Neues und Altes aus dem "ehemaligen Staat" (Jugoslawien)
(German text below/Deutsche Fassung unten) In Serbia, 15 people have died in the collapse of the railway station platform in Novi Sad. The cause was probably sloppiness on the part of the construction company and the construction supervision. And corruption may also have been involved in the awarding and execution of the contract. This is... Continue Reading →
Couldn't that be a landscape from the film "Avatar"? How did we get there? Here is the story: Those who need to travel from Sarajevo to Podgorica have several options. Unfortunately, a train connection is not one of them. By plane, you would have to go either via Belgrade, Vienna or even Istanbul. We therefore... Continue Reading →
Sarajevo is a city of many contrasts, which do not clash, but create a colourful mosaic. Here are two pictures that marke this span:
With this orthodox Easter greeeting in Cyrillic script we wish everyone how celebrates this religous holiday all the best. This Easter greeting is hanging in Travnik, Bosnia and Hercegovina, across the main street, on which posters advertise menus for breaking the fast in the Muslim fasting month of Ramazan, not far away from a billboard... Continue Reading →
Fans of lost places, i.e. dilapidated, no longer used buildings and other objects, usually have to go far away from civilisation to find such places, which are as run-down as they are enchanted.This is different in Skopje, the capital of the state that is now called North Macedonia, unfamiliar but much shorter than before (when... Continue Reading →
Regular visitors to this website already know: we have a soft spot for ex-Yugoslavian railways and now and then stamps play a role here. Now we have found a website which that combines both, stamps with steam and other locomotives. On this site you can click through "the shuffelin madness of locomotive stamps"But what do... Continue Reading →
Regelmäßige Besucher dieser Website wissen es schon: Wir haben ein Faible für ex-jugoslawische Eisenbahnen und ab und an spielen hier auch Briefmarken eine Rolle. Nun haben wir eine Website gefunden, die beides bietet, nämlich Briefmarken mit Dampf- und anderen Loks, kombiniert. Hier kann man sich seitensweise durch „Lok-Marken“ klicken. Was aber haben die jungen Menschen... Continue Reading →
Yugoslavian Longing No. 1: Workers' Self-Government Yugoslavia was a land of longing for very different people in Western Europe. On the one hand, there were those who were looking for a mor social(ist) political system. In Yugoslavia, so they could read, besides dear Uncle Tito, who liked to surround himself with international film stars, workers'... Continue Reading →
During my first journey to Bosnia after the beginning of the pandemia I reach Jaice around noon. The town was the capital of Bosnia and the seat of the kings until it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire. However, it is known beyond the country itself because it was here, in the winter of 1943,... Continue Reading →
Anyone listening to the radio or watching television in Bosnia at the beginning of August might have thought they were back in the Federal Republic of Germany in the 1970s: All news broadcasts began with the family name "Schmidt". This time, however, the first name was not Helmut, but Christian. The former Federal Minister of... Continue Reading →
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