Comments for Bosnablog

Comment on Željezničar by MOSA

MOSA — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 23:03:52 +0000

I just beagn to read your blog and i have to say your amazing and “Zeljo” is my favorite team :)

Comment on Marš Mira by Jasmin Jusufović

Jasmin Jusufović — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:39:49 +0000

Dear friend, I took a freedom to call you like this, since you have felt, and simpathised the pain I had been through on that unforgettable, surreal eleventh of July 1995. Your sincereness touched the deepest parts of what people like to call “soul”. You are a friend I have to meet with. Please, if you are still here, contact me via e-mail I provided. Let’s have a good old BOsnian coffee and chat.

Comment on Visoko by rob

rob — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 00:34:24 +0000

That sort of misses the whole point of the article, which I'm fairly sure you've not actually read—or read properly at least. I'm not being imperialist at all, I have no desire either to minimise or to appropriate Bosnia's rich and genuine history, the history that drew me to the country in the first place. My issue is with the falsification of that rich and genuine history in order to further the ego of a single man—and the deluding of a entire group of people who quite understandably want it to be true, and are willing to suspend their disbelief in the hope that it is.

It's exploitative, it's egotistical, and it's destroying the genuine history that Bosnia so richly deserves to be proud of and to be recognised for.

And yes, I'm well aware of the history of Catholicism in Bosnia, of the Bosnian Church, and of the Franciscans; I just found the presence of a thriving Catholic school and monastery in an area with a negligible Catholic population to be vaguely surprising and worthy of comment. That is, after all, the whole point of a travel blog!

Comment on Visoko by Mirza Basic

Mirza Basic — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:40:34 +0000

Why do you find it strange for a Catholic school to be based in 96% Muslim town? Do you know the role of Catholics (Franjevci) in Bosnia?

Your dismissal of the 'pyramid' site as a hoax is also very imperialistic, ignorant and very repelling.

Visoki is a very significant place in Bosnia and there is a great shame in the fact that it has been hidden from history for all these years, including by the current regime in Bosnia.

Rather than rant on about things which you might not be so sure about (like the pyramids which have not been proven either way to be so or not), you should be heading up the goat paths to the ancient Bosnian stronghold of Bobovac and see also up there that very little to nothing remains.

This is what happens after things have been eroding away in water heavy quake prone terrains of always oppressed Bosnia which you are so subtly dissing in your article!

Bosnia is not like Egypt where various monuments have been nicely preserved in sand for 1000s of years and even there most tombs have been violated and stolen from by various thieves, so its a typical thing to happen anywhere in the world.

You writing about breccia is footnote one would really also benefit from some more scientific references, otherwise you are making yourself look like an outright idiot with that line.

Thanks.

Comment on Higher still by rob

rob — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:02:30 +0000

I unironically agree, and also admire your ability to conjure up a Fry & Laurie clip for literally every occasion. It’s why I married you

Comment on Higher still by Rusty

Rusty — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:42:24 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViIzF2k4Hpo

Comment on Higher still by rob

rob — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:46:37 +0000

And yes, I have that same map-related issue: I’m loath to get my map out in view of anyone, and if—after at least an hour of being lost—I concede defeat and have to reduce myself shamefully to consulting it, I try to hide somewhere as though I’m shooting up or something. It doesn’t help that the only map I have is of the 1m x 1m foldout variety, which makes me look like a total tit in addition to singling me out as a moronic foreigner

Comment on Higher still by rob

rob — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:36:52 +0000

More photos, in higher resolutions, are available here. I am, as we speak, writing a thing to display photos from that Flickr set on the homepage, but I'm not quite sure where to put it. Probably along the bottom, but we'll see!

Comment on Higher still by Rusty

Rusty — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:30:03 +0000

The pictures look incredible, but can you link them to full sized ones, or to a flickr/whatever account with more of them, or similar?

Your orientation issues reminded me of a glorious schoolboy error I made on my first day in Melbourne. Refusing to consult my map of the gridded city centre streets like some common tourist, I decided to navigate using only the direction of the sun. It was a full fifteen minutes of hard marching before I realised that in the southern hemisphere the sun passes through the north, not the south...