Apartments Konak Mostar
Marsala Tita 125 Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Mostar and the troubled journey to recovery
... younger generations had picked up and inflamed them. Where once there had been one football team for the city, there were now two – one for the east and one for the west. Now the kids had new flags to wave and new uniforms to wear that ingrained in them a new-found sense of difference and antagonism. Massive unemployment rates around 40% ensured that these differences could be used as tools to scapegoat and antagonise further.
“WMC”, read some graffiti on ...
You never know!
... to the houses and other small restaurants. I continued walking through the town in disbelief that it was completely surrounded by walls and yes, now I am a believer. It was a beautiful place and you must see it. From Dubrovnik I took a bus to Mostar, Bosnia and was again encountered by someone offering a place to stay. It was a younger girl and her father they seemed decent so I thought sure why not? It's not like I had any other plans. ...
Most Pleasant
... except for the Separatist region of the Serbs living in Bosnia.
A day later, the Serbian army invaded and started wiping out villages in the east before moving on to Sarajevo and laying siege to it for 4 long years. Eventually they came to Mostar. Mostar is basically a thin town on two sides of a river, that runs through a gorge below. When the Serbs arrived they occupied only the Eastern side of Mostar, and the Bosnians had no idea why. Anyway, ...
Bosnia/Hercegovnia...... beauty and sadness
... overlooking the bridge and river and I had vegetable soup and read my book for a while.
We wandered around the interesting streets and I bought Alaiya a cute turkish scarf /skirt for 5 E or 10 marks and then caught the ...
La poudrière
... c'était par le passé un rite de passation au monde adulte pour les jeunes garçons, qui devaient exécuter le saut périlleux pour démontrer leur masculinité! Malheureusement pour nous, les conditions météorologiques et le peu d'affluence touristique nous privèrent du spectacle... Pour terminer, un top-3 des jeux de voyages qui nous permettent de passer le temps dans les transports, ou tout simplement quand on a pu rien à se dire devant une bière! ...


