Croatian Home Lunch

If you're trying to decide on tour options, always choose the home hosted lunch!!

It was a joy to visit this tiny village outside of Osijek and hear real stories of how the war effected people. I do apologize that I didn't catch her name, we had a translator.

Her family built and owned this house. They were kicked out but were fortunate that a Serbian couple was given the house so it was preserved when many others weren't. They moved back in after the war.

The food was simple but tasty, the conversation was lively with our fellow Uniworld guests, and we got to sample her niece's homemade wine (it...wasn't the best, haha).

The house is lovely, with her property stretching down to the Danube in the distance, with Serbia on the other side. Croatians feel strongly that Serbia was an occupying force, and they were freedom fighters revolting against Serbia's unfair domination of Yugoslavia. Countries had been promised the freedom to leave the confederation as wanted.

Tito was and still is wildly popular in both countries. Our guide mentioned that her father had a large painting of him in their house, and when she inherited it he insisted she keep it up. So she and her husband often joke about sitting down to breakfast with Tito. Had he not died before running out of other people's money, the story might be different ;).Read more