A little behind-the-scenes from my trip to the Bosnian corrida. Might be useful.

This event is run by locals for locals. They promote the fights either on TV or with outdoor ads like in the photo. Accurate information online is hard to find, not just in English but in the local language too.

The original plan was to attend the biggest event — the Grmečka corrida. Even Wikipedia knows about it, saying the fights happen on the first Sunday of August. A week before the trip, it turned out that this year everything suddenly moved to mid-July and had already ended.

That's when I managed to dig up the only resource where anything gets announced at all: koride.ba. But even there they don't post everything. Nothing about Kočičev zbor, which usually happens on the last weekend of August — not a word, even though it's the second most important event.

I miraculously found the organizers' email (yeah, I really wanted to get there), and they sent me where and when to go. And the local press published an approximate schedule.

This year there was also an issue with the venue: the authorities suddenly decided to squeeze money out of the organizers for the land, but they firmly refused to pay anything and went looking for an alternative. In the end, when a new venue was found, they suddenly changed their minds about filling their coffers and held it at the usual place.

Anyway, I still went thinking I'd at least have to ask locals how to get to the bulls, or maybe I wouldn't find it at all. But it worked out.