Three days is Tirana Albania, this was not a coastal city, but it has history. The country of Albania can fit inside Alabama 4.5 times, in other words, its a small place and they have over 170,000 bunkers in the city left over from the communist era. We took a city walking tour and learned; Mother Teresa's family was from there, they have a large piece of the Berlin wall donated to them, the mafia is still live and well.
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Kotor Montenegro, This place is wonderful!
We stayed in the Old Town of Kotor tucked back in a bay of Montenegro. Pam and I prefer coastal towns and this one was just right. Our AIRBNB was just the right size within walking distance of everything. We took a boat tour of the bay and another day we rode bikes 25 miles around part of it. On our boat tour we went into old submarine tunnels built by Yugoslavia's navy during the Cold War. Just like all the other European old towns this one had a walled city around its old city.
Mostar, Bosnia a great small old town with a DARK history
Getting
to Mostar took us on a 6-hour bus ride from Split following the river Neretva.
Once in Mostar Pam and I spent 3 days walking the streets of the old town and eating
at some wonderful restaurants and watching divers jump off the 500-year-Old Bridge.
However, we learned the details of the Bosnia war, I would call it a civil war
from 1992 to 1995.
After
the breakup of Yugoslavia into 6 small nations, multiethnic populations were
divided by borders. These ethnic groups
are the Bosnian Muslims, Serbs and Croats. These three groups had been fighting
for years before, but never on this 1992-1995 scale. Bosnia’s Muslims were the
primary victims and Serbs the primary perpetrators, Croats were also among the
victims and perpetrators. Families that
lived next to one another started killing each other, because they were
different. It was originally estimated that at least 200,000 people were killed
and more than 2,000,000 displaced during the 1992–95 war.
Some
of the pictures show bullet holes from the war, our AIRBNB had bullet holes in its
outside wall.
Tirana Albania, a small place
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