Oh those Communists......! Adventures of once upon a time The People’s Republic of Yugoslavia – Opatiya and  Riyeka. Image via Wikipedia The first time we went to this  (still) charming part of Europe ,  was completely by accident. We were living in West Berlin  at the time, and had been  there for a couple of years  (see earlier articles) and like  most of “ West Berliners ” we  loved the place, but needed  the occasional trip out of the  closely guarded confines of  the Western part of the city, and having to deal daily  with the Eastern countries way of living, we had lost a  great deal of our natural suspicion for the  Communist countries . An unexpected period of holiday from work left us with  the choice of going somewhere, or staying in West  Berlin, again. As chance would have it, my wife got hold of a brochure  from one of the West Berlin holiday c...