Life In Croatia: Getting Ready To Start School

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I have been blogging for seven years now. I started my ‘dear diary’ series just before moving to Croatia back in 2012! In that time Chasing the Donkey has grown exponentially – we are at almost 13 million page views from 6.5 million unique readers in fact. Yowzers!

I’ve written loads about Croatia (and other places), like where to go, what to see, what you need to eat and of course my experiences about being a foreigner living in Croatia.

After 6 years of living in Croatia, our family is about to hit a huge milestone – and it brings me to a new topic to write about.

School. Big school. I now will have a first-grader.

It’s a moment I have been dreading and looking forward to in equal proportions for a long time.

My oldest son was just 9 months old when we moved from Sydney to Zadar and can you believe it? He turned seven last month, seven!

He has always been rather curious, his…