http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Bosnia and Herzegovina en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:59:37 BST Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:59:37 BST Driving south of Croatia took us into the worldrsquos newest country and maybe one of the smallest Montenegro. Montenegro became independent from Serbia two years ago and is slowly finding its place in the world of tourism. We drove to Budva the largest coastal town which is a very busy summer holiday destination and not much else. This is the type of beach you imagine when you think http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/blog-318266.html Groeten uit Jajce Waar Jajce klein plaatsje in BosnieHercegovina Mooi gelegen in de bergen bekend van een waterval naast het centrum.Wat hebben jullie gemist in het verhaal van Simone Misschien de verhalen over eten Laat ik dan eens beginnen met een uitgebreide beschrijving van wat we allemaal gegeten hebben... of niet gewoon lekker gegeten veel vis en pizza en pasta en vlees en http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/West/Jezero/blog-316528.html Groeten uit Mostar Bekend van die brug die 't bijna 500 jaar heeft volgehouden tot hij in de Joegoslavioorlog werd stukgeschoten... maar inmiddels is herbouwd. Het is hier errug warm De man in ons hotel vertelde dat het laatst 45 graden was...Maar vandaag zal Simone jullie vertellen wat we allemaal gedaan hebben de afgelopen 9 dagen Take it away... Simone Op woensdag de 13e hebben we va http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/South/Mostar/blog-314683.html 260708 WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOUR TRAIN JOURNEY IS 50 HOURS LONGI left Berlin bright and early. Pack and ready to go for '44 hour trip' I had bought lots of test cheap organic food from the local discount supermarket so common in Germany and the left overs from the amazing vegetarian fear Wenke and I had had the night before.But the rest of the next two days would not be that simple...The http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/blog-314548.html A little update since we only had two days in this place before we moved onto Belgrade.. Well we wish we had stayed longer in Sarajevo even though it is only a tiny city for the capital of a country. The bus trip from Dubrovnik was spectular going over mountains along cliffs and into deep valleys but the best part of the trip was the stop over we made along the way. We have not really been eating http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-312777.html I wasn't intending on going to Mostar but it seemed like every other backpacker in Europe was making the point of visiting the rebuilt Stari Most or Old Bridge. It also meant I wouldn't have to go through Zagreb twice to visit Split.I was picked up by the hostel owner from the train station and she gave me the potted history of the region during the war. Originally no one in Mostar thought they http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/South/Mostar/blog-310830.html After the longest train journey since the creation of trains and a 3 hour delay in Croatia where the local shop decided a good exchange rate was 1 euro to 1 kuna it should be 10 I finally made it in to Sarajevo just as they were locking up the station.Sarajevo is very different to the countries Ive been to so far due to its massively Turkish influence. The old town is a maze of cobbled streets http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-310828.html July 22We boarded the ferry and secured some pretty sweet seats on the deck in the shade. We had plenty of goodies to make this trip a success we just had no idea where we would go once we arrived at the port in Athens. About ten minutes from departure a young man asked James Did you learn any Greek while you were on the island James said no and they began conversing. Five minutes into the http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/blog-306668.html Text coming soon. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/blog-306418.html Text coming soon..... http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/South/Mostar/blog-306413.html Text coming soon. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-306384.html Quick notes following a day trip to Mostar BosniaHerzegovina Mostar was a charming medieval mountain town clinging to the banks of an emerald river. The Old Bridge framed mosques ancient stone buildings and narrow windy walkways. A fairy tale old town. Of course part of the tourist draw is the scars from the war in the 1990s. The Old Bridge was shelled and destroyed by Croats. More bui http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/South/Mostar/blog-305177.html Sarajevo on hieno En pssyt Istanbuliin asti mutta tm on meilkein yht hyv. Kulunut ja rhjinen kaupunki tynn elm. Sodan arvet ovat viel paikoitellen nhtviss talojen julkisivuissa. Kaupunki nytt vhn niin kuin laastaroidulta. Monista rakennuksista nkee ett niit on paikkailtu. Moskeijoiden minaretit luovat itmaisen tunnelman. Muslimeja nkyy mys katukuvassa hunnutettuja n http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-302644.html GooddayFirstly Mr McGregor dropped a bomb on us. Although this is not an uncommon occurance in Bosnia it nevertheless caused some consternation. It transpired that he was leaving in order to be present at the birth of his child. Accordingly he got on the first plane to Kuala Lumpur which happened to be from Zagreb three days later. Sarajevo turned out to be rather a highlight. We were housed i http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-302435.html Had fun in Sarajevo didn't tread on a landmine http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-295692.html Am back in Croatia Zagreb to be exact for two days before heading first to Munich then onto Berlin for language school After only three weeks of backpacking I can't wait to be camped out in the same place for an extended period of time. I think