Hostel & Guest House Bistrik Sarajevo

... unable to sleep on the flight, so he resorted to watching 3 movies while Craig slept all the way -- only waking up for drinks and dinner service (the sleeping pills really work). The movies Efren watched were "I Love You Man", "Duplicity" and "Desperaux" The only one worth his time was the first one, the other two were as expected a movie to watch in the middle of the night while you are trying to fall asleep.<br><br>The menu for this flight was an ...

... and invited us to sit down with the other old guys for a beer.<br><br>He told us his story about how he'd lived in Zepa, been put in a camp with 800 others when the Serbians came in. Their releases had been negotiated somehow, couldn't quite get that detail out since his English was rough and he'd been on the beers all day.<br><br>He and about 100 others from the camp were released and sent to Australia, mostly to Perth or Adelaide. <br><br>He'd spent years in Adelaide working in a ...

... br>Some sidewalks still have what are now called the "Sarajevo Roses". They are holes and craters made in the ground from the impact of mortar shells during the shellings. Its like a splatter of little holes. Holes, which, after the war, were filled with red cement (genius), and looked like flowers on the sidewalk, but the red cement wasn't meant to represent roses. Another reminder.<br><br>After most of the day of walking and being exhausted, I rerurned to the hostel ...

I am currently in Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo the capital it really is a lovely city. I left Belgrade at 7 in the morning on the bus which was due to take 7 hours. The journey was fine apart from the police on the Bosnian side took up another one of my vaulable passport pages with there stamp, I wish there was ain international law that said you have to start from the beggining of the book and work your way to the end if would be so much easier and ...

... was laughing at me. I thought it was because I was cheap, although I thought I had done a relatively good job using up the last of my marks. Later on the bus, a bosnian that spoke perfect english because he had lived in chicago for 12 years said that it was because the bus driver didnt really care THAT much about 2 marks. Should have told me when I was ripping my bag apart. But we were on our way, from snowy, frozen dark city, to tropical, warm paradise.

... reactýon. The old lady knew ýt was MArleyse who was hesýtant so she started yellýng 'You crazy lady. You crazy lady' at Marleyse whýle we boarded the bus. It was a good call from Marlyse. Thýs lady obvýously had mental ýssues (and needed a bath). The bus rýde took us to the old town. We walked to the maýn square and started askýng around for accomodatýons. After about 5-10 mýnutes, a young guy approached us and asked ýf we wanted to stay at ...

... Not when Bosnian letters resemble UFOs... Consequently, I couldn't begin to tell you what places we actually went through, or where any of these photos are actually from, but I think the obscurity of the giant haystacks frequenting ...

... There is a wonderful park with wooden bridges traversing meandering streams. Small waterfalls tumbled down and ducks and other waterfowl swam about making bit of a racket. We spotted a magnificent swan swimming in a pond and then decided it was time for some lunch. Lucky for us there was a café open in the middle of the park. We went in and there was a welcoming open fire in the centre of the room. We took a seat beside it and ordered some soup ...

... one thinks war is on the agenda, and no one frets at all that hilltop construction activity. Then in 1992 the Serbs start a propaganda campaign warning of Islamists posing danger to people who are ethnically Serb in Bosnia. Ethnically Serb turns out to be a bogus term by the way... its just a shorthand for your religious group. If you identify with the Orthodox Church, you are "ethnically Serb" or a "Bosnian Serb". If you live in Bosnia but see yourself as ...

... Serbs, with a large portion of the population being Muslim. During the early part of the war, the Muslims and Croats banded together to drive out the Serb forces when they attacked the city, but this alliance did not last and they soon turned on each other. The bridge became a target for the Croat artillery as the town had become divided with Muslims on one side of the river and Croats on the other, the bridge being the only link between them. For ...