Blogs from Bosnia & Herzegovina, Europe - page 26

Moin Leute, heute sind wir von Ulcini nach Mostar gefahren, die Stadt duerfte dem einen oder anderen aus dem Bosnien-Krieg und vor allem durch ihre mittelalterliche, damals zerstoerte Bruecke bekannt sein. Der Eintrag faellt leider etwas kuerzer aus, da der bloede Internetbetreiber keine USB-Sticks erlaubt. Hochachtungsvoll, j.... read more

We've been on our hols round a few of the Balkan countries for almost a week now although it feels like much longer. We started by flying into Split where we got a bus to the centre from airport and met the girl whose apartment we were staying in, which was really nice, a tiny little thing which we had to ourselves with kitchen and everything you'd need for much longer than the one night we were staying. We took in the small town with it's nice waterfront, old Roman palace and random 'beach' (more like a bit of concrete with horrible pebbly bit) but it was hot all the same so it was really nice. After we had done that we inevitably ended up in several bars and stayed there for the day. We ate ... read more

Groeten uit Jajce! Waar? Jajce, klein plaatsje in Bosnie-Hercegovina :) 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 uit-ge-brei-de beschrijving van wat we allemaal gegeten hebben... of niet, gewoon lekker gegeten, veel vis en pizza en pasta en vlees en salades en ijsjes. Jummie! In Mostar (waar we de vorige blog-entry schreven) hebben we van alles gezien in de oude stad: natuurlijk de Oude Brug diverse keren; een moskee met een minaret die we beklommen hebben; de frontlinie van de oorlog, d.w.z. waar die vroeger liep, met veel kapotgeschoten gebouwen eraan; het Turkse Huis, ingericht zoals Turken hier vroeger woonden. Zaterdagochtend om 6:00 op! We gingen namelijk heel vroeg met ... read more

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 any meat when travelling since it is eith to expensive or to hard to find a place to cook but in Bosnia it is the best! This place we stopped at had 12 spit roasts on the go and some how we managed to get a massive roll of meat each and it was the best! Just imagine ... read more

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 lined with souvenir shops with hundreds of minarets overlooking them. Its only when you take a second look that you see that almost every single building is peppered with bullet holes and those that arent are reconstructions funded by other countries to help rebuild the region after the war when Yugoslavia broke up. The place seemed to be ... read more