The old houses on the river at Mostar
Kelly in Aladins cave, Mostar
The old mosque at Mostar

The view from the train from Sarajevo to Mostar
The Beautiful Kelly and the almost as beautiful Mostar bridge
Again the Stari Most Bridge in ickle Mostar

Heya! Greetings from Dubrovnic, Croatia! The old walled town here is as Byron put it the 'pearl of the Adriatic ', I don't really disagree with him except it is raining today so I will reserve judgement until tomorrow. No actually it is lovely and we just had some yummy pizza, itialien food is good here, in fact you could mistake this place for italy if it wasn't so much cheaper! We lucked out with accomidation too, we took an old lady at the bus station at her word and it turned out to be a good thing too! We got hooked up with a house at the lowest pice the lonely planet suggested paying and it is the best we have stayed in so far, very clean and with a wonderful view of the bay and a balacony to take the view in from. Anyways, we came from Mostar in Bosnia. That town was soso. We went to see the bridge, a sort of symbol of Bosnia as the Eifel tower is a symbol of France and it was nice but that was about it. Maybe I am being harsh, compairing it to Sarajevo and Dubrovnik not to mention Prague and Budapest, but it did seem a little dreary and lacking some vistality. That said we did pass a most enjoyable afternoon smoking hooka in a cave. Yep a big and very real cave. It was called Aladins cave and was decked out accordingly. We were lucky getting the bus to Dubrov today. It arrived late and at a different stance so we were towards the back of the 'que' (crush). However we popped around the side as I thought we might put our bags in first but it soon was apparent that not everyone was getting on the bus as it was already mostly full! Only about 5/6 of the 15+ people waiting get on did get on despite everyone having a ticket for that bus and time. We used our flanking position and Kelly deftly pressed our tickets into the drivers hands and we were on, almost. Kelly went in to grab two seats while I waited with the bags, but the driver was loading from the other side, I realised when I heard the slam of the cargo doors, I nipped around and had a job convincing the driver he has already taken my ticket and I was not just one of the many trying to protest and get on board! But I did and we safely got to Drubrovnik. Phew! Oh yes, also Mostar showed much more signs of conflict than Sarajevo, there is a whole street which is mostlz comprised of bullet ridden and derelict buildings. I hear it straddles the divide between the mostly Muslim and mostly Croat (catholic) sides of town, those are they who faught each other. It was quite depressing and also ran paralel to the main touristy street, the restored old centre of town. Even beautiful Dubrovnik here did not escape the winds of war, although did not suffer as much. The Iconic Mostar Bridge (Stari Most - petrified moon) was actually destroyed during the conflict (in 1993) and the current bridge is a reconstruction. Well anyway there you go, hopefully tomorrow is glorious sunshine so we can take some pretty pic of the old town and perhaps even chill out on the beach!

Ciao!