Just when you think it couldn't get worse…..it does. I don't think we need another entity. I think we need a large barbed wire fence and a new name for Bosnia and Herzegovina. We are taking new names and nominations from anyone who cares to vent. I vote for Veliki Jagomir.
Now I really need your help. So please, any of you from this part of the world feel free to tell me if I'm craZy or I simply just don't get how things go here. Quite some time ago a guy rammed his car into mine causing about 400 KM worth of damage. Apparently he…
Forest Day. Down Syndrome Day. Water Day. We have all these ‘international days of something’ all the time. I find it rather bizarre. Does anyone else find this human habit to be slightly ignorant? I fully understand and appreciate the need to raise awareness and bring attention to many social issues. I am also well…
Although some of my guide book readers have criticized me for being blinded by my love and admiration for the luda land called Bosnia and Herzegovina – I always felt i was able to be objective enough for my words and sentiment to be accurate. After the research report by the World Economic Forum placed…
There are three options here. Either they read my mind. Read my blog. Or simply decided the eye sore in our back garden was even too much for them. The garden, nonetheless, is a spotless oasis. There is not even a single leaf out of place. It has restored, even if just slightly, the hope…
I feel as if I've been rude. I still really don't have much of a clue who reads this and why….but nonetheless I enjoy your company. So….good morning to you good people. Sabina poignantly reminded me that when we were stateside for our extended holiday that I didn't write a word. Upon return to BiH…
I wish I had a photo of the hydroelectric dam on the Zeljeznica River near Trnovo. Then I wouldn't need to write a word. The old cliche that a picture is worth a thousand words would certainly hold true on this occasion. But being that I don't have a picture – here are my words….
Below us in our flat in Dobrinje live two doctors and their daughters. They all seem to be nice enough people. For some reason their career choice and assumed level of eduction led me to expect certain things. Prejudice on my part? Absolutely. So the winter snows have quickly disappeared in the last few days….
There should be no doubt that many people here will disagree about many things for a long time to come. It's in our DNA code to disagree. But if we are going to disagree….this seems like some of the most civilized exchanges I've experienced in a great long while. This article was also published on…
I went to DM yesterday to get a few things. Sabina was with me, milling through the baby food section to see if some new yummy organic treats had hit the shelves. They hadn't. But that's beside the point. When we went to pay the very courteous cashier tried to give us a rose. I…