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Bosnia and Herzegovina gave us a new appreciation of burek and the importance of bridges to
Bosnian history. We became happily trapped in Sarajevo by Amin’s hospitality and traded cycling kilometres for watching movies at the film festival, meeting his friends, and hanging out in the Gir bike store “reading” German cycling magazines. Here are some facts and figures from our time in Bosnia:
- 397 km cycled (longest day 91 km, shortest day 12 km). Bike computers seem to have developed a few glitches so figures don’t quite add up anymore
- 3 nights in campsites, 1 night free camping, 7 nights with roof over head (in Amin’s spare room)
- 18 pieces of Bosnian pie (Burek) consumed
- 7 days off the bikes in Sarajevo (biggest city break to date!)
- 2 days we cycled in 30 degree plus temperatures
- 2 film festival movies watched
- 1 English word taught – “Hospitable”
- 1 major computer melt down (fixed in five hours)
- 1 punctured inner tube with slow leak not fixed before we left Bosnia (Justin’s bike)
Justin will remember: Watching the sunset from a balcony in Sarajevo with an Aussie BBQ smoking in the background and listening to Salmonella Dub.
Emma’s best moment: Realising we would be in Sarajevo for some of the film festival.
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First Nights In Bosnia
Reading about Bosnia we saw that campsites were few and far between and that wild camping was potentially dangerous due to the risk of landmines. To date we had camped around 70% of the time across Europe and we weren’t too keen to change our plans (and budget) to encompass hotels or something similar. – Posted by Justin
Sarajevo Stole Our Hearts
We didn’t even know we were going to Sarajevo until we started looking over maps in Croatia and a route through Bosnia and Serbia stood out as the path for us. As we cycled the last 15 kilometres from our Camp Oaza in Ilidza to the city, we planned to stay in Sarajevo for a maximum of three days before heading for the Serbian border. – Posted by Emma
Day Of Food – Bosnia
We captured our final full day of food in Bosnia which for a change didn’t include any bosnian pie. We had final breakfast with Amin in Sarajevo, met two cyclists on their way from Tibet to France after lunch and found a free camp spot for our final night in the country where just for a change, it started to rain as we cooked dinner. – Posted by Justin
Spain By Numbers
We had 34 days in Spain and we can’t yet say that it was the best country we’ll see on this trip, but it sure beats our rainy exit from the UK. Spain, we’ll miss your chocolate filled croissants, hospitable people and wonderful tarmac (most of the time). – Posted by Emma + Justin
Italy By Numbers
We’ve always loved Italian food, and while we had some substandard focaccia and gelato in Italy, overall the cuisine lived up to our expectations (oh and the scenery was spectacular as well). We left food heaven with more insect bites than we arrived with, possibly more weight (see gelato figures below) plus fantastic memories of the roads we travelled and the people who stopped to talk to us in every small town we passed. Here are some facts and figures from our time in Italy. – Posted by Emma
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