Today always promised to be an interesting day, and it lived up to expectations! Met Ben early in the morning, who then took andrea, Petrina Romana (catching a ride to Mostar with us) and myself down to pick up the rental car we had organised for the day. As much as I had told the others I didnt want to drive, I had prepared myself for the fact I most likely would be. When Petrina told us in the morning she didnt have her license on her, that helped confirm it....

Never quite got around to doing the walking tour that was booked in, so instead sought out the local knowledge of Ben in the morning for some ideas on what to see. He always seemed very passionate about the city, and its surrounding areas and more than happy to offer advice. Talked a bit about the devastating war that happened so recently, and his involvement in it. Although, nearly all males of fighting age would have been expected to help fight in one way or a...

Had a somewhat long day at work on Thursday, so simply stayed up all night and got ready for a very early taxi ride out to the airport on Friday morning. M4 was closed so took Andrea and myself a while to get out there. Checked in ok, and met Petrina before passing through security and getting breakfast from Pret. The flights down were ok, London to Vienna, then onto Sarajevo had window seats both times and the flights were kinda quiet, so was good. Got to Sara...

Time to finally leave Egypt. Met our transfer driver at 10.30am who then took us out to the airport. For whatever reason he treated the drive as a Sunday morning cruise, a bit of a change from the brash overtaking, driving on the wrong side, speeding and near misses that we had become accustomed to. Got to the airport and pretty standard stuff until one of the security staff attempted to get Dean to bribe him in order to take some glass containers onto the flig...

To be honest this day was a bit of a waste. All of the others had returned home, and we the three of us were in a city where we had seen the major sights, yet weren't confident enough to jump in very random and sporadic white vans ('public transport') to go into the city centre. So instead the day consisted of movies, movies and a few sudoku puzzles. We did however manage to leave the hotel in order to get dinner, which turned out to be a very nice Tex-Mex restau...