Wednesday – 18 May, 2016 Villany to Pag Island

Yes, today we are to leave Hungary after a great 8 days there. We will be back at the end of our cruise in August next year. We check out of our hotel, a snap before we go.

There is a lot of driving today, about 8.5 hours with a couple of stops. We load up and take off. When we reach the Border of Croatia, a sullen faced young customs officer causes us substantial delays, looking around and then taking our passports to a private room for over 20 minutes. She then hands them to a senior officer who takes them into another private room for a period. All up, over 30 minutes to go from one EU country to another. Good thing no one else wanted to cross at the same time.

After a toilet stop and than after more driving we stop for a lunch break at a roadhouse. This is the highlight meal of the trip – NOT. I don’t want to harp too much on it but gee whiz.

One of the pieces of veal was 100% gristle. One more photo:

One of the ladies at the shop was making strudel.

Not as bad as the veal but still not very good. We start off again and complete the long, long drive. Our destination is Pag Island. Our Hotel is kind of in the middle of nowhere but very good.

We are then given a tour of the winery in the basement below.

We are given a taste of a couple of the wines.

Notice the two barrels at the front. I find a very large pipette, Hugh calls a “cheat”, and Boris and then Hugh try extracts from the barrel, the first white which Boris especially likes. We are then shown to our dinner table which is outside on the patio. Perhaps a bit cold for Julie but it was nice. The food is from a menu from Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations”.

That was Lamb Tripe. It stunk, I could not face it. Others who did considered it truly revolting. Anthony, what were you thinking.