Mostar

We took a day-trip from Dubrovnik to Mostar, Bosnia. We had our own private driver who took us there and back. To get to Mostar we had to leave Croatia, enter Neum, Bosnia then leave Bosnia, re-enter Croatia and then enter Bosnia again. Our passports got stamped each time.

From the Bosnian border to Mostar you could see all the war damage everywhere. There were holes in buildings from the bombs and shells. It was a little odd to see that not much had been repaired in the 15 years since the war ended.

Our driver let us off near the Old Town of Mostar and we walked around ourselves. Unlike, in Dubrovnik where the Old Town was easy to move the wheelchair, Mostar was very hard. I was struggling a lot until four local guys came and picked up and carried the chair to the Mostar bridge. The old bridge was destroyed during the war, but was completely rebuilt. I took some pictures of it, but we didn’t cross as it was a little too difficult.

I was surprised at how friendly and helpful the people in Mostar were and also how many spoke good English. I found a restaurant and they helped us down the stairs. We had a traditional Bosnian meal for two which was very good. After lunch we started walking back to the driver when we met some nice and friendly people at a souvenir store.

I was impressed by the Bosnian people and food, but don’t think I would want to spend longer than a day there (if nothing else than because it was hard to move the chair around the city,) We returned to Dubrovnik that night and had to go through all the passport controls as we did on the way there.