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Feedback from the 18th to the 26 of July 2011
Ok, it's time to speak about Bosnia (Bosna in Bosnian)! Big piece !
let's speak about feeling...
I crossed the border at the end of the afternoun, finally cold wind, green, and hills. (Did I told you that the weather was incredibly to hot since the Germany ?)
Turn off the Air Conditionned, open the window. freedom...
The smell of Bosnia. smell of forest and wood smoke. And thousand of other things impossible to describe for us pour animal without nose !
As soon as I arrive, I find Bosnia nice. Wind, hills, forest... look quiet, nice light. I needed it for my arrival. Villages, farmers... and a looooooot of abandonned houses. Or building houses but never finished (most of them whithout fassade). Or partialy broked... Mostly close to the border.
I spent the next day sleeping and making nothing in Zenica,to Azra's home, during her tesis presentation in Sarajevo.
After That, Azra take care about me to make me anderstand what is the Bosnian hospitality, the host is like a king, it's really important, no way for me to help, no way to avoid it. ;)
So we go to Sarajevo, we return to Zenica, I visite both, meet Azra's friend, we go to the restaurant, cafe and pub, to the family in Bresa, drink many (Turkish) coffe, have a lot of interessant discution (in english, yes yes), we go to see a beautiful castel in a nice town (Travic), eat fishes, Cevape (sort of little typic sausages) and true Burek, and also Baklava and a lot of good things (but to many meat for me... :-P) I go alone to visit Mostar in Herzegovina (Hercegovina) and the famous bridge ("most" means bridge) very tourristic place, we see a movie in the Sarajevo Film Festival (Habemum Papam, We have a Pope) thanks to Azra's relationship, I see the Piramid of Bosnia (google it)...
During this journey I tried to anderstand what's happened here, to anderstand what is Bosnia now.
Bosnia is beautiful, but sometime it's hard to see. 15 year after her end, you can stil feel the war : bullets' holes (or somthing bigger) on the buildings or the ground, lot of ruins, big cimetery, poverty, low infrastructure developpement, politics problems...
You can see every thing in my pictures, exept picture about the war that I chose not to take.
I really enjoyed my journey here, this nice countrie, discovering this culture, how kind the people here are, I enjoyed my time with Gospadze Azra who was a perfect hostresse ;)
Thank you very much Azra for all the time you spend for me, your hopsitality, your presents and your help !
vendredi 26 août 2011
Photos et jupette !
Petite update des mes albums photos qui restent visible ici
J'en profite pour vous montrer ma jupe sarouelle que personne n'avais vue finie ! (ok elle est pas jolie jolie dans tous les modes, mais elle est actuellement en cours de transformation, encore)
Par contre mon Picasa est plein, si quelqu'un a une solution, une proposition ? J'ai pas pu mettre toutes mes photos de Bosnie. Et il y a encore la Turquie et le Liban... !
J'en profite pour vous montrer ma jupe sarouelle que personne n'avais vue finie ! (ok elle est pas jolie jolie dans tous les modes, mais elle est actuellement en cours de transformation, encore)
Par contre mon Picasa est plein, si quelqu'un a une solution, une proposition ? J'ai pas pu mettre toutes mes photos de Bosnie. Et il y a encore la Turquie et le Liban... !
lundi 22 août 2011
#5 Lubljana to Zenica
I left Lubljana monday morning the 18th of july.
I traveled with a truck since the border, where the driver make me anderstand that he had to wait almost 2 hours. So I crossed the border on food, and my next driver was Bosnian, and propose me to drive me until Bodoj (pronounce 'bodoy'), this way I avoid Zagreb, crossed my second border (on the same day !) and came earlier to Azra's place : Zenica. (taking a bus between Bodoj and Zenica)
The Slovenia look very green and nice, with mountains, forets, small villages... But the part of coatia that I saw looks really different, flare, dry, arride...
J'ai quitte Lubljana Lundi 18 juillet au matin.
Pas de probleme pour le stop, un camion m'amene jusqu'a la frontiere entre la Slovenie et la Croatie, et le chauffeur, un vieux sympatique mais qui ne parlais que Serbo-Croate, me fait comprendre qu'il doit attendre au moins 2h. Donc je traverse ma premiere vraie frontiere (quitter l'Europe) a pieds !
Mon second chauffeur est Bosnien et me propose de m'amener jusqu'a Bodoj (on prononce Bodoye). Ainsi je me retrouve a eviter Zagreb, traverser ma seconde frontiere (le meme jour !) et arriver plus tot chez Azra, a Zenica (que j'ai rejoint en bus pour eviter de stopper la nuit).
