Took a walk up the mountain to the 12th c. monastery of the local national orthodox church. Took an apparently unconventional turn on the path, and so most of the walk up the mountain was on narrow, winding dirt roads. Much garbage about, so perhaps it was the old road up to the settlement, before the wide asphalt road was laid. Reached it shortly after midafternoon. There was a historical sign near a small wooden door in the wall, but everything was closed, so I walked across the street to a bustling tourist market, with a few (mini)busloads shopping away. Asked one of the staff where the monastery was, and he pointed to the door on the wall. You could look over the wall, so I went over and looked at it for a bit. Presence, not sensory perception. We Catholics have excellent training in this. Then back down, but along the wide road. Paths are always easiest from the destination.
Actually my second time taking the difficult way in recent religious peregrinations. In Mostar, on Good Friday, I had heard that there was a service at the mountaintop cross, so I walked up from the Franciscan monastery, quite a difficult climb, and then met the crowd at the top, who were coming from the wide asphalt path winding up the other side of the mountain.
