Did you know the tie was invented…

…In Croatia? It’s called a “crovat” and is derived from “Croat”! Did you know that their official script is Latin? That their flower is the Iris? That they have 1,185 islands in the Adriatic Sea? That dalmatian dogs come from the Dalmatian coast?! That the name of their currency was named after a rodent? That it’s supposed to be…

Last night there was a sky that can really only be done justice by the great painters of the 15-16 century. And in fact it was absolutely that type of sky that is painted in cupolas in churches, light blue in the distance with wisps of golden clouds tracing lines across the horizon. But then…