Vukovar and Osijek
For once, there isn’t a peep out of the Oldies. They are standing stock still, open mouthed, staring in stunned silence. It feels like we are in a war zone and, in fact, it was exactly that, back in the early 1990s. A huge number of buildings still bear the scars of the bullets, shells and grenades that completely devastated this town. We are in Vukovar in Slavonia, eastern Croatia, a town that suffered the bulk of this enormous damage…