I'm back!

I've just returned from a lovely two-week vacation to Croatia with side trips to Montenegro,
Slovenia and Venice. It was a fine trip, led by Collette Tours.  We had an excellent guide, a skilled, comfortable bus driver, really good local guides, (even Miss Croatia of 1998), good accommodations, good food (that I didn't have to cook). Altogether, an excellent adventure.
Over the next several days I plan to hit the highlights., perhaps with pictures as I get them sorted out
Tonight just a few good words about Collette.  After an overnight flight from the US, and a transfer in Amsterdam, we landed at Marco Polo Airport in Venice and were led to our bus, met our Italian driver, Marco, and were driven around the northern edge of the Adriatic Sea to our first stop, Opatiji, Croatia.
The first evening we met our fellow travelers - 43 of us - from Canada, the US and Great Britain.  Several couples and several single women, ages ranging from 50-80 (I'm guessing here). Not an eligible man in the bunch (not that I'm looking but just saying).
Our guide, Steve, seemed and proved to be very well organized and extremely patient, even with two rather demanding travelers.  They were a mother/daughter couple who made their first impression on the group by showing up to the bus a little late the first morning, then about 20 minutes into the drive, the mom loudly announced to the entire bus that she couldn't find her glasses, must have left them at the hotel and seemed to be waiting for Marco to turn the bus around. Steve calmly went back to her seat, looked around, found her glasses on the floor. He also, I thought with great restraint, went on to explain that it was important to everyone that we leave promptly in the mornings and once we leave a place we won't go back.
That did seem to improve their promptness - I think he was secretly hoping they could be left behind.