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Here are a few recent posts you may have missed.

Molunat, Croatia

We'd dropped our friends off at the airport in Dubrovnik for their 8 am flight. It had just gone 6 am, and we weren't flying until 2. We dithered about one last swim - but could we face a flight with salty skin and wet togs? We decided to hedge our bets and head to the fishing village of Molunat, …

A calm coastal bay at sunset, with small fishing boats anchored in the water and houses scattered along the wooded hillsides.

Kravice Waterfalls, Zvirići, Bosnia & Herzegovina

“Close view of a cascading section of Kravica Falls, with clear water flowing over moss-covered tufa rocks and dense green vegetation.”

I'll hold up my hand and admit it: the billboard advertising worked. On the road over from Dubrovnik to Medjugorje, we passed billboard after billboard advertising Kravice waterfalls. A little bit of Googling told us that we could pass pretty close on our way back. We were on holiday. We had time. It went on the list. On the road …

Mostar, Bosnia & Herzegovina

Wrong bridge. Wrong river. But we went there anyway. We had thought, for some odd reason, that the bridge in Mostar was the one Ivo Andrić wrote about in The Bridge on the Drina. But that was the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, not the Stari Most over the Neretva River in Mostar. Still, we went. And it was …

Panoramic view of Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the historic Old Bridge spanning the Neretva River and mountains in the background.

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