Zaostrog

We left Camp Marina after our trip to the Krka National park and moved another 100 miles down the coast to the small seaside town of Zaostrog, another site right on the seafront but we chose a pitch set back with a view across to the beautiful clear blue sea. If you look carefully at the above photo you can see our van directly in front of the bell tower of the monastery (we were woken every morning at 7.45am by the bells calling the monks to pray, thankfully the bells were silent after 8pm)
From this site we were able to cycle both ways along the coast on quiet roads and on our last day we went out for walk up into the hills behind the town, stopping for a picnic along the way. As we were walking along a quiet residential road we were talking about the mandarins on a tree ready for picking and a voice from behind the tree said "Would you like some?" The owner of the house was sitting on her veranda and spoke perfect English, she offered us as many mandarins as we would like including "one for the road!" What a lovely kind gesture! When we got back we were ready for a swim in the sea.
Croatia is certainly a beautiful country and we have been lucky with the weather in the last week,the tourist season here is ending so many of the seafront kiosks have closed already, it makes it pretty quiet but that suits us!

This is where we had our picnic

And who lives in a house like this? A hobbit maybe?

This tree is now missing some mandarins

A beautiful bay we encountered on our way home