Sarajevo to Belgrade - New York Times

Monday's New York Times had a front page (below the fold) article regarding a rail journey Sarajevo to Belgrade:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/world ... train.html

Brief passage:

• For the chain-smoking Serbs, Croats and Bosnians toasting one another in the cafe car, the revived passenger line was certainly a sign that their forced isolation from the rest of Europe and the world beyond could be on the verge of ending.

Gilbert B Norman wrote:Monday's New York Times had a front page (below the fold) article regarding a rail journey Sarajevo to Belgrade:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/world ... train.html

Brief passage:

• For the chain-smoking Serbs, Croats and Bosnians toasting one another in the cafe car, the revived passenger line was certainly a sign that their forced isolation from the rest of Europe and the world beyond could be on the verge of ending.

Thomas Cook had a warning in its timetable that travel in former Yugoslavia was hazardous. I suppose it might be improving now, but Serbia is still dodgy, and Bosnia even more so. The Bosnia problem is by no means solved. Basically, its state of "peace" is an armed truce enforced only by EU and NATO forces.