Two weekends ago we joined a group of nine other expats (from Canada, Mexico, France, Russia, South Africa, United States, and Croatia) and headed out of Split for a horseback riding excursion. We drove 45 minutes to what felt like the middle of nowhere in the hills behind Split to a horse farm with over 70 horses. Ivica, the owner, and several other farm hands were there to greet us. [...]

Family and friends regularly ask me what it's like to work here in Croatia, and I usually just say, "It's different." I often find myself lacking the right words to explain how it is different, thinking, "You just have to live in this crazy place to understand." Sometimes I tell the story about how I was flipping through photos of a client's vehicle fleet that I was designing graphics for and I noticed one truck [...]