Seaaa!!!

Todays mission is to get to the sea and see Potcitel, a village on the way recommended by a German Bosnian girl i met about two month ago on the ferry to Brac in Croatia.


After standing in the sun a while, we get a ride from Mostar, with two soldiers from the EUFOR, the European force. They are here to take action if something real unusual or bad happens, in support of local police and military. They are on a long weekend and are going to the Bosnian coast. Barbero and Calbo are Spanish, funny, laughing, smart, helpful, critic, dedicated, pretty cool with good musical tastes. Not exactly the image i had of military :) And i must say they very much rehabilitated the military in my opinion.

As we chat they decide to stop in Potcitel with us and visit this old fort entirely built on a hill side with fortifications along the ridge, a castle somewhere on the top and the river down on the bottom.

Our dedicated drivers

Plocitel castle ans town.

There is a Christian tower and a Mosque but the village is now Muslim. During the walk trough this small village, Barbero explains how complicated the Bosnian situation is. The different ethnic or religious groups / nationalities are spread around in a mixed way and some villages are mixed some not. To this yo can add Italian style family rivalry and you get a little unstable situation.... Globally stable but locally not so easy.

Mosque and old Catholic clock tower.

View from the top of the castle tower.

We then almost pass the boarder without showing out passports... we are in an EUFOR car after all :) Getting in Croatia, it starts raining a little and our kind drivers take a little detour and bring us right to the port were out ferry leaves! Very nice those two! We just have time to walk around the port of what might be Croatia's most ugly city: Ploce and to share a pizza.

Mission accomplished!

Writing up exciting stories.

The ferry then takes us to Trpanje, beautiful small port, small city, not overcrowd as we will experience later in other places of Croatia. We chill at the beach, enjoy the sun that finally came out again and for good. We decide to stay here a bit, rest and do a little lazy beach laying, book reading and swimming. We find an apartment with kitchen, balcony, nice big bed and shower. The whole thing is brand new and clean, Something quite new for me on that trip. Being with Judith changes the standards a bit :)

Trpanje!