A quicker there and back
Today I did a quick 'there and back
again' to Sarajevo. This was made all the quicker by the completion
of another section of motorway since the last time I made the trip;
that was mid-May, if my memory serves me right. It's strange to think
that the six-and-a-month gap between that trip and today's represents
my longest absence from the city in the last five years. We arrived
to wintery-cold in the country's capital on Thursday 29th
November 2007, on a now discontinued BA flight from London, at the
start of our first trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since then large
parts of the city have become familiar stomping grounds.
But while we can look forward to faster
journeys to Sarajevo in the future we are unlikely to see any change
to times to Mostar. Geography dictates the winding mountain roads are
unlikely to ever be widened. We are taking some of the young people
who attend Novi Most activities in Jajce to Mostar this weekend. The
temptation is to try to get to the end of a long a winding road as
quickly as realistically possible but three hours of twisting and
turning provides all too much opportunity for travel sickness. Having
cleared up vomit in our van three times this weekend I'll be trying
to drive extra-specially slowly and smoothly next time out!
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