Off to do a bit of food shopping after breakfast. I tried to count the steps up the hill, lost count. We had a simple but tasty lunch of home grown beans, hot sausages in a tomato base (sugo Cvita cooked the other day). Today we had crepes for dessert, simple & light with homemade apricot jam. After lunch we visited the cemetery to find my grandparents grave. There were lots of Papak graves spread out everywhere, but John found the small plot that included ...

We woke up early as the local stork was quite noisy this morning. They are a protected species & people are encouraged to leave their nests in place so they can return year after year during their mating and breeding season. After breakfast we walked up the hill for supplies and then I made a Carbonara pasta dish for lunch. Cvita was busy preparing tomatoes for this year's winter supply of sugo. In the meantime she made some yogurt using the fresh milk she...

Young Dragan is Cvita's son-in-law and he promised to take us to a spot on the Danube for a swim. Unfortunately it looked like the weather would break today so plans changed and we did a little bit of touring locally & picked plums for Cvita from his family's farm that sits on the edge of the Serbian Border on our side of the Danube. After returning to his home, we met many of his family members who live either side of his place. One in particular was intere...

We woke up at early after having another great night's sleep. Rođo, Cvita's youngest brother was here after breakfast. He is one of the local policemen. We asked him why there were so many police cars & vans outside the police station and he told us that they were pertinent as we are so close to the Serbian border. The border has police patrols every 2km to prevent immigrants moving into Croatia. Before lunch we dropped in to visit Mladen (cousin), Snježa...

We woke up at 9am after having a great night's sleep. We are staying with my cousin Cvita she is Mira's (from Zurich) older sister. Her husband Milorad is a gentle gem of a man. He is quite unlike many men in Croatia in the sense that he happily takes on household chores to help her out with the dishes, grandkids & cooking. Again we have a 3 generation home. Cvita's son Dragan, his wife Sandra and Their 2 children Iva (daughter) & Marino (son) all live t...