Siroki Brijeg

It was supposed to be a 55 km day, but I took some detours and it ended up being just over 80 km. A bit of extra vertical as well.

I'm definitely paying the price for yesterday's heroic effort. The legs are heavy.

Visited a waterfall in solitude early in the morning, it was quite wonderful.

The Ljubinksi authorities are doing an amazing job building infrastructure for tourism. The "Roman" museum is small but really well done with artifacts spanning from 16,000 years ago to the Roman period and some from 1400 making that date feel pretty new.

The Castle is being rebuilt in the old way. The case could be made that the old ruins would be more original, but over the centuries castles have been rebuilt many times so why not now?

A brand new cathedral was built also with the old technology of stone stacking. As I came by the bells tolled for a wedding.

My host has done the Camino this Santiago. We had a lot to talk about with limited language in common. He is doing Lisbon to Santiago this fall on his bicycle.Read more