All good things come to an end

Currently in the Zagreb Airport awaiting a flight to Frankfurt and eventually home, we can reflect on the past couple of days in Pecs, 2.5 train hours south of Budapest. This year the European Union Capital of Culture along with Istanbul, we didn't do anything very cultural!! Is scrabble cultural? No, perhaps not, but our arms recovered from dragging heavy suitcases up and down stairs, on and off trains, and along cobbled streets with a couple of games. Let's face it, we're not in our 20s any more!!!!

However, we did take a walk around the town and were interested in the Mosque that the Catholics commandeered in the 18th Century. What a mish-mash of religions! Another cosy apartment for us to explore from, and more delicious food to try......

Time flies, and we are now in Frankfurt, waiting, waiting........

Some of our moments to remember will be, in no particular order:

*Foal on menus in Slovenia
*Cath's maps with all our routes highlighted, and the Lonely Planets with post-it note bookmarks
*The queues for confession at the Cathedral in Zagreb in Easter week
*No lift in Rovinj and climbing 3 flights to find we were in a box with a view of a wall - we moved to a room with a harbour view the following morning
*The Bistro car on the train - we only ever found one
*Pen's insistence at being just in case early for transport - sometimes hours!
*Easter Sunday service in St Euphemia's in Rovinj
*Discovering that our 48 hour Budapest card included insurance covering the loss of the top half of the thigh - what the?
*Pen sure that she could smell volcano ash in Pannonhalma - the farmers were burning off
*Looking at a sepulchre so dark we couldn't see good King St Stephen's mummified hand - until Pen paid 200 forints
*Cath shoot a prawn tail across the table and onto the floor just ahead of a passing patron
*A full English brekky in Pecs being cereal, rolls, cheese, pickles, tomatoes and ham - and a cold boiled egg
*Walking through the Four Seasons in Budapest pretending we belonged, when we really just needed to use their loo...and tissues, and hand cream...
*Croatia Airlines serving the ham and lettuce roll before we had even pushed back from the gate and had the safety demonstration

All in all we have had a wonderful adventure over nearly 4 weeks and have visited the capital and a regional town in each of Croatia, Slovenia and Hungary. We are still laughing......