Entries by Lee Barguss

Cherries in June

  There are a few weeks that tend to be around the end of May / start of June that mark the perfect time to start picking some of the fruits growing in the back garden. It usually starts with elderflower and cherries, later in the summer we start to see the apples and plums […]

14 Essential Software Tools For Your Business

  Despite being established for a few years now, Version 22 is still a small business. It’s an aspect of the company that we really enjoy, and are not intent on changing any time soon. It means that we can keep things more personal for our customers and we can invest time on working on […]

Riječki karneval

Rijeka Carnival   The main event of the Rijeka Carnival is the march through the city centre on the Sunday before Ash Wednesday. Numerous locals from the region attend to parade as groups dressed up in different themes, and tens of thousands spectate the event through the day. It is known as the biggest carnival […]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Exploring the Royal Botanic Gardens   Living in a different country to where I’m from requires a kind of “duty” every now and then, to make a quick trip back to the UK and make sure that everyone remembers what I look like. I’ve been living in Croatia full time for just over a year […]

Zagreb Christmas Market

Zagrebačka katedrala (Cathedral of Zagreb)  True to the promise made in my previous post of exchanging the weekend work catch-up for trips to new places, we went ahead with driving up to Zagreb for a slow-paced, yet pleasing day trip. It’s been a while since we headed into the city, so it was pretty satisfying […]

Choppy Water and a Sandy Beach

Photo by Nives Batistić   The end of 2017 marked the beginning of my annual file cleanup – which includes backing up files to hard drives, deleting old/useless content, and sorting useful content into its new home. Without the distractions of my day job’s unforgiving requests and the usual tedious daily chores that are crammed […]