Blogs from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Europe - page 28

... make sure you leave your usual tastebuds at home ... Ampak najprej lepo po vrsti. Torej! Tokrat odkrivamo Balkan v svoji najbolj pristni, e kar malo orientalski izvedbi. Pot naju je vodila mimo hrvaških naftnih polj (?!) do mejnega prehoda Gradiška (ki je nekoč bil Bosanska Gradiška, a so prvi del besedne zveze lepo prelepili in izbrisali), mimo naju so švigali avtomobili tudi z LJ, MB in CE registracijo - ovitek slovenski, vsebina izključno bosanska. In evo nas v Bosni! Za začetek so naju pozdravili kineski shop, pravoslavna in katoliška cerkev ter imena mest v cirilici. Welcome to Bosna - Serbian edition. To, da smo še daleč od pristne muslimanske izkušnje, so dali vedeti tudi stalno ponavljajoči se napisi prasetina. In pa pravoslavna cerkev v gradnji, s katere se je bahavo sončila srbska zastava. Ujagala ... read more

Hola a todos! Perdonad el retraso en actualizar el blog, la verdad es que hace ya una semana que hemos vuelto a casa pero he pensado que mas vale tarde que nunca y teniendo en cuenta que 2 años despues de su nacimiento el Hombre Mochila ha vuelto a aparecer en nuestras vidas y nuestros viajes , es digno de mención asi que ahi va el resumen del viaje: Tras pasar unos dias en Mostar, una ciudad preciosa a pesar de las visibles heridas de guerra, Marc y yo esperamos la llegada del autobús procedente de Dubrovnik. A las 20.00 h el autobus finalmente llega y de su interior aparece el H. Mochila, esta vez acompañado por la mujer de la maleta de ruedecitas. Tras Mostar visitamos la capital, Sarajevo. Aqui los edificios se han reconstruido ... read more

Hello, hello Well, we simply couldn't help ourselves, we saw Bosnia on the map, and thought, who visits Bosnia?! Well, that in itself was enough to convince us that we should make a stop there. So, Sarajevo was our destination and we knew this time we were city bound and not tenting due to the unexploded land mines that haunt the city. So, after a crude introduction to the local food (imagine a McDonald’s cheeseburger without the cheese, but with a bit more grease) for breakfast, we set out to see the city. It didn't take long for the lingering history of the city to flood the sight and sense, but it was interesting and inspiring to see people my age, walking about and just knowing what they have experience over the last decade and constantly ... read more

We were not sure when we woke up whether our city tour was to go ahead or not. At breakfast the two guys from New Zealand (Dubrovnik bus, Mostar, restaurant etc) were on the table adjacent to us and in chatting we discovered they had also signed up for the tour. Breakfast was chicken soup for Rob and chickenless soup for me. If soup wasn't weird enough we also both had a little pot of rice pudding. The tour was run by Mustafa, the guy that picked us up from the station yesterday. He introduced himself and told us a little about what we were driving past. Our first stop was the tunnel museum which is quite far out of the center near to the airport. The museum is run by a family whose house the ... read more

Rob left the heating on 30°C all night so we both woke up pretty warm. Neither of us wanted to go back to old town so instead we walked into a part of the new town called Lapad. We bought some stamps so that we could get our postcards sent off and then we were stuck for something to do. We both discussed the possibility of getting something to eat and began to search for somewhere. It was only when we found a pleasant Italian that we discussed with each other that we weren't hungry. After this we headed to a supermarket and bought bread, fruit, dried fruit etc for the bus journey. We sat outside the supermarket and had baguette and the jam from the previous day. Seeing as though we couldn't think of anything ... read more