Bosnia Part III – north-western Bosnia – Late May 2017
Banja Luka, back into Republika Srpska After my pleasant stay in Babanovac, I kept heading in a northerly direction, along a long low ridge, having to take some care when passing over the old front line from the war, I could see mine fields marked all over the area on the minefield map I had […]
Bosnia Part II – Central Bosnia – May 2017
Sarajevo – where East meets West I approached Sarajevo from the East, traversing across the flanks of Trebević mountain. The Mountain towers over central Sarajevo, and was made notorious during the 4-year siege of the city by Bosnian Serb forces in the Bosnian War (1). It was one of key artillery positions from where […]
Bosnia Part I – Eastern Bosnia
Bosnia Part I – Eastern Bosnia Into the unknown Failing to spot anywhere suitable to camp on my last evening in Serbia; the dying of the light forced me to camp far closer to a village than I’d have liked. I wasn’t quite in somebody’s back garden, but I was close enough to keep my […]