The way back home

River Krk National Park - a nice stop

Visovac monastery, or the Island of the Gentle Giant.

 Saw some more countryside. Got stopped by the cops for not having parkers on. That's a fine, but the smiling cop let us go. 

Zadar.

The jetty out the front of Teta Beba.

On the boat, giving Tiho a lesson in arm wrestling.

Stopped for lunch at a weird ski resort with Croatian flags everywhere, but we're still in Bosnia.

Crossed the border and stayed at Knin. Knin has fame as the capital of Serbian Krajina in Croatia. It's army got crushed by Croatia, with the unofficial help of the US, and official help of NATO, and ethnically cleansed in the process. Knin is an important junction in the country, and has important rail hub, and a little citadel. I was interested to have a look, but got outvoted by all, so we headed down to River Krk National Park for a swim and a bushwalk, a better choice. We've got a book called the Gentle Giant, which the boys love. The monastery on the island, Visovac, looks just like in the book. So we took a boat over to take a look, which the boys liked.

The historical city of Vicenza.

We got a call from Tiho. They were staying in Zadar, so we drove up, and stayed with Teta Beba. She's got every kind of flavoured brandy there is, and we tasted pear, cherry, and walnut, (not together) nice! She kindly put us in one of her rooms there. You can walk to a cafe, a couple of little shops, and it's 2m to jump in the sea. The boys hair started to go blonde.

Vicenza was next. Another pedestrianised, bike riddled tourist town that I'd kill to live in. Damn all these Italian towns banning cars, so jealous.

Finally we stopped in Genoa for the day. It's got a Cahill Expressway right along the whole length of it's waterway, heaps of parking, and we both didn't want to stay. It just felt dodgy. Nice old buildings, crazy skinny alleyways everywhere, a lovely central grand piazza.

Nice to be home again.