Ssouth of Zadar, many abandonned villages

It may become a bit tedious, but we start the day again with sunbathing and swimming, after having breakfast. We must be able to prove that we really have had a holiday, mustn't we?

In the afternoon we are totally done with the sea and the beach and step into the terribly hot car. First we drive to the village Pirovac and we notice how people all seem to think here that tourism is the only easy way to make money. Everybody is setting up a bed & breakfast or a pub. They may be right.

From Pirovac we drive away from the coast towards the mountains and there we meet twice with a flock of sheep and their sheperds. There are not many signs of agriculture and most vegetation looks very young, so we get the impression that a lot has been burned down during the war.

Again, we pass through dozens of devastated and abandoned villages. The names of the villages are still there but not on our map. It is a very sad and depressing sight and we cannot imagine how helpless these people must have felt.

When we are back on the campsite we see that Joško's bar is empty, so we go straight to him and he has some time to sit and talk with us. He tells us something about his war experiences. For three years he has been hiding from the war, fortunately too young to serve in the military, but no ordinary youth it was. No school since he was 14 and all the time being witness of the heavy bombardments on Zadar. He is lucky he hasn't got any trauma's like many of his age who are addicted to drugs or alcohol.