ROM Southeast Europe Trail of Friendship 2012 Slideshow

The 2012 ROM Trail of Friendship across Southeast Europe, throughout the month of July, was the most amazing trip undertaken by the Forum for Leadership and Reconciliation (FLR) and Renewing Our Minds (ROM) team consisting of Martha S. Weiss, Brett McMichael, Minela Pervanovic, Mihaela Kovacs, Bojan Ruvarac, Marko Stupar and Tihomir Kukolja. The purpose of the journey was to meet the ROM and EDS (Economic Diplomacy Seminar) alumni, and their families and friends, as well as to meet new friends; and to be a source of encouragement to all of them. Likewise, our intention was to receive a valuable input from former ROM and EDS participants about the impact ROM and EDS (Economic Diplomacy Seminar) still has on their lives. All the travelling team members felt that the trip was actually a ROM Gathering taking place in a different way. We called the trip – “Brining ROM to our friends where they are”. The 25 days of travelling were crowded with amazing experiences, joy, excitement and good surprises. We met 200 friends, eat with them, talked with them, asked them many questions, visited them at their places of work and service, and stayed in the homes of some of them. We were warmly received by everyone we had visited, and enjoyed great acts of hospitality where we went. Plus, we would occasionally have some unexpected experiences and encounters that spiced our journey with humor and surprise. This album features a photo essay covering our journey across the Southeast Europe in 25 days, between Sunday July 1 and Monday July 9, during which time we visited Zagreb and Osijek in Croatia; Novi Sad and Belgrade in Serbia; and Timisoara, Sigishoara, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest and Romania; Sofia in Bulgaria; Leskovac in Serba; Sarajevo and Tuzla in Bosnia-Herzegovina; Pristina, Mitrovica and Prizren in Kosovo; Skopje, Tetovo and Ohrid in Macedonia; Tirana in Albania; Orahovac, Kotor, Niksic and Podgorica in Montenegro; and finally Fuzine in Croatia.