Grand Sarajevo

... br>My afternoon was spent wandering the streets, there is a big cafe culture here and even late into the evening, you'll see people, well dressed, but drinking non-alcoholic drinks.


I had heard about the 'Sarajevo Rose' which are the remnants of the bomb/mortar attacks on the streets/pavements that had been filled in with pink cement, I went in search of these and only found a ...

... for a drink or two. We wandered around a bit and ended up at a place that seemed to have a few people in it called City Bar. Stopped there for a beer then decided it was probably too early for any kind of nightlife to really be happening. As we had to be up just after 5am to get our train to Budapest, we decided to head home. We drifted off to sleep with the sounds of some local Bosnian boys somewhere nearby singing drunkenly at the top of their lungs to songs we couldn't understand....

... of the procession leading up to the assassination, clothes the killer was wearing, the bullet, and gun!

We decided to extend our stay in Sarajevo instead of trying to make it to Zagreb in a rush. We enjoyed walking along the shop-lined streets. Very Turkish influenced - lots of rug shops, coffee and tea sets, tobacco pipes, and so much jewelery! Really gorgeous gold and silver rings, earrings, and necklace designs.

... light. I was freezing, even with my jacket so in my clearest voice, I asked one of the coffeeshop owners for an espresso and whatever he recommend to eat. He pulled out this thing called a pee-ta or something of the like, which is like a hot crossiant stuffed with some sort of hot sweet cheese. It was extremely messy. We had a little conversation, or what I can only assume was a conversation. He talked all bosnian and I talked all english. Not a word of ...

... years earlier became the position for Serb artillery and snipers and the city turned to rubble. Sarajevo still stands strong and despite all the differences and trouble the locals remain united no matter of their differences in race or religion. The city is like East meets West, old meets new. Definitely another highlight of the trip.

... middle of the city center. When night arrives Club 75 will explode with rock, punk and progressive notes. On Saturday we will make the whole main street rocking with stage outdoors in the middle of the Saturday night act. Bars and cafes spill out on streets. It is an invitation to stay up past bedtime! City has unusual but attractive settings for listening music outdoors with beautiful landscape and hilly backdrop the ...

Hi Well, this will be a bit of a abbreviated entry (and partially plagarised from Julia!) as just lost a big long one as the internet crashed. Trio to Auschwitz was very sobering and sad of course. It was also freezing which really brought home the horro of it all. The salt mines in the afternoon were a bit of a change of pace, and were amazing. We walked down steps equivalent to 60 stories to see carving of all sorts of things and even several chapels made entirely out of ...

... shots that began communism (without world war 1 the russian revolution may never have happened- we'll never know) and the shots in the last battle in its collapse (the break up of yugoslavia) were fired in and around the city. I did notice only the big cities had railway stations- the train also just stopped in the iddle of nowhere to let school kids on and stuff. The people were exceptionally friendly (although they chain smoke like no ...

... mezquitas, las sinagogas y otros templos iluminados. Llegamos a Sarajevo a las 23'00, con un hotel reservado pero ni idea de como encontrarlo. Un taxista nos llevo al que creiamos que era pero no, es que tenian el mismo nombre. Despues de andar y andar y sin querer renunciar pues perderiamos nuestro dinero preguntamos a la poca gente que vimos. Todos tan amables! Lo encontramos al final, ya mas de medianoche. En la puerta decia ...

... most stunning mountain landscapes in Eastern Europe. Who knew? * * Scattered plans to meet up with Beth finally led us both to Sarajevo on Friday night, both of us a bit weary from travel and caught up in the strange twilight zone of having met in such a foreign place. This is miles away from the sunny Adriatic coastline. Somehow though, it's also the most real and captivating place I have visited on this trip thus far. Woke up at 5 a.m. in Elma and Zolin ...