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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
If you were trying to get from Bristol to Sarajevo, how would you get there?
It's on my bucket list, Hotel Bristol in Sarajevo.
And my fave football team is playing there next week.
FC Sarajevo versus Glasgow Celtic in da Champions League.
Flights are terribly dear - €600.
I am trying to persuade my fella to take us on his motorcycle - 1200 miles.
Anyone got any ideas? |
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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
24 hours ago this was just a crazy off-the-wall idea.
I posted this thread on Fab.
You people have always got the answers.
That's what I love about this place - you post something totally random, and someone somewhere knows the answer.
Fabulous!
Thank you
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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
My fella came round to the idea of taking his motorcycle, by which time I was more excited by a suggestion above of going by Easyjet.
Return flights Bristol - Dubrovnik booked, hire car booked and just waiting now to hear about a flat in the old town centre.
By spooky coincidence, there is a Celtic FC bar in the old town, too lol.
Gonna be nuts!
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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
I'd assumed fella was gonna drive the hire car.
But he sent his licence away as ID for one of these heir-hunter things.
So now I'm going to drive.
I'm sure I'll get the hang of driving on the other side of the road.
Google tells me there are two routes, both about 4 hours - one via Foca and the other via Mostar.
Can anyone shed any light on the journey for a beginner?
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over a year ago
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"If you were trying to get from Bristol to Sarajevo, how would you get there?
It's on my bucket list, Hotel Bristol in Sarajevo.
And my fave football team is playing there next week.
FC Sarajevo versus Glasgow Celtic in da Champions League.
Flights are terribly dear - €600.
I am trying to persuade my fella to take us on his motorcycle - 1200 miles.
Anyone got any ideas?"
fly into split or dubrovnik and hire a car |
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If you get a chance, go to the island of Brac, stunning.
And if you fancy a bit of olde worlde romance, take a 6 hour train ride North-ish from Pristina to Budapest, it is a very scenic ride, although I doubt if they are still using the old railway carriages... I did it in 2002. |
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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
Ah, I see now, just noticed text messages from BT.
When I land at Dubrovnik, they send me a message say charges will be 10p/MB for data etc in Croatia.
Then as we came into Bosnia, they send another message saying charges with be £5/MB for data etc in Bosnia.
I switched that data thing off now and just using wifi.
Probably means I cannot use the "See who's near" function. |
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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
It's been fab.
Journey was a drama.
Five nights.
Night three.
Football at 1945
Big game for local team.
25 degrees and rain.
Celtic Pub just got a bit too raucous for us, so retreating to a wine bar on our way to the Olympic stadium where they held the opening ceremony for 1984 winter Olympics.
It's the most fascinating, multicultural place, where east meets west.
People watching is amazing. |
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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
Today is the 24th anniversary day of the Srebrenica massacre.
Big ceremony in Potocari for the burial of 33 recently discovered victims.
On Tuesday, President Erdogan of Turkey was in Sarajevo for a procession of remembrance.
I am shocked by how much I forgot or did not know.
120,000 civilians massacred, 2 million refugees.
Concentration camps and mass executions.
The siege of Sarajevo.
Shocking stuff. Really shocking.
I visited the Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.
About 7 people a year still dying from land mines.
Horrible. |
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"Today is the 24th anniversary day of the Srebrenica massacre.
Big ceremony in Potocari for the burial of 33 recently discovered victims.
On Tuesday, President Erdogan of Turkey was in Sarajevo for a procession of remembrance.
I am shocked by how much I forgot or did not know.
120,000 civilians massacred, 2 million refugees.
Concentration camps and mass executions.
The siege of Sarajevo.
Shocking stuff. Really shocking.
I visited the Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.
About 7 people a year still dying from land mines.
Horrible."
It's very sad what happend, I remember thinking how could something like that be allowed, |
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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago
Bristol East |
Yes. This was happening on the doorstep of Europe.
Ethnic cleansing of the kind last seen in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.
The world seemed indifferent to what was going on.
It was only really when a mortar shell on a market killed 40-odd that Clinton banged some heads together and bombed the Serb positions.
The loss of life by that stage was dreadful.
It appears that 43 people have been convicted of war crimes and imprisoned. |
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"Today is the 24th anniversary day of the Srebrenica massacre.
Big ceremony in Potocari for the burial of 33 recently discovered victims.
On Tuesday, President Erdogan of Turkey was in Sarajevo for a procession of remembrance.
I am shocked by how much I forgot or did not know.
120,000 civilians massacred, 2 million refugees.
Concentration camps and mass executions.
The siege of Sarajevo.
Shocking stuff. Really shocking.
I visited the Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.
About 7 people a year still dying from land mines.
Horrible.
It's very sad what happend, I remember thinking how could something like that be allowed, "
I was there in 1995 as part of the UN Peacekeeping Force. The level of destruction and devastating was enormous and will stay with me forever. |
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We hope to reach our flat in the city centre about 2300hrs if everything goes to plan.
