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2 August 2014
My host Naser also runs a water taxi and was taking a group of Poles out for a fish picnic. I was invited to join in for EUR25 including wine, raki, drinks etc. I was told to be ready at half-ten. As it turns out, it was half-to-ten (Indonesian style, as I learnt in Papua […]
1 August 2014
Above: I stayed in the old city, high above the crowds (in the background). I left my accommodation at Kotor as late as possible, around 1045, for Ulcinj. I didn’t want to go too early in case the room at Ulcinj wasn’t ready yet. I walked to the bus station and was on the bus […]
31 July 2014
Wet Start at Kotor I woke at 0700 to more rain, thunder and lightning. I looked out the door and the weather was like the end of the world. I curled back into bed and wrote the day off. I told myself that the things I had planned are really “more of the same”; not […]
30 July 2014
Above: View of Kotor with cruiseliner; it was very humid with lots of cloud before a long torrential downpour. Buses from Podgorica to Kotor are frequent so I didn’t really need to think about what time I had to go to the station. I went down the road for a coffee and burek for breakfast […]
29 July 2014
I had gone to bed around 2130 last night feeling really tired despite a “nothing” day. Hence I woke at 0530 with the sun streaming into my room. I decided to head off early to Ostrog on the 0700 train. As the train pulled away on time, my alarm on my phone rang. I had […]
28 July 2014
Flying with Ryan again The weather changed today. It got cloudy and drizzly with cooler weather; still bearable without a second layer. Kim left about 0700 by metro and train for Brussels’ Zaventem airport bound for Dublin and Chicago. As for me, I’m heading back to the Balkans. I really enjoyed Bosnia Y Herzegovina last […]
29 August 2013
I took the 0900 bus back to Sarajevo which got me in at 1130. I had a brief rest before starting my tour from the Tourist Information Centre to the Tunnel of Life. As Sarajevo was largely surrounded by the Serb forces, then tunnel under the airport runway allowed food and supplies to be brought […]
28 August 2013
I had planned to make an excursion today to a nice town called Blagaj or the waterfalls at Kravice. I couldn’t decide and neither could the others that I had invited. It started raining around 0900; it came down in big globules like in the tropics. There were several breaks which were nearly sufficient for […]
27 August 2013
I went to Mostar 11 years ago when the old stone bridge destroyed during the war hadn’t been rebuilt yet. There was a wooden one in its place. I wanted to seem how things have progressed and whether the rift between the Muslim and Croat side had healed. The bus left Sarajevo at 1130 and […]
26 August 2013
Today I do begin a side-trip to Bosnia & Herzegovina. I had went to Herzegovina in 2002 and other parts of the Balkans during several other trips. It is a rather expensive place to get to from Europe by flight due to limited options. But from Istanbul, I managed to prebook great fares on Pegasus […]