Whenever I heard the word Sarajevo, I’m immediately take back to the Balkan conflict of the 1990’s. At that time Sarajevo suffered a siege of the city of 3.5 years. There was a tunnel dug from the airport which allowed supplies to be fed through to inhabitants. On the bus to Sarajevo, I found myself… Read More »
I had heard a while ago about Montenegro but I was uninformed about the place so that when I got here the beauty of the place was a shock to me. As the bus descended the mountains of Bosnia the bus passengers all got their phones out to take photos of the coast. It’s the… Read More »
Leaving Vienna, the train took me through the sort of landscape that you imagine for Austria – green valleys with flower meadows and picture book houses. All the roads and houses are ordered, tidy, well-maintained and beautiful with the backdrop of high mountains. The train was clean and efficient making a big change from the… Read More »
I had promised my friend Tessa that I would call on her one day i Bonn and it has taken several years but I eventually found some time in between contracts. Flying seemed quite expensive and so was the train so in the end I got a flight to Eindhoven in Netherlands and got a… Read More »