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 I picked up this book by Zvonimir Freivogel at the Croatian Maritime Museum in Split. He has written several books on Yugoslav and Austro-...

 My holiday reading was Ken Lussey's WW2 crime thriller Bloody Orkney . Crime fiction is not my usual genre, but this is set in Orkney ...

 Yesterday was the annual Carronade show put on by the Falkirk Wargames Club. The show is held in a school which allows two large halls and ...

 My last blog from my trip to Croatia covers the castle at Knin. This is a bit off the tourist route, situated inland near the Bosnian borde...

There are several historical sites in Split worth a visit. I started with the Archeological Museum. However, the upper floors were closed, a...

 We took a ferry from Split to Hvar yesterday, which takes a route through the islands that have been a battleground for British forces in t...