Photo updates, and more...

I have updated the current trip photos to include several that I took yesterday. I think they are an accurate commentary on Međugorje, from the banal to the sublime. One is picture of the ceiling in my flat, as seen when lying on my bed. I thought is was an interesting play of light, shadow, and architecture.

I will be at home, in my house, in Somewheresville, Anywhere County, on August 6th. So I leave here in about 2 1/2 weeks and then 4 days in Budapest. I am hoping to get some good pictures there, especially in the Statue Park Museum outside the city. It is a big open space where the government has sent all the old Stalinist and other communist monoliths that used to pervade the area. It is open to the public. I am hoping for partly cloudy conditions to add to the dynamic.

This weekend is the second, and probably last, AA meeting in Mostar. Since I covered this pretty well in a previous post, I won't belabor you all with the political details. I will post an update on the outcome.

Next weekend I have reservations in a small hotel in the town of Jajce (Yai-yeets-say), which was one of Tito's favorite haunts. It is situated at the meeting of two rivers, and there is a real, honest-to-god waterfall in the town square.

During the war Jajce was the site of heavy fighting, changing hands several times between the three armies. The Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats blew it up, including the Turkish style home. Eventually the Bosnian Croats captured it and kept it. Now it is mostly Bosnian Serb, with a large Bosnian Croat minority and a smaller Bosniak population. It used to be almost all Bosniak. I have heard UNESCO is preparing to step in and take charge, which would mean a re-building of all the old structures, like they did in Počitelj. So I will stay there for two nights and come back. I leave Međugorje the following Saturday morning at 7:30 for Split, Croatia, and then Budapest the day after. All my hotels are booked, as are the flights. All I have to do is show up.

It's interesting to note that the closer I am to leaving the faster the time goes, like water down the drain...


Johnnyboy