I left my stamina along with my favorite Target tank top and not a small amount of dignity back on the islands. Backpacking through Europe esp http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-291527.html Itrsquos been almost a month since I have been in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I covered quite a bit of the country I have been mostly located in the north eastern area. Currently I am located in a village called Cifluk the closest town near me is called Tesanj. Its about 4 miles from Cifluk and the closest city is called Doboj thatrsquos the city where I was born in it is about 20 miles from C http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/blog-290099.html Well here we are in Bosnia after a grueling twenty four hour commute from Sofia Bulgaria. We've been on four trains two of them transnational and when we arrived last night we were absolute shells. Completely knackered running on fumes. We arrived at the Sofia train station two nights ago with minutes to spare and spent a few frenzied minutes running around backpacks on trying to locate o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-283618.html Well it was amazing.. Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the countries you say to yourself why would I go there At least that's what I thought before hand. But when I arrived there I soon changed my mind. The Country is very lush and filled with mountains and rolling hills though you cant go hiking without a guide for fear of Landmines. Then you go to Sarajevo the Capitol which the only http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-281572.html Za doru269ak tokrat ni bilo niti polnozrnatega sorodnika zato smo se pa269 morali zadovoljiti z belim kruhom. Jebiga smo si pa zato privoscaron269ili belo kavo.Do Mostarja sva se skozi tunele brez lu269i ve269inoma vozila ob reki Neretvi. Bil je lep son269en dan po radiu so razlagali recept za ribo s krompirjem in 269ebulo za ideju za nedeljski ru269ak za nascarone http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-280130.html Hvala bogu da sem ze prvo noc ugotovila kaj sem pozabila doma cepke za usesa. Se dobro da se imela nekaj dodatne vate za antismrcanje.Zjutraj pa dorucak Ob pristni bosanski muziki ob kateri se clovek pocuti kot gledalec PINK TV sem si privoscila najboljsi mozen kompromis imitiacijo polnozrnatega kruha sirni namaz in instant capuccino iz vrecke. Pa se en caj za povrh. Da ne bi kdo mislil http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-279780.html We just returned from a week in Medjugorje. That is one very special place. Kate found a tour group from the U.S. who said that we could join them in Frankfurt. For a very reasonable price we got a round trip flight to Split Croatia a three hour bus ride to Medjugorje in Bosnia Herzegovina a nice room and breakfast and dinner each day. The group was led by Steve Shawl of www.medjugorje.org http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/blog-279686.html ... 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 hrvascaronkih naftnih polj do mejnega prehoda Gradiscaronka ki je neko269 bil Bosanska Gradiscaronka a so prvi del besedne zveze lepo prelepili in izbrisali mimo naju so scaronvigali http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-279447.html Anticipation has run very high about my visit to Mostar. Its Stari Most or Old Bridge is its eternal symbol of the link between the cityrsquos Muslim and Croat communities. My excitement and pace picked up during my brisk walk to the center as I envisioned the impact of casting my eyes upon it for the first time. But that eagerness propelled my right by it as I missed the right turn and co http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/South/Mostar/blog-278110.html Planning to leave Sarajevo in search of a Bosnia less plagued by tourists and bullet holes I was eager to veer off the touristcrushed SarajevoMostarDubrovnik path. I ran into the same smug tour guide form two days prior and finally posed him those questions that timidity had put a stop to. He was very forthcoming and honest and I admit now to liking him a lot more. Of course this has a lot http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/blog-278109.html From my compartment window the train slowed to a crawl and I watched towering apartment building give way to single homes tucked into hillsides. They looked down at a valley. Minarets shot up like spikes from domed mosques and the whaling commenced as that early hour marked the first call to Muslim prayer. Women dawned in burquas and stern faces held shopping bags by the platform. For a brie http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-278107.html Hi All I was in Bosnia over the weekend in both Mostar and Sarajevo. Here are some pictures. I still owe more pictures from Dubrovnik and the pictures from Montenegro from a few weeks ago but these pictures just took me alomst an hour to upload so those will have to wait.Ted http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-275482.html 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 aos despues de su nacimiento el Hombre Mochila ha vuelto a aparecer en nuestras vidas y nuestros viajes es digno de mencin asi que ahi va el resumen del viajeTras pasar unos dias en Mostar una ciudad preci http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/blog-268301.html After Budapest we were facing the issue of where we wanted to travel to next on the trip. We had about 7 days until we were scheduled to be in Venice to meet up with our friends Pete and Fallon. We looked at where trains in Budapest would take us and we decided to go to Belgrade Serbia.Our experience with the Serbs started right when we entered the train. We shared a compartment with a younger http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-245574.html A few pictures from my time in Bosnia http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Bosnia-and-Herzegovina/East/Sarajevo/blog-231555.html