SATURDAY Up at the ungodly hour of 5:15 a.m. to fly to Belgrade. Over here you fly when the various national airlines want to fly and sometimes it's only a couple of planes a week so making connections is quite tricky. We changed planes in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia, and got on a Yugo airlines plane for Dubrovnik on the coast. The airport is some distance from the city so there is a long ride along the coast till suddenly you come out to the edge and looking down there is the city. It is very old, still has its unconquered sea fortress and city walls with the old city inside it. It is quite a fabulous view from the cliff tops down to the city on a point of land jutting into the Adriatic and the water a most beautiful blue.

SUNDAY Today an all day drive to Sveti Stevn (sweaty Steven I dubbed it because of the heat). An interesting island village converted to an exclusive hotel. Not really worth the long drive in itself but the drive was interesting as it showed off some of the countryside of Monte- negro, one of the provinces of Yugoslavia with its fortified towns, deep fjord-like inlets as much as 30 miles in from the Adriatic. Yugoslavia is much more west-oriented than the other Balkan states. Its business operates on 3 levels, state-owned such as our hotel, cooperative such as the workers in a factory who own and govern it, and private such as small farms and artizans. As in Poland one can employ up to five people outside the family and one can build and own his own house. The place abounds with British, American and German tourists who come for the rest, the sun, the beaches and the beautiful blue water. People seem very contended and happy.

MONDAY, AUGUST 30 Did a tour of the old city walls around Dubronik. It was very warm in the Adriatic sun. Fortunately I had found my favorite fruit - black figs in the marketplace and carried some along with me. Back to the hotel for an hour's nap and recovery and then to the hotel beauty shop for a hair-do. Rather difficult to get across your ideas of a hair style when you don't talk the language. Native folk dancing demonstration that evening in the castle part of the fortifications. Very colorful, lively and interesting.

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TUESDAY Had to get up at 4:15 a.m., bags out 5 a.m. and arrive at airport at 6:30 a.m. for flight to Budapest. Arrived at hotel and had to wait about an hour for rooms but when I got one I konked out for about an hour to recover from the early morning. Then by taxi over to the old Hapsburg Castle in Buda across the Danube. It is very ancient the sub-sub basement of it being of Roman ruins. It was pretty com-

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