J'ai beaucoup aime la Slovenie qui m'est apparu tres verte, vallonee, avec des forets et des petits villages. En revanche la partie de Croatie que j'ai traverse etait sec, arride et tout plat...
I traveled with a truck since the border, where the driver make me anderstand that he had to wait almost 2 hours. So I crossed the border on food, and my next driver was Bosnian, and propose me to drive me until Bodoj (pronounce 'bodoy'), this way I avoid Zagreb, crossed my second border (on the same day !) and came earlier to Azra's place : Zenica. (taking a bus between Bodoj and Zenica)
The Slovenia look very green and nice, with mountains, forets, small villages... But the part of coatia that I saw looks really different, flare, dry, arride...
J'ai quitte Lubljana Lundi 18 juillet au matin.
Pas de probleme pour le stop, un camion m'amene jusqu'a la frontiere entre la Slovenie et la Croatie, et le chauffeur, un vieux sympatique mais qui ne parlais que Serbo-Croate, me fait comprendre qu'il doit attendre au moins 2h. Donc je traverse ma premiere vraie frontiere (quitter l'Europe) a pieds !
Mon second chauffeur est Bosnien et me propose de m'amener jusqu'a Bodoj (on prononce Bodoye). Ainsi je me retrouve a eviter Zagreb, traverser ma seconde frontiere (le meme jour !) et arriver plus tot chez Azra, a Zenica (que j'ai rejoint en bus pour eviter de stopper la nuit).
J'ai beaucoup aime la Slovenie qui m'est apparu tres verte, vallonee, avec des forets et des petits villages. En revanche la partie de Croatie que j'ai traverse etait sec, arride et tout plat...
jeudi 4 août 2011
green Ljubljana, nice city, bonnes rencontres
article en français un peu plus bas
Saturday 16th July 2011.
When I arrive in Ljubljana, around 19:00 I'm totally dead. The weather is really to hot and I need to sleep. The truck in witch I was let me somewhere on the suburb'. I just take the fırst bus that I see and can not move anymore. So I wait to be in a big and central station to get out and loke after the Traın station where it seems better to fınd a tourrisme information center open so late.
I arrive in this random hostel, where the friendly hostesse explain me that the only free room is not finished. There is 3 mastress on the ground, but we paye a cheaper price and have a new batheroom. That's great. I let my bag there and get out to see the city, hopping that my flatemate will be nice.
Actually they are. I meet them when I return, 2 girls from Norway : Stina and Mina who offer me a glas of wıne and to contınue the evenıng wıth them. In the receptıon, we saw a message : Party ın the courtyard tonıght, joın us ! We meet there to crazy guys from Danemark, Jens and Nıco. There where also a Macedonıan guy wıth hıs gırlfrıend from Slovakıa (sorry I forgot the name now...).
Then we get out in Lubljana, and finally found the place to be : the alternative area.
Next morning I change for an other room, and become Flatmate from Jens, Nico and the Macedonian boy and his Slovakian girlfriend ! Happy.
I spend the days visiting alone the city, the castle (that I really enjoyed) and architecture visits. Then we went to the cinema to see the last Harry Potter and make an other courtyard party where I met our neighbors Belgians and Irish guy really really sympathetic (guys I forgot your names, but if you see this, let me a message) traveling together with bicycle !
Saturday 16th July 2011.
When I arrive in Ljubljana, around 19:00 I'm totally dead. The weather is really to hot and I need to sleep. The truck in witch I was let me somewhere on the suburb'. I just take the fırst bus that I see and can not move anymore. So I wait to be in a big and central station to get out and loke after the Traın station where it seems better to fınd a tourrisme information center open so late.
I arrive in this random hostel, where the friendly hostesse explain me that the only free room is not finished. There is 3 mastress on the ground, but we paye a cheaper price and have a new batheroom. That's great. I let my bag there and get out to see the city, hopping that my flatemate will be nice.
Actually they are. I meet them when I return, 2 girls from Norway : Stina and Mina who offer me a glas of wıne and to contınue the evenıng wıth them. In the receptıon, we saw a message : Party ın the courtyard tonıght, joın us ! We meet there to crazy guys from Danemark, Jens and Nıco. There where also a Macedonıan guy wıth hıs gırlfrıend from Slovakıa (sorry I forgot the name now...).
Then we get out in Lubljana, and finally found the place to be : the alternative area.
Next morning I change for an other room, and become Flatmate from Jens, Nico and the Macedonian boy and his Slovakian girlfriend ! Happy.
I spend the days visiting alone the city, the castle (that I really enjoyed) and architecture visits. Then we went to the cinema to see the last Harry Potter and make an other courtyard party where I met our neighbors Belgians and Irish guy really really sympathetic (guys I forgot your names, but if you see this, let me a message) traveling together with bicycle !
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