Blogs from Mostar, South, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Europe - page 10

Bosnia

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » South » Mostar August 13th 2006

Medjugorje

dan n haze

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Bridge over troubled water

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » South » Mostar August 12th 2006

Mal and Bec

Hello! It's been a long time between drinks, but here is an update... We have now left Croatia for Bosnia. We spent the past five days staying in Dubrovnik (you may remember it from such wars as the Croatian war, when it was bombed within an inch of its life). Due to a Herculean restoration effort, the city is back looking as it did before the conflict. When you visit the old city, the only ways you can tell that anything is amis are the difference in colours between the roofing tiles, and the telltale plaque which shows which buildings were damaged by "attrocities committed by the Bosnian and Montenegrin aggressors". On a related note, we had the strange experience of being present in Croatia during their national thanksgiving (nationhood) day last week. There is something ... read more

"And like a bridge over troubled water..."

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » South » Mostar July 21st 2006

You betcha Neretva

ZobeZ

Friday morning, I woke up in the apartment in Dubrovnik, screamed in the bathroom as a fuzzy centipede-like creature crawled out of the floor drain, and finished off the rest of my milk and cereal- hooray for cereal! Nikola had been very kind in that he said that he would buy a ticket for the 8:00 am bus to Mostar for me; I could just pay him back. However, as I was finishing my packing, Danijela came in and explained that the bus for Mostar was sold out. Argh! That was OK, she said, Nikola would drive me down there anyway to see if I could squeeze in. Though I was ready at the discussed time, 7:30 am, we didn't leave until after 7:45, when Nikola told me that we also had to pick up a ... read more

Mostar

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » South » Mostar April 16th 2006

Stari Most

Danieljh

The Bus Ride from Dubrovnik was priddy uneventful i expected the border crossing to take a while.. went through about 3 or 4 different on the way there.. the scenery was nice on the way there some of the rivers were just polluted with rubbish but still nice enough. when i got to Mostar a lady was waitin for me and took me to her apartment where i stayed for 10 euros.. mostar itself was nicest places i visited, i liked the place even tho you could see everythin in a few hours. mostar itself is devided with croats on one side and muslims on the other.. saw the former front line on the croat side which has a few empty skeleton buldings on it.. there is still obvious signs of the fighting that went on ... read more

And finally ... The One With Personality

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » South » Mostar September 1st 2005

The Beautiful Neretva River

Jenni Jen

Whatever her sister Croatia was lacking in personality, Bosnia made up for tenfold. The sayings that “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” and that conflict breeds character serve to explain why this last of my Balkan sisters was not only the most controversial, but also the most interesting as well. Though I had been easily mesmerized by the physical beauty of Croatia, it was about on par with Tijuana or Cancun in offering any sort of memorable cultural insight and I was thirsting for real inspiration. In addition, my EU area tourist visa was due to expire soon and the border patrols failed to even look at my passport upon entry into Croatia, let alone to stamp it (the underlying reason behind this whole trip!) So I started flipping through my excursion options from the ... read more

The Way It Used To Be - Chapter Twenty: Mostar

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » South » Mostar August 9th 2005

Stari Grad

sapere18

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 city’s 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 continued a few more hundred yards, almost completely out of the downtown area. I realized I had gone too far only because the density of tourists had become more sparse. Moreover, the bridge I did manage to reach was a metal monstrosity for motor traffic. This was embarrassing, having come all this distance to miss my intended target and to have to double ... read more

Tourists at the old frontline

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » South » Mostar July 23rd 2005

The bridge

zofka

I've been on my way for a time now. Currently, I'm in Kotor, but I would wish to give a little update on both Mostar and Dubrovnik. So to start with Mostar... Mostar I came after a sleepy busride from Split. I had really been looking forward to see the reconstructed bridge and the reunited city. But as I arrived to the famous bridge and found myself back in the tourist hell of Split I got rather down and went for a coke and a little break from the endless bazaar streching on both sites of the bridge. All these daytrippers from Dubrovnik almost breaking the bridge for the second time with there uncountable number of feet, legs, arms, cameras and convirtable marks. I know I myself am a tourist and one in the bunch and ... read more

Mostar

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » South » Mostar August 8th 1975

Stari Most

AndrewHL

Mostar was a lunch stop on the road from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik. The highlight of a visit to Mostar is the Old Bridge (Stari Most) spanning the Neretva River. The town takes its name from the word mostari (keepers of the bridge). We saw the original bridge, built by the Ottomans in the 16th century. (Sadly, it was destroyed during the 1993 Bosnian War, but was rebuilt in 2004.) Mostar began as an Ottoman Turkish outpost and came under Austrian dominion in the 19th century. It became a meeting point of Western and Middle Eastern Cultures. It's Turkish heritage is attested by the number of mosques and the bazaar in the old town.... read more

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