Hotel Kovaci Sarajevo

... small bus for such a tall race) so when the immigration official looked at the passports, he didn’t collect Milli’s to be stamped, but he did take mine, and some other foreigners, which annoys Milli greatly as she wanted the stamp as proof she had visited. I on the other hand am quickly running out of pages in my passport and could have done without the guy stamping on one of my few remaining blank pages, instead of squeezing it in on some of the half ...

... a mixture of scents including: brewery, old man b.o and lust, all coming from yours truly.<br>Late in the afternoon I collapsed on my hostel bed, glad to find my slice of home in my first stop around the Balkans. I took a walk through the old town centre and was instantly sure that I had made the right decision to direct my travels in this rather vague region. It is such a unique little city!<br>Having been subject to so many wars and ...

... wars as Princip was a Serb. We ate that night at 'To Be or Not To Be', a tiny, tiny restaurant in the Ottoman quarter that seats about 6 people.   We were the only people there when we arrived and the waitress had to text the chef who was in a cafe down the road. He duly arrived and proceeded to cook our meals less than ten foot from where we sat. It did take some of the mystique out of Jie's seafood spaghetti when the mixed ...

... reason. And not being prepared, I had no map of the city, and no idea where the tram station was. I was lucky that there was a cash machine in the station and some that understood the expression "One euro equals how MANY marcs?". Turns out it was 2, incase your interested. I also had noticed that a few little tents, or coffee shops were open, probably because they knew that there was nothing that we could do except to just drink coffee and wait around ...

I am now three days into the festival and it is awesome! I arrived last Saturday around 16:00 at Sarajevo Airport. When our plane landed we were greeted by a firetruck which started to hose our plane. The pilot said that we shouldn't be scared of the truck... "It is a typical way to welcome new visitors to Sarajevo". Funny... Note: There is no public transport to and from Sarajevo airport. Do not take a taxi to the city center, you will pay too much. (20 ...

... which was a one room museum focusing on the assassination of the Franz Ferdinand and his wife. It was in my opinion the perfect museum --- cheap (75c), concise, and to the point. The next day I headed over to the Holiday Inn, which was built for the Winter Olympics in 1984, but is now a symbol of the city because it was the wartime home of international journalists as well as being on the street known as 'Sniper ...

... best of it on CHristmas day however, chilling in our very comfortable hostel. Christmas dinner was fun, ended up having dinner with about 7 ppl in the hostel wearing funny christmas and st pats hats. Enjoyed trying some vodka shots given by the hostel called mad dogs - consist of rasberry cordial, vodka and tabasco sauce. Yikes, they had a kick! Spent the afternoon relaxing and having a last trip to the xmas markets before heading off across the road to the train station ...

... have Serbia on our side, the Croats have Croatia on their side, Muslims have no one, but Turkey..and where is turkey? Apparantly they get on most of the time, as they have nothing to do with each other- excdept in Sarajevo where they get drubnk and fight I also liked the mosques, although most Bosniaks are only nominally muslim- drinkinjg alcohol, eating pork e.tc, i did see some more conservative muslims though, which may be saudi influence.

... exploring the city. Unlike Mostar, Sarajevo has worked hard to cover up most of the marks of the three-year long seige that destroyed huge areas of the city and resulted in the deaths of more than 11, 000 people in the mid-1990s. Most of the buildings have been patched and repainted, and there are signs of construction everywhere, although if you look closely there are still a few buildings with bullet-holes or signs of war damage around. We arrived at ...

... this must have something to do with people waking up from the nightmare of some years ago; then again, these Bosnians are insane, indulgent, genuine folks and probably always were.<br><br>One *********** that no other self-respecting imbecile should have to stumble into: you have to buy tickets for the trams or you will get nailed. Beth and I made the mistake of thinking we would pay an attendant or something ...