deeper than ever. Even...

It took us three quarters of our holiday to realise there is far more to Supetar on the little Croatian island of Brac (pronounced Bratch) than we realised.We are staying slightly east of the main harbour, the blissfully quiet,...

Several times, and many miles, removed from Britain’s national humiliation, I feel blessed that I am, until Thursday, on a lovely island off mainland Croatia. If it is not bad enough that Brexit has made Britain the...

One thing I am definitely not missing about the UK is television. It’s not just the fact that I am, thankfully, away during the early skirmishes between Boris Johnson and Jeremy C…er…Hunt as they wave handbags...

Here, I begin with a rhetorical question: is it just me who looks in a mirror and thinks, “Ugh”? The mirror in the barber shop is the worst one. I have to sit and look at myself for, I don’t know, half an hour....