frowny baby

I had a wonderful holiday.  Emma and I loved wondering around the streets and alleyways of the Balkans and I have MANY photos to sort through.  I’ll be posting them on Cloudydaze soon, along with my notes from the places we visited (yes, I actually wrote in the notebook this time).  But as a quick summary….Budapest was surprising, Osijek was lovely yet sobering, Sarajevo was chaotic and fascinating, Mostar was beautiful and even more sobering, and Dubrovnik was downright gorgeous….but everyone else in the known universive also seemed to think so….and be there.

So where next?  Well, I still haven’t made it to Albania, or Romania, or Slovenia, or Bulgaria, or Ukraine….

We live in an endlessly fascinating continent don’t we?

This is where I’m off to on Saturday.  My lovely friend Em and I are flying into Budapest, then travelling down to Osijek in Croatia to spend a few days exploring the town where Em’s grandpa was born.  Then it’s on to Sarajevo and Mostar, before ending our trip in Dubrovnik - somewhere I’ve wanted to see since before the Balkan war.

I’m so excited.  Time to dust off the guide books, open up the Thomas Cook train timetable, and figure out how to say “two tickets to….” in Hungarian, Croatian and Bosnian.

Can’t wait.