Heading to Serbia today, I noticed some more differences between Srpska and the Bosnian Federation. (I think I forgot to say before that Republika Srpska means Serbian Republic in Serbo-Croatian-Bosnian-whatever.) You see a lot more Sprska flags in Srpkska than you do any flags in the Federation. Sometimes you see the old (pre-1998--I don't know what happened in 1998, but the flag changed) Bosnian flag in the Federation and sometimes the new one, but I've never seen a Federation flag except on the internet. The Srpska flag looks a lot like the Serbian flag.
There's this little restaurant in the woods of Srpska that has a framed picture (a drawing, actually, of reasonable quality) of Ratko Mladić on the wall. Lola assures me that they all have Muslim friends, but also that most people in Sprska wouldn't give up Mladić for a trillion dollars. (Serbia is currently offering 10 million euros in reward money.) Maybe this is just how civil wars 'work'? I don't get it.
Also, Srpska is full of Turkish toilets. Ew.
Listen, Sam, I want to hear about what you're eating and drinking. Ideally you'll have a picture or two of some fatty meat. As I sit here eating my English muffins for breakfast, which is a rather elusive meal for me, I want to be reading about your wild cultural exploits in the dining hall, thinking about what could be waiting for my taste buds should I decide to fly somewhere else right now.
ReplyDeleteStock up on TP and hand sanitizer. I had to do that in Japan -- a lot of the free toilets were squat style. The non-free ones were robotic, so it averaged out to a normal shitter.