October 2023. Newmillerdam. Wakefield. I tried desperately to come up with a blogpost using the Elvis classic as inspiration, but since none of you (except fellow ticker Eddie) knows Newmillerdam it’s wasted effort. My life of perpetual travel began the year after marrying Mrs RM; before that we’d hardly left Letchworth and Cambridge but in… Continue reading NEWMILLERDAM – GO FOR THE BASS, BUT STAY FOR THE FISH AND CHIPS
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RETURN TRAY WONDERS IN WAKEFIELD !
October 2023. Crigglestone. Wakefield. We arrived back at Luton Airport to collect our vehicle the day before THIS; Glad we were only away for a week. It took a few days of parent-visiting before I could get back into the swing of visiting weirdly names Yorkshire villages. In fact, I’d never heard of Crigglestone, whose… Continue reading RETURN TRAY WONDERS IN WAKEFIELD !
SARAJEVO ’84 BOBSLEIGH TRACK
October 2023. Sarajevo. Bosnia Herzegovina. One last Balkan post before I return to exciting posts from (checks photos) Wakefield and Wem. In a sense we left the best till last. The famous Winter Olympics bobsleigh and luge track is Sarajevo’s equivalent of London’s disused Olympic stadium that a minor football team plays at, or the… Continue reading SARAJEVO ’84 BOBSLEIGH TRACK
FINALLY, THE CRAFT PLACE IN SARAJEVO
October 2023. Sarajevo. Bosnia & Herzegovina. The penultimate Bosnia post, which is a relief for me as much as you as I keep forgetting whether it’s Bosnia Herzegovina, or “&” or “and”. Wars start over these things; on Discourse anyway. These days I prefer overseas tours to be less than a week as by the… Continue reading FINALLY, THE CRAFT PLACE IN SARAJEVO
THE BEST SERVICE WE’VE EVER HAD
October 2023. Sarajevo. We’d spent two hours in a minibus wondering whether our Bosnian tour guide could get the indomitable US traveller Haley back to a hotel by 20:35 to meet a transfer to a bus to Belgrade from which she would head to Nice, and thence possibly to Chad. We couldn’t keep up with… Continue reading THE BEST SERVICE WE’VE EVER HAD
DON’T GO CHASING WATERFALLS (OR WE’LL MISS MOSTAR)
October 2023. Waterfalls, somewhere in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A reminder of the route for our day trip from Sarajevo. Seven of us; Mrs RM and me, a couple from Marseille, and three ladies from Haifa, Seattle and Cambridge (wherever that is) travelling alone. Quite a mixed crowd, and we got to learn quite a bit… Continue reading DON’T GO CHASING WATERFALLS (OR WE’LL MISS MOSTAR)
A BRIDGE TOO FAR – BOSNIA IN A DAY
October 2023. Bosnia & Herzegovina. Despite this latest Balkan adventure being notionally a “holiday” every day started with a 7am alarm, and Saturday saw us standing outside the Balkan tourist office at 8 after a lightning breakfast; Good to know : those shredded wheat pastries are not a patch on the One True Way that… Continue reading A BRIDGE TOO FAR – BOSNIA IN A DAY
A PINT OF “MIXED” AT SARAJEVO’S PIVNICA
October 2023. Sarajevo. Bosnia & Herzegovina. In truth there’s a limited number of different things you can do when exploring a new city. Aimless walking, rating churches, burnt out Olympic sites, arguments over Untappd ratings and huge lunches are obviously a key part of the visit, but it would be unusual if a pub didn’t… Continue reading A PINT OF “MIXED” AT SARAJEVO’S PIVNICA
A JOURNEY TO THE SOURCE OF THE RIVER BOSNA
October 2023. Ilidža. Bosnia & Herzegovina Mrs RM had ambitions to get us round the whole of Bosnia in 4 days, but our Friday trip south to Mostar was cancelled due to the driver being tired; you could have been on Northern Rail again. So I spent Thursday evening scrambling around for something authentically Bosnian,… Continue reading A JOURNEY TO THE SOURCE OF THE RIVER BOSNA
CRAFT BEER AND BAKLAVA IN SARAJEVO’S OLD BAZAAR
October 2023. Sarajevo. Bosnia & Herzegovina. Mrs RM had found us a modest hotel right in the heart of Baščaršija, Sarajevo’s old bazaar. I hadn’t really imagined Bosnia’s capital looking like a mini-Istanbul, which is what you get when you don’t read your history. A bit less frantic than a Turkish old town, but just… Continue reading CRAFT BEER AND BAKLAVA IN SARAJEVO’S OLD BAZAAR
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