Mostar

Overlooking Mostar

Scoped out a few mountain bike tracks the night before and we thought we'd drive up this mountain overlooking the town and while I went for a ride the kids and Nicki would go for a walk.  

Drove up through a maze of streets before eventually finding the right road up.  Amazing views of Mostar and the surrounding hills as we ascended the mountain.  

Stopped along the way at some old Austro-Hungarian fort for a walk around and then went further on and parked the car where the road ended and the track began.

Said goodbye to the kids and headed up the rocky trail hopefully to see them again in an hour or so.  Rode up some mad rocky 4WD track and topped out on a plateau overlooking the lower hills which was good as I was feeling the pain in my unfit legs.

On the way down I said hello to a local bloke who turned out to be a professor at the University in town.  Chatted to him for a while and he invited us in and showed us around his weekender which he was very proud of.  

Me and Dr Fuad.

As we left he went upstairs and came down with a book on the destruction of Mostar that he had co-authored and gave it to us.  

In it was a picture of his apartment block which had been shot up.  (And by shot up we're talking 50-75mm crater holes in the wall not little dings from a .22 bullet.)  He seemed fairly melancholic about the whole thing which is probably fair enough.

Half way up the mountain.
Kangoo in the distance - Photo from fort.

Rode down the mountain while Nicki followed me until the road got a bit how-you-going and I mounted the bike on the car and took over the driving.




Had dinner at a Bosnian restaurant which was very nice.  Drinks and dinner for about €40.00.