Pastoral Gornji Vakuf-Uskoplje

Here are some pictures I took while on a walk into the country aound our little town. As you can see, it's a lovely country and the weather was quite nice that day. Sadly it's been cold and rainy here for the last little while. In part, these pictures are to help me remember that blue skies do exist.

This is some farmland to the northwest of the town. There's a logging camp around here, on the side of a mountain. Vanessa has some sort of social allergy to them and became quite venemous, we left the area soon.

As you can see, we are in a position slightly elevated from the town. Last night when I got home, I realized that because of cloud and fog cover I couldn't see the mountains around me. It kinda felt like home, as if the reason I couldn't see anything above the trees was because there was only sky. It's a freeing feeling, thinking that you're not surrounded by things you can't get over.

Gornji Vakuf is laid out like a J with this picture taken on the right of the top part of the letter. I live in the bottom centre of the letter. Uskoplje completes the U. Running along the centre of that U is the Vrbas river. This is the third Mosque in the village, I can hear the other two from my bedroom.


This picture was taken from in front of the Centar. the front courtyard is sporatically maintained by some old men with sickles. Further than the courtyard is the main commercial street, where almost all the cafe/bars are located. Further than the street is a park. The park isn't very well populated except for on its parimeter by old men. The park grows increasingly unkept as you get closer to the gray house in the midground. That house is quite uninhabited and lies on the main highway through the town, the road I live on. The mountains in the background are nice to look at too.