WARNING - If you're not remotely interested in cars, you may as well go and find some kind of cooking or knitting website, coz this journal entry is pretty much about cars and it got kinda long too! Don't say I didn't warn you. Before coming to the Goodwood Festival of Speed (FoS), one of my motorsport mad mates told me it's the best motorsport event he'd ever been to. With this in miind I was really looking forward to going. We'd arranged to meet up with Nik an...

When we arrived back in Britain we headed to Brighton to spend a couple of days staying with Sian (before she headed off to the Glastonbury Festival and we headed to Goodwood). The first night we went out dinner with some of Sians workmates and then to the theatre to see a musical, High Society (payback to Paul for all the car stuff I've attended). Then the second night Paul cooked lasagne and we headed to the pub and I got to meet some of the people I'll be goin...

One of the few images I remember from the Yugoslavian war was the bombing of an amazing old bridge. I never really knew where the bridge was until we got to Mostar and I saw pictures of it, and then the bridge itself. The bridge was shelled until it fell down to the sound of celebratory machine-gunfire in 1993, and has been completely rebuilt using traditional techniques to be re-opened in 2004. It's pretty amazing to think that the original bridge was completed ...

When you think of Sarajevo I'm sure most of you think of the war from the early 90's, the siege that lasted over 1000 days. And there was lots to remind us of that time; bullet holes in every second building, graves in many of the parks and it was quite sobering. However Sarajevo is also home of the burek. While in Sarajevo we managed to try 4 different kinds of burek, they were (in order of my most to least favourite) spinach (zeljanica), cheese (simica), meat (...

We had planned to head to Greece after we visited Croatia, but the logistics were a bit challenging and time consuming - either two ferries via Italy, or an arduous land journey through Albania. Instead we decided to hang around in the Balkans for a while before flying to London. Montenegro borders Croatia to the South, and was formerly part of Serbia & Montenegro until a referendum last year. Apparently Slovadan Melosovic is a bit of a barrier to joining the...