Compared to last year's color - Marsala, a dark, red-brown hue - the pale pink and baby blue shades are much softer and more peaceful.

And in the Methuselah case, I've stipulated, it ends up not being very much like me at all.

Even though the buildings of Zmaja od Bosne street - known as "Snipers' Alley" during the siege - passed in a blur, the remnants of the war were obvious.