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Croatia and a couple of Balkans, 2nd October, a morning in Mostar and a long drive

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We woke up bright and early to have a good breakfast at the Villa Fortuna and stow our luggage so we could take advantage of our car parking space and walk around Mostar. First I took a picture of the little room in the garden set up like a Turkish kitchen. We first visited the Old Bridge again, reconstructed by the Spanish after the civil war. There are steps constructed in the walk way to stop you slipping on the shiny stone. At one end is  a building which houses a photographic exhibition on the first floor. The pictures are by a New Zealander Wayne Goddard who came to Mostar in 1992 at the age of 22, and stayed during the war chronicling the survival of the Bosnian people living east of the river under siege from the Croats in the west.  From the staircase leading up to the exhibition you get a great view of the bridge. Boys dive from the bridge into the Neretva river, in fact there is even a 'dive office' on the ground floor of the building we were in. A man in re