A quieter week this week with us spending more time visiting relatives and going to Sibenik. Caleb became unwell with the same virus Kayla had and visited the doctors and was placed on a course of antibiotics. But as this is written it can be said we are nearly all well!
Buttons in Sibenik
On Monday we went to Sibenik again in the search of shoes for walking and keeping away from the stairs as it was enough last time and we didn’t want to subject the kids to the many stairs again. We enjoyed a hamburger (so not Croatian) and icecream whilst wandering through the beautiful streets that have been cleaned up a lot according to Fran since the refinery closed in recent years. A lady on the bus there told us it was blown up with dynamite! Fran also managed to get her hair cut and she said it made her feel a whole lot better. She did try and find a hair dresser in Tribunj however the hair cuts on the hair dressers worried her so she thought she would wait until the big city….well, bigger than Tribunj.
Kids in Sibenik
Visiting relatives was the order of the week with us visiting Fran’s cousin Nada in Vodice (she owns apartments and only works 5 months of the year) and she lives next door to her mother Aunty Stoya (Stana’s sister) and her brother. We enjoyed cake and coffee and good conversation.
Petar, Carlos, Stoya and Nada
We then went to Fran’s Aunty Kate’s place up the road and we saw Fran’s cousin Anita and Fran’s cousin Sanja’s daughter Martina (15)….very confusing for us non Croatians. We enjoyed conversation and wine and we must state here that the kids have been amazing. This time has really been Fran speaking Croatian for up to 2 hours straight and the apartments are very small with very little room for the kids to play. The odd game of Uno can pass the time but they have done really well as there are not many kids there age around when we have been visiting. We then walked all the way back to Tribunj along the coast.
Aunty Kate, Fran and Kayla
The following day we went to visit Fran’s cousin Marijana and brother Sime , children and lovely very frail mother. Again more food and wine was had (mostly by Stephen) and Fran once again spoke for up to 2 hours. This time there was room for the kids to play however they were getting a little tired of the visiting at this stage.
Marijana, Matija, Sime
We then went to Vodice to make one last visit on the to do list and it was to meet up with Fran’s cousin Sanja and she lives close to the ocean in Vodice and a beach that is more pebbles than rock.
Kayla wasn’t keen to go in but after reassurances that there is nothing dangerous in the water she went out deeper than advised and of course stepped on the first sea urchin in the area. This resulted in Fran and Sanja (an exnurse) trying to get out the spines (2 tiny spines) from her foot. Whilst screaming like a banshee, one was removed and the other a cream was added so Fran could remove it the following day…which she did and Kayla once again screamed like a banshee and declared never to swim again in the ocean without shoes.
Pebble beach pre-urchin
So we are now booked for a busy few weeks. Next week we have the Donkey races on Monday, not sure why a Monday, then we are off to cruise around the islands of Konate. We have also booked Dubrovnik for the following week then we plan to go to Zagreb and Venice the week after that. We have managed to secure some apartments in Dubrovnik and Zagreb and hope to do the same for Venice, that’s if the travel agent in Vodice can get on the internet! If not, we will be doing it from the tepid hotspot in Tribunj! Dovedenja!
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