7/7 Sunday
A quiet day for our last swim in Omiš. We have a nice time cooling off at the
beach. When we get home, our host invites us to join then for some coffee and ice
cream and to go over the details for getting back to Split.
We enjoy some
conversation with our host and Lea and Mom for an hour or so. They’re all
interested in things in the U.S., how people live, how much things cost. We
enjoy hearing about life in Croatia. Lea tells us that she doesn’t drive,
because getting a license is so expensive. You need to pay for three months’ of
driving lessons, then after a series of tests for each stage, you pay about
$500 to take the final driving test, which you will probably fail so you can
pay $500 to take it again. So a simple driver’s license can cost as much as
$2000, USD!
When we leave, they
say how much they enjoy having us at their home. They’ve gotten used to
thinking “Oh, Bob and Patricia are upstairs!” How they’ll miss us when we’re
gone. It’s so nice to be treated like family.
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