It’s hard to believe I’ve been at this blogging gig for two years now. Having just re-upped concrete and kitsch’s Bluehost account for another year of blogging indentured servitude, I was filtering through old…
Our day had started much like a typical one on the road for us. We had woken early (it happened to be New Year’s Day) in Mostar, done a bit of perfunctory sightseeing, and…
I have to be honest with this one. I did no work to plan what we’d see and not see while in Herzegovina. The Bosnian portion of our Serbia/Bosnia trip in this past December…
I have let my feelings known regarding off season travel (I love it), and nowhere has reinforced my opinion of this more than Mostar, Herzegovina. Walking through Mostar’s Stari Grad, it’s clear why the…
David and I are avid runners. Not at the moment, but I’ll get to that soon enough. Before our trip to Serbia and Bosnia over New Years, we were running around 40 miles a…
The places that David and I frequent when we travel generally fall into two categories. The first of places we’ve seen, researched, geeked out over, and fallen into rabbit holes about for months (or…
Belgrade, Serbia is one of those places I was destined to fall in love with. Everything I knew about it spoke to me on an almost primal level. It’s home to pristine examples of…
The Eastern Bloc is great for folks interested in urban exploration (see also here and here). As luck would have it (luck may be a bad word for it), the combination of poor economic…
I think it’s common knowledge that the quickest and easiest way to get to know a place is with someone who lives there and knows its ins and outs. It cuts down on the…
Hello, hello, hello! Things have been quiet as of late for a couple of reasons (maybe probably most likely because I’ve been working 55 hour weeks, but no matter!), the most prominent being that I’ve…