Sophistivacation

It’s time to explore outside of Sarajevo, and see what else this beautiful country has to offer. Herzegovina is the southern and the smaller of two main geographical regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Its largest city is Mostar which is one of our stops today. Tarik picked us up at 8am, I only had a small breakfast as I’m not the best passenger in a car. We didn’t quite realise we would be the only ones on the tour, but at least that meant it was all on our terms. Our first stop on the tour was Konjic, one of the oldest permanent settlements in Bosnia and Herzegovina, dating back 4000 years. Tarik told us a legend about this place. A long time ago there was a traveller looking for some food, water and accommodation for the evening, he asked everyone in the town but no-one wanted to help him. The man knocked at the last house and and old widow and child appeared at the door; she let him him, fed him and he had a bed for the night. The next morning, the traveller told her to take her hor...

It’s a day of tours, from a war tour to a walking tour, and a food tour! But first breakfast! I normally skip over breakfast, but this one seems to have the oddest combination of foods. There was cereal, egg, sausage as well as garlic bread, focaccia, tins of fish, baklava, a fresh press orange machine and 4 different coffee machines; Iain was in his element. After breakfast, we went back upstairs to get ready for our first tour of the day. We were just getting organised when the phone rang and reception said our guide was there, 20 minutes early. Iain went down ahead of me, but the guide was really apologetic and thankfully no-one else was waiting for us. Amir was our guide (a veteran of the war) and ordered us into the front seats beside him, it was a minibus so we were unsure if anyone else was coming along or not. Apparently we had a few more people to pick up, but he started telling us stories and point out things as we went anyway. Apart from war stories, he also told us that he ...