“I was an outsider before I was a traveler; I was a traveler before I was a writer; I think one led to the other.”
Grado, Italy: In the Footsteps of Biagio Marin
The Northern Adriatic: A part of the world drenched in military history, political skirmishes and ethnic composites leftover from fallen empires. Germanic, Slav and Italian influence fused into a breathless aura of ghosts. Expired novelists, poets and exiled artists seemed to stalk the landscape. I was in the right place.