Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Only one night in Mostar, detouring between Split and Dubrovnik. It's a beautiful town that suffered badly during the Bosnian War in the early 90s. There's still evidence of the conflict - buildings still show signs of bombing, bullet cartridges can be found in the market, turned into tourist gizmos. There are small cemeteries everywhere. The famous 16th century Mostar bridge was destroyed, and then rebuilt after the war.

The bridge is central to the Old Town. We crossed it to the markets and the mosque, watched young men dive 20m from it into the icy cold Neretva river, and sat under it watching jet boats fling under the arches. The Neretva is apparently the coldest river in Europe at about 7 degrees, and Lou and I can vouch for that. She lasted two minutes to my one :) and we both took a while to thaw (almost literally) after our swim. 

View from our hotel

You can just barely see the cross
on the mountain