Brčko, the Balkans’ ‘Free City’?

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”, “Castellano”, “Deutsch”, “Français”, “Italiano” и “Română”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. We left the common pastures of Croatia and again skirted the border between Croatia and Bosnia, finally crossing for a lunch spot at the border control point. Here an Italian man stopped to wish us well on our journey, only to then return 10 minutes later with a huge watermelon and bottles of fizzy pop;…

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Brücken über Grenzen? Grenzen unter Brücken.

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”, “Castellano”, “Deutsch”, “Français”, “Italiano” и “Română”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. “Brücken bauen” – nichts könnte eigentlich sinnbildlicher dafür stehen, Grenzen zu überwinden. Doch was uns auf unserer Reise immer wieder auffällt, ist die Funktion von Brücken als Grenzen. Besonders entlang der Sava wird uns klar, was das heißt: Ganze Städte, die früher mal eine Einheit waren und sich in einem Staat befanden, sind heute durch…

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A Common Treasury for all…

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”, “Castellano”, “Deutsch”, “Français”, “Italiano” и “Română”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. Through a contact at Green Action Zagreb, our next destination was to meet activist fighting for the right to common pastures in Croatia. We made camp in their common field, and took a wash in the Sava – some of us even swimming across to Bosnia on the other side! The next morning we met…

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Museum of Local Life and the stone flower for the victims of Jasenovac

Извините, этот техт доступен только в “English”, “Castellano”, “Deutsch”, “Français”, “Italiano” и “Română”. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in this site default language. You may click one of the links to switch the site language to another available language. After wild camping near to the the Lonjsko Polje Nature Park, we set off next morning, despite the rain, for our 70 km cycling day along the Sava river. En route a few of us took the opportunity to visit a local social anthropology/ ethnographic museum in someone’s back garden. Without any common language we…

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