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Day Nine
So, we woke up this morning to cats and dogs. Well, just the one cat, huddled under our van, which took a fondness to Danny after it was fed some UHT milk. However, it was raining and so we began the drive to Sarajevo in the thunder and lightening. As Vicky is not insured in Bosnia (although come to that, I'm not a hundred per cent convinced that …
Day Ten - Part I
We start the morning, like any good English tourists, with a coffee-stop. We can't believe our luck in finding a hotel so close to the centre and enjoy a happy half hour watching the tourists, mingling with the locals, who are enjoying their mint tea. Our destination this morning is the Historical Museum and we decide to walk so as to get a flavour …
SNIPER ALLEY, THEN AND NOW
... three scars on his legs. When his mother got home, in his words 'she beat the **** out of me'.
We watched a short video on the shelling of the city and the construction/use of the tunnel. All in all, it was a good tour. Mohammed described the tunnel as the greatest symbol of Sarajevo's resistance.
Returning, it was easy to notice may bullet holes on buildings plastered over. The tram system dates from 1895 and is the second oldest in Europe.
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Istanbul of the West
... tolerance and pluralism.
As a Westerner, I had been making the mistake of recalling "Yugoslavia" as being just another Soviet / Communist regime, and harder to remember that there is significant diversity of any of the republics within, and that Sarajevo/Bosnia was also part of the perceived "Slavic / Russian" state of Yugoslavia. Sarajevo has been a great wakeup call to say that there was more than meets the perception.
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Badass in Bosnia
... it must've been like. 4 years living in constant fear without any supplies, electricity, nothing. I think it was the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. Even now you see how the war has touched people. There are so many people with limps, canes, walking devices and things like that. Its hard to think that it was only 20 years ago. People my age would've been children. The most important formative years of our lives would've been taken away from us. Instead ...