by Richard Collett | Dec 12, 2015 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, FROM THE ROAD
The white gravestones stretch from the edge of Sarajevo’s Old Town to the fortress perched on the summit of the hill. The first few that I pass have the year 1991 engraved upon them, the next ’92, then ’93, ’94 and on and on as I climb higher...
by Richard Collett | Dec 8, 2015 | Bosnia and Herzegovina, PHOTOS FROM THE ROAD
Beautiful yet brutal. That’s Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is a country where Bosnian Muslims live next to Orthodox Serbs, and orthodox Serbs live next to Catholic Croatians. Everyone gets on smashingly, except for when they don’t get on smashingly....
by Richard Collett | Dec 1, 2015 | ABANDONED PLACES, Bosnia and Herzegovina
“Be careful”, said Miran. “Don’t step off the path”. The crazy Bosnian had led us right into the middle of a minefield. “If you go to the right there’s a fifty percent chance of death, and if you do down there to the left,...
by Richard Collett | Nov 28, 2015 | ABANDONED PLACES, Bosnia and Herzegovina
In 1984 the Winter Olympics were hosted by the city of Sarajevo. Then part of Yugoslavia, the games brought together athletes and spectators from all over the world in a communist state for the first time in history. But only a few years later war would shake the...
by Richard Collett | Nov 21, 2015 | ABANDONED PLACES, Bosnia and Herzegovina
In the 1990’s Yugoslavia met its death in the vicious wars that split the country apart. Now, across the new nations of the Balkans, you can see the abandoned remnants of this previous era. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, I found a secret Yugoslav Airbase,...
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