Blown Away in Bosnia

Advantages: A genuine eye-opener. Stunning views, friendly people.
Disadvantages: Watch out for the landmines. Hygiene and health and safety are a long way from what we're used to.

...I wanted that title to be as crass and tasteless as possible, for reasons I hope will become apparent later. It's taken me two months to get down to writing this piece, because no matter how I re-wrote it, the original article just ended up sounding like Beer Tears. Mostar lies three hours inland by coach from the seductive tourist trap of Dubrovnik, across the border into mountainous Bosnia-Herzegovina...

Plissken 17.12.2004 14:06 · Read review
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Review of Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Sarajevo - simply sublime

Advantages: Plenty to see; good value for money;
Disadvantages: No budget flights yet (but also a good thing!)

...stands in Ba?Äar?ija square; it was damaged during the Bosnian War but has since been restored and stands in its original location once more. I dreamed of seeing it one day. Today Sarajevo is the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Under the terms of the Dayton Peace Accord, Bosnia and Herzegovina was split into two entities, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska. It was also...

fizzytom 18.10.2009 12:20 (20.10.2009 23:28) · Read review
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Review of Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Mostar - rebuilding bridges?

Advantages: Lots of culture and history, cheap, tasty food, kind people
Disadvantages: Those slippy footpaths!

...I remember seeing, as a child, a photograph showing daring young Yugoslav men jumping from a bridge into impossibly blue water below. It struck me as very exciting and must have made quite an impression on me as I told myself that one day I would see it for myself. The bridge was in Mostar which is now in the independent country of Bosnia and Herzegovina; more specifically, it is the regional...

fizzytom 22.09.2009 23:35 (22.09.2009 23:43) · Read review
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Review of Mostar (Bosnia-Herzegovina)