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<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\nI climbed back down to explore the rest of Mostar. On the way I stopped by a pharmacy to replace what I used the day before. The Old Town was packed with tour groups, reminding me of a tiny section (very tiny) of Istanbul.\n<\/p>\n
Abandoning the Old Town to the mid-day heat, I returned to the hostel to relax through the peak heat of the day. I also researched the Ciro trail – the rails-to-trails path between here and Dubrovnik. In the late afternoon I returned to wandering the city. I kept passing Moritz, each of us always headed to where the other had just been. <\/p>\n Later in the evening I hung out with other travelers, getting skunked at cards and talking about US politics and health care.<\/p>\n While I decided to leave tomorrow after the hostel breakfast, I decided to pack early. I also can’t find my flash drive, so I pulled everything out looking for it. While doing so I discovered I had torn the front pannier in the crash. I pulled it apart and restitched the damaged section. While doing so I had animated conversations with my room mates. Everything repaired and packed, yet more discussion back in the common area. <\/p>\n With breakfast served at 9:30 am, I stayed up too late reading. I still woke to the sun, and said goodbye to Moritz when he left for his 7:00 am bus. I might have talked him into trying EuroVelo 6 from Passau; Moritz being from Germany makes that an easy start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This morning, after an absolutely fabulous hostel breakfast, it was time to explore Mostar. Mostar was one of the front lines for the recent war. I overheard a tour guide say over 99% of the city was destroyed. All of the bridges were knocked down. Snipers used the 7-story bank building on one side of … Continue reading “180518-Where We Both Explore At Different Times”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2276\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irelandbybicycle.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n