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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 !
Et bien, ça donne envie d'y aller !
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