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Bosnia: Expectations

Saturday, September 24th, 2005

When Bec and I were back in Rome, we shared a short bus ride with a couple who lived just near my home town of Ballarat, back in Australia. We got to chatting, as you do when you come across other travellers from your home turf (and as an Aussie, this happens endlessy. We’re bloody everywhere), about where we’d been and where we’d recommend. During this rather one-sided conversation (uh, we’ve been to Rome, that’s it. Sorry), they recommended going to Sarajevo, and even suggested a hostel that they rated pretty highly.

With no real itinerary, and no schedule to keep to, we thought stuff it, lets go to Bosnia. And so at 7.30am on the morning of the 17th of September, we were at the bus station in Dubrovnik, about to get onto a bus heading to a country that we knew absolutely nothing about. I’m serious here, absolutely nothing. We didn’t know what language they spoke or what currency they used. A can of coke might have cost 1 thingy, or 1000 thingies, who knew? And with no guidebook, we didn’t even know how to find this out.

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