Herzegovina… Mostar… A place which suffered severely during the Balkan war in the early 90’s….  
Systematic shot to pieces by people who didn’t allow to let each other see the light, sort of speak.  For the outside word this was a religious war, but as always, politics did a ‘great’ job to start it, so we were told.  Religion was brought in as a reason to ‘make sense’. 

 We entered Croatia around midday, with the idea to drive through as fast as possible (in time) and head towards Bosnia.  
Midday also means lunchtime.  Around 2 o’clock in the afternoon we stopped at a roadside restaurant to fill our stomachs.  If only we knew what would happen in the next hours we could have stayed longer or skipped lunch at all…

Ready for takeoff

About 100 horses, 250kg including luggage and fuel for about 300km, 4 times…

First of all, I want to thank Ad (ATAK) for the tremendous amount of time he had put in preparing this trip, although it ended for him a little bit premature in Croatia.

This trip started in Villach in Austria, crossed Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and Albania, to end up in the north of Greece

 As the 5th EAR in the Dolomites wasn't as we expected, Tom and I decided to head out to the other side of Italy: the area with the French border. 

 As the 4th EAR in 2008 was such an intense experience, I had to go to the 5th one also.

This year the location was in the Dolomites (Italy) for the first half of the week and towards and in Slovenia for the second half.  

The original idea/plan for Easter this year was to ride a TransPirinaica.  A track from East to West (or the other way around) through the Pyrenees.  Mostly on the Spanish side.

Heavy snowfall decided we should do something else...

 As it was time to ride again, and I needed to make some arrangements with the Nufenens for our Easter trip, I decided to fly to Spain again.  But what would we be doing all weekend?  Yes… Riding!

As riding with the Nufenens (real names: Javi & Marta) was such a success and nice time, taking more trips together was a wish we both had.

After talking about rides, memories of the ride in August and planning for the next years, Javi made a proposition to me to come to the Barcelona-Andorra ride in October

After having a wonderful time on the 4th European Advrider Rally in Sort and having the feeling that there was a lot more to ride in that area.  Also, due to the heavy rainfall some river crossings where not possible at that time.