Day 20. Heading east again

The route in Croatia is mostly on shared roads. It's Sunday morning so it's not busy yet. Even at 8.30am the cafés are all busy though ,as the locals have their morning coffee ,or beer. Many of the houses have mountains of firewood already piled up for the coming winter.

I was going to say he's got everything but the kitchen sink, but it's there !

  We picked up the trail again on this bike track into Osijec. Goodness knows where it went

Osijec is a nice old town on the river Drava ,still with the old tram systems

The bread shops don't have the temptations of the French or Germans though. 

And supermarkets take a bit of finding

When the 1991 war hit this area and Serb tanks drove in to Osijec , one local parked his little car in their path as an act of defiance. The tank just drove over him and crushed it, so when the war finished this memorial was put on the very spot. Only this time the little car wins !

As we rode east to tonight's stop at Vukovar the damn road was blocked off and we got lost. You techno wizards out there will be glad to hear that I've got my GPS working and it was able to find us another route .. I don't think we'll ask it's help again. Took us through a farmers maize field . The look on his face as we drove past him on his harvester was worth the effort !!

And eventually back onto the closed road. Still under reconstruction. 

 Anyway, we eventually found the right road and got into Vukovar about 3.

This town still shows all the signs of the war and the underlying tension just showed itself this week when the 2 sides couldn't agree on how to commemorate the start of WW1

We rode in to town past the cruise ships and found a reasonable pension called Zara's.