Trip to Bosnia + anniversary
So we went to Bosnia to see my family and show Steve around as he hadn't been there before. We drove so it was quite a road trip as well!
On friday the 8th of june we started driving at 7 in the mornig all the way to Austria where around 8 in the evening we got a B&B in a little village called Kalwang. The B&B was excellent and we were both dead tired. We had had a little rain in the evening and woke up to fog, but by the time we started driving again (8.30) it was sunny again.
The second day we drove through Austria, Slovenija, Kroatia and Republica Srpska all the way to our destination: my fathers house in a small village named Vrapcici near the town of Mostar. We arrived around 6.30 in the evening and were quite chuffed about our travelling 1764 km in total!
We spent a week with my father and stepmother, visited loads of family and friends/neighbours and also did some sightseeing. We also did loads of eating and sleeping. It was really nice and interesting and new for Steve, but it was quite hard for him as he couldn't talk with anyone but my father and me. Some of my aunts still talked Srebo-Kroatian at him nontheless :D Also very funny to me that an English man and a Bosnian man talk Dutch together :D
My fathers garden
Father and Steve
Mostar old town
Blagaj
Pocitelj
My family were quite dissapointed that we were only staying for a week and that my mother hadn't come with us, but what could we do. I also found it a little hard to talk to my family and to my father (as there is quite a bit of history there) but it all went very well.
On the saturday before we were going home we had a small party at my aunts, with a BBQ and all the family. My cousing had made us an anniversary cake as the next day (sunday the 17th of june) was our first wedding anniversary! She doesn't know english so no comments by spelling nazis! ;)
So sunday the 17th of june, our fist wedding anniversary, we set out driving again (08.10)! We took a different route, driving south to the coast of Kroatia and following the coast to Split, a lovely schenic route!
Anniversary couple
We then took a brand new shiny motorway to Zagreb, hurried through Slovenija, flew through Austria and over the German border one minute before 8 in the evening! We drove on a little longer and at 8.30 we went in search of petrol and a place to sleep.
We ended up in the cutest little Bavarian village called Schwarzach in a lovely little hotel, where we exchanged anniversary cards and sat on the terrace relaxing and having a drink and lovely apple-pastry thingies!
The next morning we had a nice breakfast and started driving again at 8.30. We had incredibly good luck through Germany, and no rain untill Holland. We were home aound 4.15 in the afternoon and found my mum had put up some balloons and lots of people had sent us anniversary cards! Plus Steve found his little present from me in thepost :D We also got the top tier of the wedding cake out of the freezer and were really happy to be home after driving a total of 1929 km back :)
Obviously there are loads more pictures on flickr :D
Miki
On friday the 8th of june we started driving at 7 in the mornig all the way to Austria where around 8 in the evening we got a B&B in a little village called Kalwang. The B&B was excellent and we were both dead tired. We had had a little rain in the evening and woke up to fog, but by the time we started driving again (8.30) it was sunny again.
The second day we drove through Austria, Slovenija, Kroatia and Republica Srpska all the way to our destination: my fathers house in a small village named Vrapcici near the town of Mostar. We arrived around 6.30 in the evening and were quite chuffed about our travelling 1764 km in total!
We spent a week with my father and stepmother, visited loads of family and friends/neighbours and also did some sightseeing. We also did loads of eating and sleeping. It was really nice and interesting and new for Steve, but it was quite hard for him as he couldn't talk with anyone but my father and me. Some of my aunts still talked Srebo-Kroatian at him nontheless :D Also very funny to me that an English man and a Bosnian man talk Dutch together :D
My fathers garden
Father and Steve
Mostar old town
Blagaj
Pocitelj
My family were quite dissapointed that we were only staying for a week and that my mother hadn't come with us, but what could we do. I also found it a little hard to talk to my family and to my father (as there is quite a bit of history there) but it all went very well.
On the saturday before we were going home we had a small party at my aunts, with a BBQ and all the family. My cousing had made us an anniversary cake as the next day (sunday the 17th of june) was our first wedding anniversary! She doesn't know english so no comments by spelling nazis! ;)
So sunday the 17th of june, our fist wedding anniversary, we set out driving again (08.10)! We took a different route, driving south to the coast of Kroatia and following the coast to Split, a lovely schenic route!
Anniversary couple
We then took a brand new shiny motorway to Zagreb, hurried through Slovenija, flew through Austria and over the German border one minute before 8 in the evening! We drove on a little longer and at 8.30 we went in search of petrol and a place to sleep.
We ended up in the cutest little Bavarian village called Schwarzach in a lovely little hotel, where we exchanged anniversary cards and sat on the terrace relaxing and having a drink and lovely apple-pastry thingies!
The next morning we had a nice breakfast and started driving again at 8.30. We had incredibly good luck through Germany, and no rain untill Holland. We were home aound 4.15 in the afternoon and found my mum had put up some balloons and lots of people had sent us anniversary cards! Plus Steve found his little present from me in thepost :D We also got the top tier of the wedding cake out of the freezer and were really happy to be home after driving a total of 1929 km back :)
Obviously there are loads more pictures on flickr :D
Miki
posted by Steve & Miki at 12:27 pm
1 Comments:
Happy Anniversary! I can't believe it's been a year since your wedding, time has flown by.
Bosnia looks beautiful. I'm impressed by your dad's house with all the lovely fruit trees.
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