FabSwingers.com forum: Sarajevo

By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

If you were trying to get from Bristol to Sarajevo, how would you get there?

It's on my bucket list, Hotel Bristol in Sarajevo.

And my fave football team is playing there next week.

FC Sarajevo versus Glasgow Celtic in da Champions League.

Flights are terribly dear - €600.

I am trying to persuade my fella to take us on his motorcycle - 1200 miles.

Anyone got any ideas?

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I’d drive.

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

I am busy trying to persuade him to give it a service. 2500 miles return.

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

Fly to Split, Zagreb or Ljubljana and hire a car - the drive is then sensational!

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By *iscreet gent2018Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

I’d fly to Split and drive. It’s a stunning country and a lot safer than it was when I was last there in 94/95 lol

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

"Fly to Split, Zagreb or Ljubljana and hire a car - the drive is then sensational! "

I must look and see if you can direct flight from a UK airport.

Thank you

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

You can fly Bristol to Split on Easyjet

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

"You can fly Bristol to Split on Easyjet"

That's a great idea, thanks. Prices look affordable, too!

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By *rontier PsychiatristMan
over a year ago

Coventry

Road or rail or a hybrid of both. Way more of an adventure that way.

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

All the pieces are starting to fall into place.

I am ever so excited!

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By *ebjonnsonMan
over a year ago

Maldon

The drive down the coast of Croatia is amazing. There is a modern motorway just inland, if time allows take in some of the coast. More than one thousand islands!

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

24 hours ago this was just a crazy off-the-wall idea.

I posted this thread on Fab.

You people have always got the answers.

That's what I love about this place - you post something totally random, and someone somewhere knows the answer.

Fabulous!

Thank you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

It's a 3 day ride including the tunnel. Done it several times. Have done it in 2 but that was rushing it a bit.

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

My fella came round to the idea of taking his motorcycle, by which time I was more excited by a suggestion above of going by Easyjet.

Return flights Bristol - Dubrovnik booked, hire car booked and just waiting now to hear about a flat in the old town centre.

By spooky coincidence, there is a Celtic FC bar in the old town, too lol.

Gonna be nuts!

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Sounds great. Have fun.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Aim for the coast and go to Sarajevo for a couple of days. Carry on down the coast into Montenegro, gorgeous coastline.

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

Ha, I just discovered I have to buy a border crossing permit at €45 when I pick up the car.

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

I'd assumed fella was gonna drive the hire car.

But he sent his licence away as ID for one of these heir-hunter things.

So now I'm going to drive.

I'm sure I'll get the hang of driving on the other side of the road.

Google tells me there are two routes, both about 4 hours - one via Foca and the other via Mostar.

Can anyone shed any light on the journey for a beginner?

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

Today's the day!

We hope to reach our flat in the city centre about 2300hrs if everything goes to plan.

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Hope you have an amazing time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sounds amazing. Enjoy x

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

Less than 24 hours here and BT has hit me with a bill of £162.68. I need to change how I use this phone.

That's steep!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"If you were trying to get from Bristol to Sarajevo, how would you get there?

It's on my bucket list, Hotel Bristol in Sarajevo.

And my fave football team is playing there next week.

FC Sarajevo versus Glasgow Celtic in da Champions League.

Flights are terribly dear - €600.

I am trying to persuade my fella to take us on his motorcycle - 1200 miles.

Anyone got any ideas?"
fly into split or dubrovnik and hire a car

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By *thwalescplCouple
over a year ago

brecon

If you get a chance, go to the island of Brac, stunning.

And if you fancy a bit of olde worlde romance, take a 6 hour train ride North-ish from Pristina to Budapest, it is a very scenic ride, although I doubt if they are still using the old railway carriages... I did it in 2002.

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

Ah, I see now, just noticed text messages from BT.

When I land at Dubrovnik, they send me a message say charges will be 10p/MB for data etc in Croatia.

Then as we came into Bosnia, they send another message saying charges with be £5/MB for data etc in Bosnia.

I switched that data thing off now and just using wifi.

Probably means I cannot use the "See who's near" function.

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By *allySlinkyWoman
over a year ago

Leeds

Massive phone bill. What a shame.

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

My own fault, really. Same bit of land but one part under EU regulation and one part not. Won't make that mistake again lol

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By *ordescourtMan
over a year ago

Warrington

"My own fault, really. Same bit of land but one part under EU regulation and one part not. Won't make that mistake again lol"

are you enjoying the trip so far

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

It's been fab.

Journey was a drama.

Five nights.

Night three.

Football at 1945

Big game for local team.

25 degrees and rain.

Celtic Pub just got a bit too raucous for us, so retreating to a wine bar on our way to the Olympic stadium where they held the opening ceremony for 1984 winter Olympics.

It's the most fascinating, multicultural place, where east meets west.

People watching is amazing.

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

Very cheap too.

The poshest places here are cheaper than the roughest places in Bristol for drinks.

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

Today is the 24th anniversary day of the Srebrenica massacre.

Big ceremony in Potocari for the burial of 33 recently discovered victims.

On Tuesday, President Erdogan of Turkey was in Sarajevo for a procession of remembrance.

I am shocked by how much I forgot or did not know.

120,000 civilians massacred, 2 million refugees.

Concentration camps and mass executions.

The siege of Sarajevo.

Shocking stuff. Really shocking.

I visited the Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.

About 7 people a year still dying from land mines.

Horrible.

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By *ordescourtMan
over a year ago

Warrington

"Today is the 24th anniversary day of the Srebrenica massacre.

Big ceremony in Potocari for the burial of 33 recently discovered victims.

On Tuesday, President Erdogan of Turkey was in Sarajevo for a procession of remembrance.

I am shocked by how much I forgot or did not know.

120,000 civilians massacred, 2 million refugees.

Concentration camps and mass executions.

The siege of Sarajevo.

Shocking stuff. Really shocking.

I visited the Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.

About 7 people a year still dying from land mines.

Horrible."

It's very sad what happend, I remember thinking how could something like that be allowed,

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By *ara J OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Bristol East

Yes. This was happening on the doorstep of Europe.

Ethnic cleansing of the kind last seen in Europe in the 1930s and 1940s.

The world seemed indifferent to what was going on.

It was only really when a mortar shell on a market killed 40-odd that Clinton banged some heads together and bombed the Serb positions.

The loss of life by that stage was dreadful.

It appears that 43 people have been convicted of war crimes and imprisoned.

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By *iscreet gent2018Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

"Today is the 24th anniversary day of the Srebrenica massacre.

Big ceremony in Potocari for the burial of 33 recently discovered victims.

On Tuesday, President Erdogan of Turkey was in Sarajevo for a procession of remembrance.

I am shocked by how much I forgot or did not know.

120,000 civilians massacred, 2 million refugees.

Concentration camps and mass executions.

The siege of Sarajevo.

Shocking stuff. Really shocking.

I visited the Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.

About 7 people a year still dying from land mines.

Horrible.

It's very sad what happend, I remember thinking how could something like that be allowed, "

I was there in 1995 as part of the UN Peacekeeping Force. The level of destruction and devastating was enormous and will stay with me forever.

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By *inkKinkMan
51 weeks ago

Southampton

All this driving? Why not just fly to Sarajevo? It's cheap. We love it here

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