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Turns out that Vienna is really boring.  I realized this as I was lying on my bed, foot elevated, Achilles tendon throbbing for the 17th consecutive day.  Boring!  Even...

Ah, Österreich!  But first, the train from Zagreb.  Could have taken a bus, but trains have bathrooms!  And bar cars!  For about the same price as the bus, you can ride the rails like...

You want history?  Read any one of the other blogs about the Balkans.  Paleo…Iron…Rome…Ottoman (but just a smidge) …Austro-Hungarian…Yugoslavia…Croatia…War.  In the early 1990s, ethnic...

Let’s talk about Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH).  In general, BiH has not yet recovered from war in the 1990s.  Not that there aren’t areas that are beautiful, but those places...

Bosnia & Herzegovina On the bus from Kotor, Montenegro, to Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, I noticed that the mountains changed from the steep, rugged, jagged mountains to steep,...

The history of Montenegro is similar to the rest of the Balkan countries.  Ancient peoples, yadda, yadda, yadda, multiple occupiers across recorded history, yadda, yadda, yadda,...