If you are looking for an example of the gorgeous absurdity of life in Croatia, let me take you back to December 2015 and a simple incident that took place almost without witnesses and ended up as the number one news story of the day, and was talked about for months.

It was also the day that my name was splashed across the main media outlets for the first time - in some parts hilarious, in some parts a sad reflection on one of the great fault lines in Croatian society. A country where even the innocuous act of putting up political decorations is politicised.