10 hours later

Gooo-ooood morning, world.

I nipped that from Good Morning Vietnam, when the ever enthusiastic Robin Williams woke the navy with a shout of life, despite the fact that they were in what I would describe as 'barracks of despair'. I'm not currently writing from a trench, but I thought it a fitting remark to make - to begin this epic journey. 

Firstly, I should just say that I don’t have great access to the internet at present (plus it takes about 37 years to load a page) but I’m hoping to find better access soon. 

Getting here was not as straightforward as I anticipated, but that is mostly due to sleep deprivation. Trains only run twice a day to Sarajevo and I managed to catch the overnight service. I anticipated that it would be a 13 hour journey but it actually only took 10 hours. I seemed to be the only female on the train, and the only foreigner. Needless to say, I didn't quite blend in and was stared at the entire time.

I am currently staying in Dobrinja and will be carefully commuting to Sarajevo city to the main court offices there. I say "carefully" as this is a town right next to the Serb Republic and Federation border. There is nothing much here apart from makeshift graveyards, which are pretty much everywhere that there is space. Where there aren't graves, I have been warned (by almost everyone! - do I look like a foreigner... yes, I suppose I do) that I MUST NOT walk on anywhere that looks suspicious as there are thousands of unexploded mines in the area. I'm thinking....hmnmnnm. Okay.....tell me again how I'm to know if something "looks suspicious"? A bump in the road? A crack in the curb? Discoloured grass?? What? 

Most buildings are either covered in bullet holes or are partly burned. Cant upload any pictures as the internet connection nearly died when I tried to upload a picture. I am hoping to move to Dobrinjske by the end of the week though, and internet access should be better there.