Pansion Most Mostar

... in the crossfire. Old tires were slung over its sides to absorb some of the impact from nearby artillery or shrapnel. In November of 1993, Croats began shelling the bridge from the top of the nearby mountain. Several direct hits caused the venerable Old Bridge to lurch, then tumble in pieces into the river. The mortar inside, which contained pink bauxite, turned the water red as it fell in. Locals said that their old friend was bleeding.<br><br>The decision to destroy ...

... one of the most happy, energetic, and passionate people I&#8217;ve ever met. As I would learn the next day, the fact Bata is alive and breathing is probably the reason he is as happy and energetic as he is. On the ride to the hostel Bata gave us a glimpse of his life and told us he was giving a 13 hour tour of Mostar and the surrounding area the next day. Brandon and I were immediately convinced we needed to stay here an extra day to experience this tour.<br><br>Upon getting to ...

... nasty sweaty smelly messes. I had put my bag in storage at the left luggage office with a woman whose personality was as about as charming as a boulder, and I needed to face her again to retrieve it. She was built like a Mack Truck and wasn't one I'd want to tangle with.<br><br>Anxious to retrieve my bag with only a few minutes before the bus was leaving, I went to her window where she ignored me. Remember my lessons on how to deal with the Marseillans ...

... and even gave us a welcome juice on arrival! The beds were so comfy that Petrov was impressed enough to crawl out of his acccomodations for night on the Pierre Cardin blanket!<br><br>After a walk in the market, a walk to Stari Most and a tasty lunch, I decided to get out and walk about. Mostar has a very interesting history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostar#Bo snian_war), especially when it comes to its part in the ...

... the back and said are you trying to hit on me! and he looked me square in teh face very serious and said yes. ummm haha okkkkkk??? you got me I have nothing else to say!!! so anyways he ended up showing me around on these two big cool boats and I have this awesome picture of me pretending to drive the old navy boat! then I ditched him and went partying with the group!<br><br>We went to this cave bar it was actually ...

... colors in the flowers. Its God's coloring book. The day today (second day) was beautiful, blue skies, white clouds, made it picture perfect and I was snap happy! After a nice Bosnian meal and Sarejevsko beer, I was on my way to explore the town in my planned out circle- start from the old town, turn around at the end of the pedestrian street, and walk back through the boulevard that was the front line for the war here. The orientation for the war was fairly simply, they ...

... it did. From there we went to our final stop a small town called Blgaj which has a river running through it and at the end of it there is an old house built into the river which runs from a cave and is really beatiful. The house was built int he 13th centrury or so and next to it was a cave from where the water comes from. The story is that French divers went to discover how long the cave was and it goes back for 600 meters then goes underwater for 60 meters then comes out in ...

... j'ai demande si on vendait de la biere au resto, je me suis fait repondre:"evidemment..." je trouve ca bien triste de voir comment on utilise la religion a d'autres fins... par exempleil y a une petie guerre genre: "mon clocher est plus haut ton minaret..."et vice-versa...il y a une immense croix dressee sur une haute montagne qu'on voit partout en ville; il parait qu'elle est recente et a ete placee la pour enerver les musulmans... un de ceux-ci ...

English further down. Har naa kommet meg til Mostar i Bosnia Herzegovina. Her er det fullt av Bosniere som ikke vil/kan snakke engelsk. Og naar taalmodigheten synker proporsjonalt med temperaturen saa er det ikke saa greit. Men man faar bare laere seg aa leve med litt hoderysting og sukking, sukke og riste litt tilbake innimellom. Ferdig med det. Det er litt merkelig aa komme hit. Krigshistorien blir veldig naer, nesten litt for paatrengend til tider. Gikk langs den gamle frontlinjen i ...

... the countryside still shines through, look... The rain then hurried us out of town, I'm afraid to say. On the way out we attempted to indulge Dad's passion for planes at the local airport, but my god, if anything ever flew there, you wouldn't know about it ...