We crossed to Croatia yesterday. Its a village in a pocket on the Serbia, Hungarian border area. Its a bit strange as we are just here for two days and the straight into Serbia. The tour ends back in Croatia so you can start to see how it gets a bit weird.
Its a really lovely village where our leader actually comes from. It was heavily involved in the Croatian Serbian war in 1991-98 as its a border city. Luckily today its beautiful and peaceful (25% unemployment in Croatia makes most of the country laid back and relaxed!). Most of the buildings still have shell and bullet marks, if you look close enough. Even after restoration, which is really expensive as all the old town is heritage listed and has to be renovated by professionals, some of the buildings have chosen to keep reminders of the 'homeland' war (not 'civil' war according to the Croats). A storm was rolling in yesterday on our orientation walk so the pictures are pretty good in some places.
The last picture is a hilarious sign on the water front area left from the Germans or the communists, I can remember. Anyway it shows how people are supposed to stroll on the walk in an order... You'll notice the single people are shoved together in the middle of the families and the riders lol.
A x
Its a really lovely village where our leader actually comes from. It was heavily involved in the Croatian Serbian war in 1991-98 as its a border city. Luckily today its beautiful and peaceful (25% unemployment in Croatia makes most of the country laid back and relaxed!). Most of the buildings still have shell and bullet marks, if you look close enough. Even after restoration, which is really expensive as all the old town is heritage listed and has to be renovated by professionals, some of the buildings have chosen to keep reminders of the 'homeland' war (not 'civil' war according to the Croats). A storm was rolling in yesterday on our orientation walk so the pictures are pretty good in some places.
The last picture is a hilarious sign on the water front area left from the Germans or the communists, I can remember. Anyway it shows how people are supposed to stroll on the walk in an order... You'll notice the single people are shoved together in the middle of the families and the riders lol.
A x
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