Sunday 4 November 2007

WAKE UP!


" It wasn't a real war.... only brothers fooling around with each other pretending having a war"
-affirms the biker that we met in Zadar...
Of course he only went as far as Dubrovnik and through the Croatian coast.

Once you leave Croatia and arrive to Mostar (Bosnia and Herzegovina), you just need to look around to realize that the "adventurous" biker was completely wrong.

WAKE UP!!! The nice days travelling comfortably around Europe are over!!
That is the feeling through our minds as we enter this city.
Shattered schools, offices, Mosques, Churches, and other buildings everywhere are the scenery that locals can see everyday since 15 years ago. I guess that i gets to a point that you forget how it was and get used at how it is.
The old town, with it new bridge as jumping point for the brave divers, is where more or less you can not see many crumbled buildings and where if you do not look around much, you would think that it is just a nice old city with a peculiar variety of cultures and religions.
No beautiful pictures to be taken here, just enough to witness what happened and what is probably happening right now in many places in the world that we do not hear about in the mass media.
Who is wrong and who is right I guess is a matter of opinion. This land and its people is a chess service controlled by few.


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