Hotel Astra Garni Sarajevo

... lot of things we wouldn't have without Arijan's commentary. During the tour Arijan found a bullet in the garden of the mosque that was left over from the war. He was incredibly excited at that as most remnants have been cleaned up by now.<br>The Sarajevo roses scattered around the city are easy to miss if you don't know where to look for them. They are mortar scars in the pavement that have had red wax poured into them to create an explosive ...

... and attack with various weapons. The headquarters was destroyed in the end, and its destruction signaled the end of the war.<br><br>That was really the extent of our "tour". After we went and I got my first taste of Burak, which is awesome! I also got this bizarre feeling that we were being watched. This of course sent Petrov diving for cover and at ...

... running in and told me they weren't going to wait any longer and we had to get on the bus. We ran out - minus sandwiches and feeling very guilty as we couldn't see and didn't have time to tell the waitress that we had to go.<br><br>As we set off again, the sun was beating into the window and it was getting ridiculously hot on the bus. Didn't help that not-so-cute-anymore-just-annoying boy was taking up way too much space and almost leaning against me, radiating even more ...

... war. The bombed out and bullet ridden buildings are few and far between. The one mention of the war that has been imortalized in the city is that some of the bullet holes in the concrete pavement have been left and filled with red wax instead of being repaved. <br><br>We would have loved to spend more time in Bosnia but we found ourselves offered a ride we could not pass up. <br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

... et prendre des photos... j'en profite pour me recueillir un peu alors qu'il est completement disparu... quand je sors, il apparait... par signe, je lui demande s'il est le pretre qui s'occupe de cette chapelle; il me fait signe que oui... je lui signe donc que je suis aussi pretre catholique... il me met la main sur l'epaule en esquissant un grand sourire... voila un moment fort que j'apprecie des voyages: dans cette ville qui a tant souffert de combats fratricides au nom d'une foi ...

... in Sarajevo and the bridge is marked with a sign. But otherwise it is just a bridge, not really something big to see. The only thing would be the feeling of being somewhere historic. I had a pizza-dinner, spend some time on the internett and a coffee shop. That was what I saw of Sarajevo. I took the nightbus to Split, I was in Split at 3 am, so I spent the rest of the night, 4 hours, at the waiting hall at the busstation together with other lost souls. It was 4 long hours.

... down Sarajevo from the mountains it wasn't possible to get any supplies or food into the city. This tunnel solved that problem a bit... people were able to get some food and the Bosnian army received arms. However, it wasn't completely safe. The tunnel got regularly shelled and many people died when trying to fulfill this heroic task. When i got back into the city i decided to head into Bascarsija. One of the oldest parts of the city with a big Turkish influence. The ...

... We were the last ones off the train and we must look every part like the foreigners we felt. In this moment of vulnerability, we met Jasna. Jasna was standing at the platform. She pulled us aside and in halting English, presented us with an offer of 10 Euros per bed if we followed her to her friend's place. Since we had only a slight idea of how to get to the center of town and she was offering us a free ride in, we took the bait. Maybe it was the ...

... on the trip. He says: Mostar was not the most impressive village of the trip, but it was worth spending two half-days and one night there. The old Turkish quarter, with its multi-story stone dwellings fused onto a cliff edge above the river Neretva, appealed to me the most. I found some shops in the narrow cobblestone alleys that were selling antiques and collectibles, but it was mostly brass coffee grinders and communist military paraphenalia. There was one ...

... Went to Mostar Croatia where you have to drive across the moon to get there, but you also pass crystal clear spring fed rivers. Halloween is celebrated by decorating the cemeteries. It was like traveling back in time to the 40s or 50s, but the food was better than home - more wholesome, more natural. Progress isn't always for the better.