Astra Hotel Sarajevo
Zelenih Beretki 9 Sarajevo, 71000, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Sarajevo in the thick of it all
Many people’s mental images of Sarajevo, much like other parts of the former Yugoslavia, is one that is produced through media portrayals of their bloody war in the early 1990s. Elderly babushkas shuffle, hunched and shivering, through rubble-filled streets, while television reporters in flak jackets dodge bombs in front of the camera. After such a powerful and emotionally conflicting experience in Mostar, we embarked on a beautifully serene bus journey through the ...
Cosmopolitan Bosnia (I was shocked too)
... that we retired home to get an early night.
The next morning Tom and I both left the house around the same time though we separated as he had someone he was keen to meet. I made my way down into the town and hopped on pretty much the first tram I found which was going in the right direction. I decided that I wanted to see both the site of the winter Olympics that were held in 1984 and a cemetery that contained many graves of those that died during the early ...
Night out in Sarajevo
... them to a "real" Bosnian bar. We followed them to the same street as our hostel and then into a little room filled with people all drinking beer and rakia. We were there for thirty minutes or so- all of my friends were chatting with each other and I was talking to two of the Bosnian guys for a while. I was really enjoying my time there, but Molly looked about ready to go home and I was starting to feel tired myself at 3 am so we all headed back to the hostel.
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Day 300 - 300 Days of Amazing Adventures
... consider the reason you’re here in the first place. To rekindle the passion and the purpose of what put you on this mission, or placed you in this relationship, or gave start to whatever milestone you’ve embarked upon. Mine was to reevaluate my life, to see the world and all its peoples with my own eyes and form my own impressions, to live and learn while traveling to far unknown lands, and in the process ...



