Day 21: Sun Novi Sad

This was to be our last day with our guide Emil sadly & Catalan our driver. An emergency at Tripadeal has meant a change in our team. Emil took us on a walking your of Novi Sad. We saw a street with a long line of houses built in the 1770s. We walked along the Danube embankment and the Petrovaradin fortress. A charming pretty town full of architectural gems.
In the afternoon  a group of us went to a nearby town for a wine tasting. Sremski Karlovic . There was a town festival going on too. We saw a wedding with the noisy brass band plus a christening in the beautiful  cathedral.
The wine tasting had a heavy influence of honey in it. A professor created how to collect honey using panels for the first time. Usually as they collected the 🍯 honey all the bees would be killed.
Anne's chesty cough is worsening.

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