That’s right, you read correctly. Bosnia-Herzegovina, that country of 3 million people in Europe, does not exist. Period. Well, according to Citroën at least.
(www.24ur.com)
This map appeared on a new promotional campaign for the French car manufacturer Citroën. As you can plainly see, Bosnia has been swallowed up by Croatia and Serbia. Slovenia is suspiciously larger, [...]
Photo by Violentz
According to a report (in Serbian) by the Union of Economists of Serbia, Belgrade is the cheapest capital city in the region when it comes to the price of food. The researchers recorded the prices of 28 different food products, such as bananas, yogurt, bread, apple juice, beer, flour, potatoes, chicken and toothpaste, [...]
I had MTV Adria (MTV broadcast in the former Yugoslav countries in the Slovene and Serbian languages) on in the background the other day while I was doing some work. Something caught my ears and I looked up and saw an advert for a show called MTV Cribs. Maybe some of you know what the [...]
Sorry Bijeljina, but you won’t be taking over Belgrade as my most favourite place in the world. No offence, but Pancevo (a small town north of Belgrade, with extremely high levels of air pollution and cancer) and Valjevo are far more exciting than the tenth largest city in Bosnia-Herzegovina. V and I spent four hours [...]
Tomorrow, I’m off to Bijeljina, which is just over the border in Bosnia-Herzegovina. I’m not quite sure what to expect from this town of 65,000 people. It is located within the Republika Srpska entity of Bosnia, so I’m presuming it’s probably not that much different from what I’m used to seeing in Serbia itself. A [...]
Photo by Chipps. Licence
This blog post at Belgrade 2.0 about Michael Palin’s new travel series ‘New Europe’ reminded me of the first episode of the series, which I’ve been watching long before I began this blog. For those of you who don’t know, Michael Palin has been travelling around the countries formerly behind the Iron [...]
