Balkan backpack

Down the beautiful Dalmatian coast, Illyrian, Greek, Roman, Slav, Croatian, bit of Venice and Austria-Hungary and even Napoleon. But who wouldn't want to live here? The sunken mountain range gives those gorgeous islands, the barren mountains stripped for Venice's ships and buildings - magnificent and bare, like the mountains around Palermo. Over the border to Bosnia, leaving the EU and (partly) the Roman alphabet..lights in the valley of Mostar, naked brown hills and the bluest water, a town in two, mosques against churches and all the symbolism of that connecting bridge, built, destroyed, rebuilt..signs and souvenirs of war are not farRead more