Hotel Marsal Sarajevo

... made the right move by spending more time in Mostar that in Sarajevo. We saw the bridge where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assisinated which started World War I, got some amazing deals on some clothes, and toured some mosques. After a couple hours of walking in the pouring rain, we decied to buy some beers at the grocery store and head back to the hostel. As we looked at the map, Brandon realized that while he got the locations of many of ...

... Sarajevo" with a hint of distaste. Later I would see why. She went on to explain this neighborhood was not suitable for a trolley line.

After she asked around I was pointed in the right direction and found the trolleybus line which is just basically a regular bus with a thing that sticks up to touch the wires for power. It's basically a trackless tram but in citybus form. Of course here city bus form requires revisiting the 1940s.

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... the tour we wanted to do here so decided it was worth staying an extra night to be able to do that. The man that helped out at the office piled us into his car and drove us to our Bosnian Nana's house which was very much like you were staying at your Grandma's house in her spare room. She didn't speak any English and we kept trying to tell that was all we could speak. She would keep spilling out these long sentences to us that we would just smile at apologetically to and ...

... as the Ukrainians – my CS host told me that he won’t want to live in other Muslim countries because he "will not be able to drink and look at the women". I came here, thinking that I would learn more about it and eventually understand how and why it became this way but after talking to a number of locals I am more confused than ever, because each of them told me a different story, depending on their ethnic backgrounds and their outlooks, and ...

... of all, we stayed at a Hostel called Haris Hostel. This place was not the nicest place in the world and only had one shower. However, we are not sure we have stayed in a hostel with so many great, like-minded travelers. People were great to provide help, suggestions and thoughts. We heard that Haris's city tour was great, but he did not have enough people for the first day we were in the city which we were sad to hear (because we wanted to see the city and we were finding it hard ...

... people used for transporting food, people and weapons in and out of during the 40 something months Sarajevo was surrounded. We then got a bit of a rundown on the war from Haris which was very helpful in understanding what went on. We then went up to the mountains to see the old bobsled track for the 1984 winter Olympics passing the people searching for landmines on the mountains on the way up. It was pretty cool and had a few holes bashed through to use as a shield ...

... finally gets quiet, I got frightened. Who to talk now that I feel low, but dont want to go to Zevinići for parties? All the fuzz is making me depressed. Right now I feel like I am a button to play with. I dont have an actual plan of work or role in here. I am doing my best to find my task in the space and time. One wild night in recent history, I was accidently started reading from peoples palms. And now that is all I can hear about. There are ...

... we ended up with about 4-5 people i think. I got some more dvds, music, pictures and a lot of email addresses and telephone numbers. "When you will be here again, please call us. We will arrange a sleeping place for you and tour you around" AHHH, Bosnian people! Really friendly... The Bosnian people (i of course already knew, because i have been in Bosnia two times before) are one of the kindest i EVER met in my life. I am considered a king here. Some small notes: The train ...

... I would recommend Mr. Gogo and Mrs. Taiba Halilovices place. They live on Mehmed Pase Sokolovica 12, 3rd floor which is 2 blocks north of the Roman Cathedral. It+s very close to the action, has cable, clean comfortable and airy rooms. Please call their agent Amela at 00387 (0)61 917-009 for pension availability since they speak little English. Their full address is 71000 Sarajevo, R Bosna, Hercegovina. Home tele is 00387 33 207-721 or mobile 061-516-966

... Vimos la Llama Eterna que conmemora a las victimas de la Segunda Guerra. Encontramos un museo muy curioso por casualidad, el Museo de las relaciones rotas. Son donaciones, fotos y objetos con sus nombres y fechas y las historias de como la relacion se rompio. Que mono y que triste! Senalar de nuevo que la gente es muy amable y servicial. Una tarde estabamos desesperados buscando una libreria de ocasion para cambiar ...