Monday 18th April 2011
It’s been a long day today with over 11 and a half hours of travel which included 2 trains, 2 flights, 2 taxi’s and a crazy but spectacular bus journey!
It was an early start this morning as I had to get a 5.52am train to London before getting another train to Gatwick airport to meet up with Dave Hodgetts for the flight to Bosnia. Our first flight was to Ljubljana on a pencil like plane and it was amazing that the plane stayed in one piece when we landed as the pilot hit the ground with such a force that half the passengers came out of their seats! We only had a 30 minute wait before the next flight to Sarajevo which was much smoother and had some amazing views over the snow covered mountains:
Once we got to Sarajevo we were straight into a taxi to the bus station where we caught a bus for the 2 and a half journey to Mostar. I’d read that the journey was one of the best in Europe and it didn’t let us down as we wound through the mountains and around glacial lakes. The driver didn’t hang around though and some of his overtaking manoeuvres were a little hair-raising to say the least!!
Amazing views driving through the mountains
Once we got to Mostar we quickly found our hotel and then had a walk to the club where we had our dinner. We’ve been told the town was on the front line of the war back in 1995 and you can still see numerous buildings with hundreds of bullet holes in them. I’m looking forward to learning a bit about the town this week so I’ll give you an update as I learn a bit more about it.
We’ve got two tennis sessions booked in tomorrow and sign-in is at 6pm – I’ll let you know how it went and who Dave’s got in the draw tomorrow evening.
