Podgora- Part 2

Later on Sunday afternoon Niksa took me to the park on the Biokovo mountain and to the summit of Biokovo. The drive was hard going for Niksa in a small car, without power steering and on a very narrow and steep road with many hairpin turns. The summit, Sveti Jure, is at approximately 1700m, so it was quite a drive. The views from Sveti Jure were amazing, especially as the air was very clear that day. In the evening I chatted to Ruzica, a cousin of my grandfather. Ana make a very nice meal of roast chicken and pasta, which she was concerned to discover was similar to the meal I had had for lunch at Tatjana and Vlado's. Of course I was not concerned at all. On Monday I joined Lada and Zoran for their daily visit to the beach with their children. I had lunch with Niksa and Ana, Niksa's children Mate and Nikolina, Nikolina's husband Marion and their children Lucija (3) and Patrick (a few months old). Mate's son Ivan (9) was there also. Lucija is lovely. Ivan can only be described as precocious- his English is already very good, even better than Vlado's. Lunch was very good and was courtesy of Marion. Mate and I in the yard of the "Papa house"-