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 –
