Day 36 – May 21 Saturday

A lazy start this morning, breakfast at 7.30am where we had a last catch up with a few remaining members of the tour group that didn’t leave on the bus to the airport at 6.30am.  Back to the room & a long chat on Skype with both of the kids, paying some bills & catching up on some email.  A repack of the bags (I put on a very bright pink blouse so that my relatives could pick me out of the crowd) & we checked out around midday & waited a bit for the hotel shuttle bus to the Rome airport.  Check-in was a breeze, it took a while to get through security & passports with the crowd, then out to our departure terminal by monorail train.  We found one of the few seats & waited around until our flight was called, on time & surprisingly we were in Belgrade 25 minutes before schedule at 5.15pm.  Passports & customs was very straightforward & we saw Klara (who knows us from talking on Skype) & Dejan, the children of Tereza’s Hungarian cousins, waving & smiling at us as we walked out of the customs gate.  It was so good to see them again after all this time.

Dejan drove us to Novi Sad where his parents, Kosta & Gizella live.  The drive took around an hour & a half.  Gizella is Tereza’s cousin & the welcome we received when we arrived at their apartment was very heart warming.  It was wonderful to see them again, it is fourteen years since we were here last time.  Gizella had a great Hungarian meal prepared for us, too much as is the Hungarian way, delicious as always.  Tereza & I had a great chat (me not as much) into the night catching up with old times.  Dejan left to go home to his wife & two children & we talked until past bed time.