{"id":3825,"date":"2013-05-08T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=3825"},"modified":"2015-02-15T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T11:22:00","slug":"somewhere-along-r114-mokra-gora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/?p=3825","title":{"rendered":"Somewhere along R114 &#8211; Mokra Gora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was more rain last night but the morning promised a sunny day.<\/p>\n<p>We continued on the road to Bosnia and Herzegovina, mostly down-hill. At some random junction we stopped to check the GPS and were quite surprised to see that we were already in Bosnia and Herzegovina! No border signs, no check-points, no nothing. We were in a village and I asked an older guy what this was, Bosnia, or Serbia, or what??<\/p>\n<p>He said &#8216;Bosnia&#8217;. &#8216;Until the bridge down there, then there is Serbia again.&#8217; We were completely confused. It turned out Goran, that was his name, had worked in Austria for 37 years and speaks German (with quite a bit of an Austrian accent that was hard to understand sometimes), <em>voastehst mi<\/em>? We asked if we could refill our water bottles and were invited to sit there with him and his son. We then were &#8216;forced&#8217; to: 3 glasses of rakija (a strong home-made spirit, I gave up after 2 glasses), a beer, a couple of boiled eggs. We received one litre of rakija, a bar of chocolate, and a couple more boiled eggs for the road. In between his nephew came over (with more eggs) for a rakija, we asked all kinds of questions about the war and the borders, and he told us things about his time in Austria.<\/p>\n<p>So we were in Bosnia, but a Serbian enclave was just down the road that is not on any of our maps. His son was a Serbian border guard and he received his pension in Serbian Dinars. <em>Total verr\u00fcckt, voastehst mi?<\/em> His son (and also his nephew) had fought in the war for 3 years.<\/p>\n<p>Eventually we said Good Bye and cycled on &#8211; slightly tipsy &#8211; but soon had to stop at a Serbian border check-point. Ah, we were entering the enclave! Nope, we were leaving it, we learned. A few kilometers further &#8211; a Bosnian check-point. Now we were in Bosnia proper, finally. Oh, and the Serbian flag was hanging from quite a few flag poles in Bosnia. <em>Total verr\u00fcckt do, voastehst mi?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another climb, another down-hill section, another grand canyon. The Balkans are really, really beautiful&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>We left Bosnia and Herzegovina in the late afternoon for Serbia &#8211; again. This time it was expected, though. We are in Mokra Gora, a couple of kilometers from the border.<\/p>\n<p>Cycled: 64km<\/p>\n<div class=\"rl-gallery-container \" id=\"rl-gallery-container-1\" data-gallery_id=\"0\"> <div class=\"rl-gallery rl-basicmasonry-gallery \" id=\"rl-gallery-1\" data-gallery_no=\"1\"> <div class=\"rl-gutter-sizer\"><\/div><div class=\"rl-grid-sizer\"><\/div> <div class=\"rl-gallery-item rl-gallery-item-width-4\" > <div class=\"rl-gallery-item-content\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2013\/05\/Screenshot-20130508-181943.png\" title=\"Somewhere along R114 - Mokra Gora\" data-rl_title=\"Somewhere along R114 - Mokra Gora\" class=\"rl-gallery-link\" data-rl_caption=\"\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/onmytodd.org\/wp-uploads\/2013\/05\/Screenshot-20130508-181943-300x180.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Somewhere along R114 - Mokra Gora\" \/><span class=\"rl-gallery-caption\"><span class=\"rl-gallery-item-title\">Somewhere 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We continued on the road to Bosnia and Herzegovina, mostly down-hill. 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