After our week of roaming, it was nice to be welcomed back at Drivenik by Ouma and Aunt Milica. During our absence Dale's Mom,Dad, and youngest brother Ryan had finished their holiday and returned to New Zealand, while Gareth and his mates had met up with another group of friends for a week long cruise / party along the Dalmatian coast. Beks, Tim, Dale and I moved into the upstairs bedrooms at the Drivenik house. Zlatko had left a 'to do' list for us, so whi...

Our journey from Verona to Dale's family home in Croatia required two trains, a bus, and a hire car and took the better part of a day. At 7:30am our taxi driver was ready and waiting to take us to the train station as requested. What we had not expected was that he would arrive early and already have the meter running (up to 5 euros by the time we got in the cab)! Not wanting to risk losing our taxi driver and missing the train, Dale did no more than grumble ab...