“Slow, slow wanders the train, past minarets and mosques, out onto the plains where women dressed in black work in fields that are as neat as a grave on the day of its digging. There are plum trees and pear trees, half-built churches and telegraph poles that wait for the new season’s storks.”

By Nicky Gardner, writing about spring in northern Bosnia in the May 2008 issue of hidden europe magazine (page 15). Courtesy of hidden europe magazine (www.hiddeneurope.co.uk).