Notes from Bosnia #1
My Newsletter -17 April 2024.
📰 The Update 📰
I have decided that these “Newsletters” (rather then the blog posts, podcasts and vlogs), although archived here on Substack, won’t be accessible through the main menu on the site.
Why?
Well a newsletter helps me to be more informal. I might want to rant OR drift “off topic” at times. AND, it will allow me to sometimes write a lot other times just offer a photo essay, Flexibility.
A newsletter from me will be a midweek type of thing.
I have also started to number them (these newsletters), starting today.
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🩺 Health 🩻
I’m not too sure that I should write this, but here goes. I think that most people who follow me on the “interwebs” will have gathered that I have had a medical issue since early January. I have received numerous questions, so I don’t want to go into details, but it’s centred around a Bladder or Kidney issue.
I have been going through a number of tests to determine what it is. What the problem is. We think, (we think), we know what it is, but one of two more tests to do.
I have started a 3 month course of antibiotics, so a little way to go yet.
I hope this wasn’t TMI? But at least you know that I am still around, although a little more exhausted than I am used to.
🏡 The Village 🏡
Spring is definitely taking hold now.
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🗞️ Positive stories that you might never hear about 🗞
️Air Serbia Resumes Flights Between Belgrade and Mostar After 33 Years.
The resumption of flights is a result of a public call by local authorities in Mostar, who offered subsidies to encourage new flight connections to the city. This development will enhance connectivity and offer exciting travel opportunities for passengers between these two historic cities.
Marathon Airlines will operate the flight on Air Serbia’s behalf, three times per week (Mondays, Fridays, and Sundays), using an 88-seat Embraer E175, wet-leased and operated on Air Serbia’s behalf by Marathon Airlines.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić on the Inaugral Flight, while travelling on a two-day state visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina ⬆️
Scheduled flights between Belgrade and Mostar were first established on August 15, 1962 by JAT Yugoslav Airlines. The service would operate off and on throughout the coming decades.
The route initially served the local population but from the 1980s onwards became popular with transfer passengers traveling for religious purposes to visit the Medjugorje site. JAT itself sold special travel packages to Mostar for pilgrims in markets including the United States, the United Kingdom to as far afield as the Philippines.
My friend Martin Gannon, worked for JAT back in the 1980’s, based in Jugoslavija, and opened the “Pilgrim Route”, as he explains below in a clip from a podcast we recorded some time ago.
As Yugoslavia started to disintegrate, services were discontinued. JAT’s last flight on the route, which was also the final commercial flight between the two cities until yesterday, took place on November 23, 1991.
This development promises enhanced connectivity and exciting travel opportunities for passengers between these two historic cities.
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