--- title: "Back from Croatia but, sadly, not for long" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/3/back-from-croatia-but-sadly-not-for-long.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/3/back-from-croatia-but-sadly-not-for-long.html" published: "2004-10-03T16:57:00" updated: "2004-10-03T16:57:00" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "I just got back from Croatia. Croatia is a pretty cool country – lovely beaches as long as the eye can see (no sand though – just rocks and shells) and amazing landscapes on the inside. Think Greece – only less annoying…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Back from Croatia but, sadly, not for long By Roy Osherove October 3, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published October 3, 2004; technical details may be outdated. I just got back from Croatia. Croatia is a pretty cool country – lovely beaches as long as the eye can see (no sand though – just rocks and shells) and amazing landscapes on the inside. Think Greece – only less annoying tourists (for now). Lovely. We rented a car and just drove from one end (Zagreb) to the other (Dobrovnik) stopping along the way wherever we wanted. I think my traveliung days will never be the same. This is the way to travel. You’re not locked down to a specific hotel and you can drive for as long as you want – there’s always some place to crash the night. We crashed some really interesting places along the way. One of them was a roadhouse that has a B&B on the 2nd floor. Its mostly for truckers that stop along in the middle of the night. I swear we felt like we were in some kind of movie – the real people – the hard earning, sleepless, all night driving truckers were pulling in – driking and laughing with each other in what sounds like Russian, and smoking so much you’d think there was a pot convention. And then there’s the beer. Tal and I were sitting there along side the people and I was trying to famke my way into a believable beer drinker  - which did not last long. Not to mention the look we got when we asked for an omlet for dinner – no ham, cheese or any kind of meat, only vegetables on it. Those were funny looks we got, I tell ya. Not a day went by when we didn’t say “wow!” at least 10 times during driving or walking somewhere. I loved every moment. There were so many places we didn’t have time to stop in that I think even a month would not be enough. Its just a land full of beauty. Anyway – I’d love to say “and now back to regular programming” but that’s not the case. I have military service duty coming up that should take about amonth of me being out of the house and work. It start in about a week. And that sucks. After that though – I really plan on getting back to my usual self and planting al sorts of half assed ideas into your head. Be warned. ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Oct 3, 2004 ### [No blogger list on weblogs.asp.net?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/3/no-blogger-list-on-weblogsaspnet.html) - Oct 3, 2004 ### [A new book: Network science, and what SOA has to do with it](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/10/3/a-new-book-network-science-and-what-soa-has-to-do-with-it.html) - Sep 23, 2004 ### [Out of Country - Croatia here we come!](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/23/out-of-country-croatia-here-we-come.html) - Sep 14, 2004 ### [Book library management system - know a good one?](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/9/14/book-library-management-system-know-a-good-one.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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