• Subverb@lemmy.world
        39·
        vor 2 Jahren

        My wife and I took a cruise for our honeymoon that stopped in Kotor, Montenegro. For fun, we rented a car and drove up to Split in Croatia along the sea. That means we got to drive through that strip of Bosnia. We stopped and had lunch at a little pizza place in Neum, Bosnia.

        The people in the pizza place asked us how in the world we came to be there. 😆

        • macaroni1556@lemmy.ca
          8·
          vor 2 Jahren

          How long ago was this? A road trip along this route I think is pretty common and Dubrovnik is a very popular tourist destination these days, especially since they joined the Schengen area.

          • DrRatso@lemmy.ml
            4·
            vor 2 Jahren

            Its been common for a while, but I think the point is people dont really stop there

        • Lemmy_2019
          2·
          vor 2 Jahren

          Kotor looks gorgeous. Is it any way interesting there?

          • toynbee@lemmy.world
            4·
            vor 2 Jahren

            I know this is due to context, but “is KOTOR interesting” is a very entertaining question.

            (I hope this isn’t offensive. It’s not meant to be.)

      • mihor@lemmy.ml
        6·
        vor 2 Jahren

        Yeah, they actually built a goddamn huge Pelješac bridge last year to circumvent this part, so if you’re travelling along the croatian coast down to Dubrovnik you don’t need to cross the Neum border any longer. They actually spent like half a billion euros on that project just out of spite. That’s the balkan thing.

    • AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world
      17·
      vor 2 Jahren

      That’s actually really interesting!

      TL;DR they gave the coast to the Ottoman Empire hundreds of years ago for free because they were tired of fighting invaders from the sea. Free protection in exchange for cities they weren’t able to defend anyway.

      • rekabis@lemmy.ca
        6·
        vor 2 Jahren

        Republicans have always been at the top of the leaderboard when it comes to corruption-based gerrymandering.

        • MyEdgyAlt@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          vor 2 Jahren

          The Illinois Democrats have some stuff going on too. I mention this not to “both sides 🤪” but because it’s important to be aware of the non-fascists’ wrongdoings too, so you aren’t caught off guard by occasional accurate information from corrupt fascists. Wasn’t that the state where the governor tried to sell Obama’s seat after he became president?

          Edit: fixed link

    • s_s@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      vor 2 Jahren

      Most of the towns along the sea were parts of the Venetian Republic and share a lot of common culture through that. There’s no dividing them at this point.

  • ganksy@lemmy.world
    9·
    vor 2 Jahren

    On the flip side, at least they don’t need much border security. Unless it’s Croatia invading.