This summer we wanted to make a new piece of our tour of Europe, map the map the roads of south ... We left Budapest and Dubrovnik have cycled up to finish the feet into the sea ..
Our route to first take the Eurovelo 6 along the Danube, where we left off in November 2009. We then turned south toward the inner Croatia. Then, entering into Bosnia, we saw the topography rise suddenly and sweated blood and water through the mountains to reach Sarajevo.
The capital, sadly emblematic, is steeped in history, and tourists. The cross gives the impression of being both a place full of meaning in the sense of mystery to the geopolitical and psychological sense. Glaciers and fast food are legion. Groups, straight out of an airconditioned, stormed the streets to "Latin Bridge", where the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne was assassinated in 1914, with consequences we know. The facades are still today, after 17 years of peace, gnawed by shrapnel or loosely sealed. At the same time these same buildings are flowering balconies and heavy son of fresh linen.
Outside the city, the Bosnian countryside is dapper, quiet, dense population. The risk of stepping on a mine requires us not to get away from the road and off the beaten path, avoiding the edges of rivers, the woods ... The people we meet are unquestionably the most adorable that we have crossed.
We are far from poverty and destitution that can assist in Sofia for example, or in Paris. The postwar years have certainly seen a lot of much more urgent problems to deal with the modernization of transport for example. The space-time is not the same here without TGV, without highway without credit card machine in stores, without, without, without ... But with good eateries, lush vegetable gardens, kids everywhere, cars honking merrily waste in every sense.
The second part of the trip is mediterranean. The mountains between Sarajevo and Mostar, the forest becomes increasingly dry until it forms a kind of scrub. This progession us good. We have the feeling of "coming to the sea." We will be rewarding our slow climbs. But also fears in raids at 10%, over miles of endless road with potholes with traffic and incessant honking truck, backfiring, work ...
Mostar is sublime and moving. Tourism. The river with its color turquoise makes us dream. The water is cold but Badeaux tempers because I was burning. The current is so strong that the atmosphere at the water's edge is pretty funny, everyone tries to fight him in vain loads!
0 comments:
Post a Comment