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
Tag: Bosnia & Herzegovina
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
SAUSAGES IN SARAJEVO
October 2023. Sarajevo. Bosnia Herzegovina. I really wanted to fit that song about Bono saving Bosnia into a blog title, but I couldn’t, and it’s probably best not too joke about wars at the moment. Looking at the map I’ve only just noticed how much of Bosnia Herzegovina (wish they’d shorten their name to Bosgov)… Continue reading SAUSAGES IN SARAJEVO
OH WELL, IT’LL BE CARLSBERG THEN. A NIGHT OF CRAFT BEER DISAPPOINTMENT IN BOSNIA
October 2023. Tuzla. Bosnia & Herzegovina. It was only 17:28 on our only night in Tuzla before an early departure the next morning to Sarajevo. And Tuzla, a city of 110,000, the Newport (Gwent) of Bosnia, looked dead. Even the famed “free beer dispensers cunningly disguised as water fountains” weren’t operational. Tuzla is over 75%… Continue reading OH WELL, IT’LL BE CARLSBERG THEN. A NIGHT OF CRAFT BEER DISAPPOINTMENT IN BOSNIA
A TUZLA TEASER
October 2023. Tuzla. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Our triumphant entry into Bosnia, via a smoking shelter at Raca Bridge, saw Mrs RM increase her number of European country ticks to 38 out of 45. A spreadsheet is well overdue, as is her blog. We need to visit Albania (booked), Bulgaria (oddly, not), Moldova (who ?), Belarus… Continue reading A TUZLA TEASER
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