Friday 11 October.

 Quiet morning as our tour is not until 3.15 pm. It is clear but a cool 13 degrees when we wake up back in Croatia. We have a late breakfast and decide to have a look at the town - Osijek. It is the fourth largest city in Croatia and the area we walk to is busy with eateries and people everywhere. Some of the buildings still have bullet holes in from the war with Serbia. We spend an hour there and head back. I want to try and upload some photos. Partially successful, but it is a slow process. Sometimes I can upload two but then I have to revert to one at a time, and I never know whether it is going to work until I review the post! 

We head off at 3 pm and it is a pleasant 25 degrees. Our first stop is the nature park for a boat trip around the canal and marshland where there is supposed to be abundant wildlife and birds. We saw cormorants, a couple of ducks and a heron or two! We then had time to walk on a boardwalk through the reeds! What a totally underwhelming event.

After all that excitement we head off to our home dinner, which was fantastic. We had a great time with Nada our host.

After dinner and back on board the opal, the tour director has arranged a special event. His cousin belongs to a three piece traditional Croatian group and one plays a Tamburica, looks like a miniature mandolin. The other two play a guitar and a piano accordion. We sat there stunned as did the rest of the audience. The songs seemed to roll into one, the voices were terrible and the melody hardly changed. At least they seemed to enjoy themselves, no one else did. Maybe the words were funny, nothing else was. It was a relief to go to bed!