Bus from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik

So our plan from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik was supposed to take us to the city of Mostar in Bosnia for a few hours first. Unfortunately, it seems life wanted to throw us a curveball for this one. The lady at the train station in Bosnia was so helpful for getting us two separate tickets for Sarajevo to Mostar and then Mostar to Dubrovnik. It just wasn't what I was expecting. The first thing that caught me funny was that the bus was actually just a large van with seating for 13 and standing room for 2, assuming no large amounts of luggage. It was amusing. The 'bus' had many stops and people would come and go, paying as they got on the bus. About 30-45 minutes in, we passed by a landslide that had occured. Police had the 2 lane road down to one as they cleared the road. The reaction of the woman next to me as our driver talked to the police suggested to me that somebody had been injured. Moving along though, we continue and begin to follow a river with misty hill tops. It was very pretty but pretty soon it began sprinkling. This would eventually become the storm that accosted us our first night in Dubrovnik. Anyway, about an hour in to the trip to Mostar and what turned out to be 45 minutes from Mostar, the traffic slows down and comes to a complete stop. People are turning around ahead of us and our driver gets out, lights a cigarette and starts jabbering with some other drivers. One of our passengers actually gets out and starts walking down the line of cars, which disappears around the corner of the mountain. Our driver gets in, pops a U and we head back. I wondered what we were going to do about the other guy and also how I hadn't noticed any other signs or way to get to Mostar. Our driver pulls off at a restaurant on the river. There doesn't seem to be any town associated with this restaurant. He says something to us all and gets out.

Jeff goes up to our driver after about 10 minutes of us pacing and wondering what is going on. He tries English first but the driver doesn't speak it so he trys German. Bingo. Turns out German is your next bet after English in Bosnia. Anyway there was another landslide and we might be at this restaurant for a couple hours! Our layover in Mostar was only a couple hours but seeing as how there was nothing we could do, we got espressos and then some food along with the other passengers. I bet that waiter wasn't expecting that much work right then! We keep our eye on our driver and a little over an hour later he head motions to us and we carry right on to Mostar. Luckily the bus we were going to connect with was also delayed (for the same reason? most likely) and so we did not miss our connection to Dubrovnik. That bus was uneventful. Pictures to follow in the future. Prost!