So I finally managed to make it to Yenilmez, the village of the “clans”. It was really a one horse town with not a single shop around, on account of the inhabitants growing all their own vegetables and raising their own livestock. Most of the houses were poor mud-brick structures, some of them a hundred years old, but amidst all of …
Greetings from Midyat, a completely random city in the east of Turkey, close to the Iraq-Syria border where I feel I am the only Western tourist in one of the few hotels in town, which are dirt cheap by German standards. Personally, though, I am wondering what I’m doing here. It all goes back to …
The best way to see the Balkans is by bus, and if you don’t have wheels, it is often the only way. The Balkans is a real bus culture. From Novi Sad to Istanbul and beyond, I must have sampled every bus station of note there is. Bus stations in the Balkans, I have found …
Did you know that Salt Lake City is home to one of America’s most close-knit communities of Bosnians? Now, I am a bit of a connoisseur of the Bosnian diaspora. I have followed the Bosnian trail from Sarajevo to Berlin, Vienna and Istanbul. But what, you may wonder, are Bosnian Muslims doing in Utah – …
