Down to Mostar

We leave an other nice pair of friends made in Sarajevo. As Judith says its it is not pleasant to leave people when you just met them and start to know them and like them. But many new exciting adventure are waiting for us in Bosnia and further. Today we want to get to Mostar and eventually further. So we get on the tram to the outskirts of town. Somewhere along the way, three Gypsy kids get up on the back of the tram and a fourth one sits outside, on the piece supposed to connect two carriages. He sits there, looks up laughing and banging at the window once in while then down at the track zooming by beneath him. The reaction of people in the tram are various, most of them are smiling seeing those kids having fun but some are swearing around. As the kid wants to get back on at the red light, forcing his way through the loosen doors, a men blocks the door and pushes him out. He gets back on his outside seat and waits until the next real stop to get on. The kids chat a bit with us and ask we are from, the oldest of them tells me how tall i am and that he is 13. Can t believe it, they are so young, the other ones are 7, 9 and 10... and already so mature. They went to the school of life.



We wait a good hour before a women picks us up, she speaks German, works in a travel agency. I ask her if it is possible to make money doing what i do... don't seem easy... She is driving down to Mostar and will take us all the way.



The drive is beautiful and takes us through some canyons next to a river with crystal clear water. We rapidly arrive in Mostar where she shows us around, being in the traveling business she knows her way around real good :)



Mostar is charming, the weather is finally sweet again, that magnificent bridge, the clear water flowing trough and that cafe‘s terrace with view on the city and it numerous minarets. Since we entered Bosnia, even though it still feels like the same country (people, food, music... ), this is new in the landscape. We decide to sleep over, find a cheap room and go for dinner in one of those nice, well located restaurants. Massive dinner of meat once again. After a nice starter of local cheeses with a good house vine, Judith has a steak, the best in a long time she says, i have a special karadjordjovac. This rolled schnitzel normally filled with kajmak this time has kajmak and smoked ham :) Bon Appetit! Dobar Tek or Prietno as they say.
The local TV shows the old version of Fear and Laughing in Las Vegas... quite different from the one with Johnny Depp, and funny.