In Mostar we visited our third notable Bosnian Bridge. The Balkans are dotted with these ottomans marvels and I’m a bit obsessed with them. The former Yugoslavia is and incredible intersection of cultures—it is a synergistic breath of otherness which I find beautiful. Here, Ottoman architecture is overlaid onto a European canvas like cursive flourishes …
On our drive though Bosnia & Herzegovina, we did a little sleuthing on our phones and got in contact with the missionaries in Sarajevo. The Elders were busy but the sisters had a spare hour during lunchtime for us to take them out to eat. We love meeting missionaries wherever we go and taking them …
Winding our way home has unfolded a spectacular scene of bridges, tunnels, and viewpoints.
We had a couple Bosnian Bridges on our road trip radar. Both of them were constructed in the 1500’s and are long standing testaments to the excellence of Ottoman craftsmanship. The first was Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge that spans the Drina river in Visegrad. It was built in the 1500’s which boggles the American …
When I was a little girl, I used to have a well-worn nursery rhyme book. I loved all the rhymes in it– they were a staple of my, well–what I thought was– my tranquil childhood. Yet, as an adult, clearly I didn’t get the jest of these children’s mostly morbid rhymes–like the cradle falling with …
