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...

part 1- The Prisoner in Cell Number-part 1.doc part 1- The Prisoner in Cell Number-part 1.doc                                     The Prisoner in Cell Number………                               ( for www.marquisdugalipot.blogspot.com ) I tapped, as usual, nervously in my crease block, and awaited the next delivery. When it came, it was such a loose ball, that I was pleased to dispatch it high and long to the boundary, forcing the Umpire to lift both hands, and signal yet another six runs. The surrounding fielders threw looks which would have killed, but I didn’t look, I was too busy getting somebody in Uniform from the spectators block, the higher ranked the better, to go and ask – “Can we have our balls back?” Image via Wikipedia This was Spandau, West Berlin ......... Simply ...