René Seifert - Entrepreneur & Global Citizen

After a dense with lots of focused and fruitful work over the last days, I am readying myself again for departure my beautiful idyllic town of Rovinj in Croatia.

Coming to this place 30 years, the picture of the old town obviously hasn’t change as most of these house are 300 too 400 years old, but what I see with lot of delight that Rovinj has left the balkanized flair behind. Where I remember well the socialist and post-socialist “I don’t care-charme” of the 80s, a well established governance had taken ahold of communal life. You can really see that there is a mayor and an executive council actively caring for this place.

In that respect, for instance, the town managed to bring Colonia to Rovinj today, set up a tent and all for free entry.

Colonia is Croatia’s most famous, let’s say, dance pop band which joined 10 years ago and has been extremyl successful with around 10 albums ever since. The band comes a place called “Vinkovci” in the very eastern heartland of the country. from. The show was really nice to watch, especially the female singer Indira Vladić-Mujkić bears a lot of this warm-hearted authentic Croatian temperament with which she easily won the crowd over. What I really, really love about my motherland is this easy-going attitude on litterally everything. The main jokes Indira was cracking were consistently about love, but more often about sex without appearing the least vulgar. So the people who tend to be puzzled where I got my borderline humour from, can stop to wonder. Admittedly, I am not so sure whether I so consistently stay clear from the line of vulgarity :-)

Here a little take from the concert with limited quality from my photo-camera.

Tomorrow hitting the road to Trieste again, from there by plane to Munich. And I am so much looking forward to my holiday the day after, especially as I have never been to that country and this city: Cape Town in South Africa. Merry Christmas once again and all the best for 2007.