Prestwick's fun in the Balkans!

[Prestwick]

HAY GUYZ :lol:

As you may (or may not) have known, I went to the Balkans on holiday a couple of weeks ago and spent most of the time in a calm, introspective and passive state, espousing peaceful co-existence in the face of harsh and divisive tactics from the likes of the IRB and sneaky newspapers.

I also took allot of photos! Observe:

 

[Fa'atau82]

I see sun. I see no grey clouds. I see no litter. I see some daniel bedingfield lookalike. I see no hooligan. I see no dog poo. I see coca cola, hence civiliation. I see my application to live there!

 

[Prestwick]

It truly is a beautiful country. Some of those street shots were of Ljubijana in Slovenia though Sarajevo was just as awesome. Every was nice and welcoming, the bosnian coffee was superb and Cevapi even better.

I could live there, I definitely could.

 

[alexrugby]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Fa'atau82 @ Oct 6 2008, 03:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

I see sun. I see no grey clouds. I see no litter. I see some daniel bedingfield lookalike. I see no hooligan. I see no dog poo. I see coca cola, hence civiliation. I see my application to live there![/b]

Sure! Amazing country and amazing shots

Pretty nice places and again the fact telling: War is ****!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Sir Speedy]

The second shot seems to do the place justice. It looks beautiful.

 

[BLR]

Nice one, I like you're not doing the customary 'Look at me stand in front of some landmark'. I refuse to do that on my current trip, ******* other tourists.

And what are you doing on the train tracks, didn't your parents ever teach you that's dangerous?

 

[Prestwick]

In Bosnia, theres a train in the morning, a train in the evening and maybe a train or two in between. Other than that, its deserted and for some strange reason, station staff say nothing to people crossing train tracks. Totally weird standing there with nobody batting an eyelid but whenn I turned around to see an old lady of perhaps 80 hobbling across the tracks to get from her house to the coach station on the other side...heh.

 

[alexrugby]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Prestwick @ Oct 6 2008, 11:21 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

In Bosnia, theres a train in the morning, a train in the evening and maybe a train or two in between. Other than that, its deserted and for some strange reason, station staff say nothing to people crossing train tracks. Totally weird standing there with nobody batting an eyelid but whenn I turned around to see an old lady of perhaps 80 hobbling across the tracks to get from her house to the coach station on the other side...heh.[/b]

Grandmas are always extremals :lol: :lol: :lol:

She glanced at you, making shy steps over rails and said: "hm! young, lets' look at me and learn, you rookie" :lol: :lol: :lol:

NIce you are full and all right

 

[Fa'atau82]

Slovenija is nice i hear. Unspoilt. The next undiscovered tourist destination. In fact, Ljubljana should be renamed Lublyjublyjana.

 

[Haysie]

Nice photos mate, looks like money well spent
What's the go with the last photo? Was there any history behind that building or were a lot of them like that?

 

[Prestwick]

That was part of Sarajevo near the infamous "sniper alley" (the strip of land between the city center and the UN controlled airport where the Serbian and Bosnian lines met) in a leafy suburb next to the river filled with gorgeous buildings from the Austro-Hungarian era. Half of them were gutted during the seige and the ones that survived are riddled with bullet and shrapnel marks.

Some of the buildings are being restored while others are being intentionally left as they are as reminders of the past.

Slovenia generally was very nice. Ljubijana is nice and sedate and doesn't suffer from the chronic British & Irish stag parties that are on the rampage in Prague and Bratislava right now. When I was there, they were trying to break the Guinness world record for "largest cevapi" (basically a cross between a sausage and a kebab) which involved packing what looked like a large metal tombola on a pig-roasting rig full of sausage meat. When they had done this and sealed it shut with hammers and what not, they realised that the single wheelchair motor would not be able to turn a container holding 40KG of meat and what happened was that the tombola would turn half way and then fall all the way back.

Eventually they got it going but by then, half of it was already burnt under the huge fire they had going and after five hours of cooking, they opened it up, expecting this large sausage kebab thing to share out to all the hungry spectators but in fact got 40kg worth of raw sausage falling apart and covering every inch of the floor...

EDIT: BEHOLD! THE MIGHTY SAUSAGE OF DOOOOOOM!

 

[bates]

I went to Lujbljana this April ( for work) our organisation has some Slovenian members and the country is very beautifull and the people are nice.
I even have a very good friend there ( Mojca). But imo most countries in that region are beuatifull: Albania, Macedonia, Croatia etc... not all of them are that well know for tourism but hey pleny of things to discover.


Anyway nice pics and I noticed that you visited a castle how was the castle wine/ coffee?

a chateau 17..

 

[Prestwick]

I went to the Castle up above Ljubijana and the wine was very nice

The problem with the Balkans is :

a) the high proliferation of beer and local alcohol.
Be) the high proliferation of high strength coffee (especially in Bosnia)

So for most of the 10 days we followed the cycle of:

Party and get drunk - coffee - sight see - repeat

A real Samuel Peypys* holiday if I ever did see one!

(* Samuel Peypys, one of the first and most famous diarists lived in 17th century London and while working as an important civil servant was famous for his cycle of gin, beer, coffee and repeat during his working day.)

 

[bates]

Well I'm happy you liked it.

and I thank you for sharing your knowlegde concerning Samuel Peypys, the guy seemed to have a very nice, tho structured life

 

[Prestwick]

Haha yeah, believe it or not, the City of London (the old city, not counting Greater London) in the 17th century had more Coffee Houses then than it does now. The cycle at work was your morning draft (beer) and food for breakfast then coffee, gin and food for lunch and then coffee, afternoon draft and then coffee and then more gin and coffee...tea didn't come into the UK until the late 18th century and up until then it was all coffee, coffee, coffee...

 

[bates]

Yeah I know, in April - May there was this docu on BBC about the English food culutre throughout the centuries, just awesome.
In the Victorian ages they just drunk Clerot all the time and wifes were taking a bath in red wine getting ****** the entire time, after a week they had to go to the doc and he told them that if they continued like this they wouldn't get taht old, so they needed fresh veggies/ fruit and to move a bit.

Awesome

 

[Charles]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (amobokobokoboko @ Oct 7 2008, 09:34 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Yeah I know, in April - May there was this docu on BBC about the absence of English food culutre throughout the centuries, just awesome.
In the Victorian ages they just drunk Clerot all the time and wifes were taking a bath in red wine getting ****** the entire time, after a week they had to go to the doc and he told them that if they continued like this they wouldn't get taht old, so they needed fresh veggies/ fruit and to move a bit.

Awesome [/b]

fixed

 

[Prestwick]

This coming from a country fighting a rather desperate rear-guard action to preserve its own food culture, let alone other parts of French culture

A visit to any part of the UK and Northern Ireland will reveal just how awesome real British food is.

 

[bates]

Hmm, yummie pee's Fish and chips, pie's, stews etc...

And pints of bitter love

But now back to topic

 

[Charles]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Prestwick @ Oct 7 2008, 12:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

This coming from a country fighting a rather desperate rear-guard action to preserve its own food culture, let alone other parts of French culture

A visit to any part of the UK and Northern Ireland will reveal just how awesome real British food is.[/b]

Yes, we value our food and our culture, is that bad ? I tell you it ain't easy with all those McDos and KFC's and all that stuff.

If that is rear-guard then I guess severe Obesity is the paramount of modernity. Thanks but no thanks...