I really love you guys! Writing this before I even read the article to give you the feedback of how much I love seeing a photo of the two of you together smiling with a beautiful background!! It makes me so happy to see you in my inbox! ❤️
Thank you for sharing about Mostar. My daughter-in-law is Bosniak. A month ago, my son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter moved to Bosnia. I've been seeing all of the photos they post and it looks like a beautiful country. Now that they are there, my husband and I will spend several months a year in Bosnia each year. We're looking forward to our first trip there next Spring. Now that we are in our second week as nomads, I'll be starting my Substack blog soon. I anticipate many posts while we're in Bosnia...there is so much to share about this interesting country!
We visited Mostar in 2017 after our stop in Sarajevo where I turned my ankle so bad I thought I’d have to cut our trip short. But boy those “massage” stones made it very challenging. So no exploring but our hotel had a lovely view of the bridge. Glad you went to the monastery, we went very early in the morning and I loved it. But a very tragic region to be sure.
I did a road trip to Mostar from Dubrovnik in 2012. I found the border checkpoints interesting as B&H was “come on in!” and pre-EU Croatia was much more strict in their review of our US passports. Mostar was beautiful but all the pockmarked buildings was a bit chilling.
Yeah, now the border crossings are super chill, which is nice. But both Sarajevo and Mostar were very sobering places with all of that war damage still so visible.
Sounds like we were struck by many of the same things in Bosnia. But that little snippet about Bosniak and Croat kids still having to divide the school day between themselves breaks my heart all over again
I'm currently reading Michael Palin's NEW EUROPE, about touring Europe in the early 2000s, and he first starts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and talks about how their civil war in the 1990s is still very much alive in the minds and hearts of the people living there. Most of the people he met who took him around were former soldiers or insurgents....
I really love you guys! Writing this before I even read the article to give you the feedback of how much I love seeing a photo of the two of you together smiling with a beautiful background!! It makes me so happy to see you in my inbox! ❤️
Thank you, Reda! What a lovely thing to hear!
Thank you for sharing about Mostar. My daughter-in-law is Bosniak. A month ago, my son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter moved to Bosnia. I've been seeing all of the photos they post and it looks like a beautiful country. Now that they are there, my husband and I will spend several months a year in Bosnia each year. We're looking forward to our first trip there next Spring. Now that we are in our second week as nomads, I'll be starting my Substack blog soon. I anticipate many posts while we're in Bosnia...there is so much to share about this interesting country!
Oh, wow, you'll really get an interesting perspective on the country then! Be sure to do a rafting trip on the Neretva. It was fantastic!
Excellent post, no notes. 😉
Who dis? LOL LOL
I love these Daytrip posts! Great to get a bite-sized overview of a place like this.
You do the hiking and we'll do these!
We visited Mostar in 2017 after our stop in Sarajevo where I turned my ankle so bad I thought I’d have to cut our trip short. But boy those “massage” stones made it very challenging. So no exploring but our hotel had a lovely view of the bridge. Glad you went to the monastery, we went very early in the morning and I loved it. But a very tragic region to be sure.
Yeah, also not a fan of those massage stones! LOL But Mostar is a fascinating, tragic, and moving place.
We visited Mostar from Dubrovnik a couple of years ago. The whole region is suffused with melancholy- this town most of all
100% right.
Thanks for this. I might have to see Mostar and other places there for myself. You make me curious—always a good thing.
I think you would very much enjoy here and the rest of Eastern Europe.
I did a road trip to Mostar from Dubrovnik in 2012. I found the border checkpoints interesting as B&H was “come on in!” and pre-EU Croatia was much more strict in their review of our US passports. Mostar was beautiful but all the pockmarked buildings was a bit chilling.
Yeah, now the border crossings are super chill, which is nice. But both Sarajevo and Mostar were very sobering places with all of that war damage still so visible.
Sounds like we were struck by many of the same things in Bosnia. But that little snippet about Bosniak and Croat kids still having to divide the school day between themselves breaks my heart all over again
Tragic, isn't it?
I left Mostar 1 week ago and my next essay is on Bosnia! I look forward to reading this one!
And I look forward to reading yours!
I'm currently reading Michael Palin's NEW EUROPE, about touring Europe in the early 2000s, and he first starts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and talks about how their civil war in the 1990s is still very much alive in the minds and hearts of the people living there. Most of the people he met who took him around were former soldiers or insurgents....