Hi all!

It’s been hard to get an internet connection, so I’ll be posting a couple posts to catch up.

Spent my first week with my cousins Maja and Jelena and Uncle Ilija and Aunt Ruzica in Barajevo and Sremcica. Mornings started out with a run followed by a yummy breakfast and lots of story telling followed by laughter. Good for the digestion I’m told

I had a wonderful time visiting my old hood in Arandjelovac.  Arandjelovac is very very beautiful with many mountains and lots of greenery. I spent time with my great and wonderful girlfriends from school, Marijana, Jelena, Ana and one more Jelena (“Djuskale smo”) Stayed up till the wee hours talking and catching up, followed by a day being a tourist in my old town. Love you girls…it was like I was 10 years old again! Drugarice moje, obozavam vas!! Enjoy the pics!

Hi everyone

I have been neglecting my blog for the past year but I’m ready to start sharing again! So what better way than to start it off with where I left off. I am en route to see my relatives in Serbia and Croatia. So I need to get to some shut eye…

In the meantime here are a few pics of beautiful Vancouver Island from my flight with Harbour Air. What a gorgeous day and I highly recommend (if you feel like splurging) taking a float plane to Vancouver. Sure it’s more costly than the ferry, but your travel is also 30 minutes, can’t beat that!

My lovely friend Amanda came to see me at the Fairmont and joined me for a glass of bubbly, which I followed up with a trip to the spa! Yes, I am getting pampered!

Ok…it’s late and 5 am will creep up quick.

Nighty night!

So it’s been a week since my return home from my European adventure. It takes a bit to get settled in at home, but I’m getting there. I got back into my squash game this week, had 2 lessons and crickey…couldn’t walk for 2 days. SQUASH BUM!

Victoria has had an amazing September so far. Over 25 degrees, looks like summer arrived, late, but its here. Jeremy and I went fishing last weekend and I caught my first halibut, just shy of 60 pounds! Mmm, love halibut.

I’m off to do some gardening…..for now here is pictures of our lovely Labour Day weekend.

Cao for now!

I am a little late posting this, but to be totally honest I started a draft and just couldn’t bring myself to post it.

I spent my last two days with my Uncle Ilija and cousins Maja, Jelena, Bojan and family. Maja made a delicious dinner one of the evenings and on the last evening we went out to a local restaurant and dropped in at Zornica Kuca for a coffee and dessert – a fantastic spot.

I had an amazing amazing time, London, Berlin and of course my time in my homeland. I am looking forward to my next visit!

Za moju familiju, mnogo mnogo vam hvala za sve. Ovo mi je bio najlepsi odmor i puno mi nedostajete. Veruj te mi, da cemo se videti sto pre. Puno pusa i ljubavi, vasa Dragana. 

Well my vacation is coming to an end. I am packing tonight and leaving Sombor (I already cried once today) and tomorrow my cousin Milan is taking me to our other cousins house in Sremcica, near Belgrade, where I will be for the next two evenings prior my flight home out of Belgrade on Thursday.

Last few evenings have been fun filled with my cousins and friends. Went to see a friend win 3rd place for a Rakia (alcohol, distillation of fermented fruit) competition and with that got to listen to live music – very very cool, this was followed by an outdoor pool party, some 2000+ people! Another evening we got invited to a friends home in a nearby village called Stapar where the lovely Olja made a delicious meal in celebration of her towns Slava, a Serbian Orthodox tradition in which every family has its own Patron Saint. This feast/celebration is something the whole town celebrates. Thanks for the lovely food Olja!

Lastly here is my family and a few pictures of us around the table enjoying each others company and food.

Cao for now!

This week has been a scorcher (over 40 degrees!) and we’ve been spending our days by the pool…it’s rough I know.

This is a quick and short post as it’s very late here…so I’m off to bed. Below a few pics of us 4 (Milan, Zeljko, Stefan and myself) enjoying the rays.

Laku noc!

Ok it was over 40 degrees today!!! woo wee! HOT! I spent the day at an outdoor pool tanning my butt off and I loved every minute of it. At 10pm it was 27 degrees!

So my days here have been really hard, sleep, eat, tan, swim, sleep, eat, tan, swim…you get the idea right? I love it here, it’s a simple life but a happy one. A piece of me will forever be here and it will be hard for me to say good-bye next week. However, I promise I won’t wait another 5 years to come back and have a visit.

While I have been enjoying my food I have been running with my cousin Zeljko almost every day mainly late evenings, but tomorrow we are getting up early to avoid the heat wave.

Here are a few pictures of our nephews and 1 niece. They are very adorable. Also a trip to the daily market where Aunt Ljuba, Stefan (my cousin Milan’s son) went for ice-cream and an espresso for me. Few pics of the home where I’m staying at. House is split between 2 aunts and uncles, I’m sleeping up top, second window from the left. Oh and I cannot have a post without mentioning food. We went to my cousins friends place who made this delicious fish stew called Riblji Paprikas – very popular here. However, my favourite food of all time which I cannot get enough of is BUREK! It’s just this yummy delicious pastry with this cheese that is almost a tad sour…it’s very crunchy and you drink it with this runny yogurt. Mmmm!

I’m off to bed, will  post pictures of the pool next!