Today we knew we had a big day ahead of us. A 4.5 hour drive from Opatija to Trogir, via Rijeka and then Plitvice Lakes. We took off early and it was only a 10 minute drive to Rijeka, where Lid's family all came from before the war. We had the address of Nonnas house and the GPS took us straight to it. We didn't know exactly which house, but Laila's cousin told us number 3, so we took a few photos of number 3, the houses around it and the park across the road. ...

We were sad to leave Venice. I think it is our favourite city in the world, for both of us. It was a good thing that we left though because we always spend so much there that if we stayed any longer we would have left broke. Anyway, lots more to get excited about! We left Venice early because we heard that it can take a long time to cross the border into Croatia and we had been told by our AirBNB hosts in Opatija that there was a special event on there today and...