Balkan Road Trip

Last week was for me a return to sources: the Balkans!
I took a road trip with a friend, from Ljubljana in Slovenia, to Dubrovnik in Croatia, passing by Mostar and the south of Bosnia.
To my big surprise, Ljubljana is not as bad as what I thought before. I had the image of a cold and old fashioned city, based on the Austrian model (sorry Werner if you ever read this) but in fact it's beautiful, cosmopolitan, living, with modern places, modern people.
Croatia is cool, but not the Germans who are packing the roads with their huge caravans, and packing the beaches, bars and restaurants with their ugly red faces, their awful beer, awful food and awful mannors. In the region between Split and Dubrovnik, there's also a lot of Czech people, I don't know why so many of them go there, maybe some kind of agreement between them, maybe Czech Republic gives a lot of free Czechian beer, the Pilsner, to Croatia, and in exchange, Czech people use the Croatian motorways for free...
The best part of the trip was Bosnia, which is really impressive. 15 years after the end of the war, you still feel it close, and feel to country ready to explode again at any second. In the South, many Christian Croatians live in separate villages, which are a lote richer then the Bosnian parts, and they put big Christian crosses on the surrounding hills, build many huge churches, and they put the Croatian flag everywhere, and also nationalist and racist slogans towards muslim Bosnians.
In muslim villages, everything is still destroyed, a lot of empty houses, with bullet and fight impacts, put on fire, very sad, very moving, it's like many ghosts are still living there.
Mostar is crazy too, on one hill, muslim part, with the old town, the famous bridge, with a lot of Japanese tourists on it; on the other hill, christian part, with huge cross, many churches, everything rebuilt, and in the middle, the modern city, with destroyed houses, sadness, emptyness.. You almost feel like crying when entering there!
After feeling so moved in Mostar, I went back to Croatia, and needed something to confort myself... and i found... Pop-keks!! Yes!!! I bought ten of them, and made it try to my friend, who liked it, but as some will say, not such a big deal ;-)
And then, beach day, with with with.. the pink doughnut!!! amazing, a l'abordage and all that stuff! I thought a lot about you great people, and the trip on the Black sea for sure, and I thought that I miss all that and I miss you!

A few pictures:

Rab Island:
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The Pink Doughut:
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Sunset in Makarska, or the 2nd Czech Republic
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Pop-Kek
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Mostar
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