Playing by the rules

The Bosnia guide book instructs that we must register with the police via our accommodation before we leave. Our first camp site was in retrospect not legal . So the next night we stayed in “the” town hotel to be sure. But they too were not interested in registration. So we tried the local police, who passed Alice around 3 offices and then sent her on a mission to pay the required tax at the post office (which would not take a card but luckily accepted some euros). Then back to the police who said we could come back in 2 hours :-( but luckily reduced this to a more practical 20 mins. Meanwhile Alain was dispatched to spend the bosnian marks that Alice acquired as change…

The chances are that all this effort was for nothing … versus the possibility of a heavy fine (it does happen). Alain would never have noticed there was something to do. Alice did not expect it to be quite so complicated and wishes she hadn’t tried. All part of the adventure and part of our different approaches and skills.Read more