Getting caught up.

Well, I've been here just about 2 weeks, so its going to take me a few posts to get caught up to date.

I spent the first few days here at the Hotel Central in Zagreb. Its the same place I stayed at when I was here doing my reconnaissance of Libraries and Archives over the summer. It strikes me as very "Yugoslav" both in style and practice. The funny thing is, my friend Fedja stayed there a year ago and had the same impression. Interestingly enough, I liked it and he found it depressing. Both reactions are understandable (for reasons that I wont go into here) but it is an interesting observation on the power of memory, and that the same "place" can have the same identity in people's minds, and evoke such opposite emotional responses.