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WHERE EAST MEETS WEST
... Zsolt was leaving, he whispered 2-3 euro tip for his friend. His act is wearing a little thin.
Mohammed is gregarious, a roly poly figure, with very pale green eyes. He has been doing tours here for 10 years. Temperature-wise this year, Sarajevo has gone from -27C to 44C. The Balkan War killed 11,541 civilians. The city is 85% Muslim. Gavin, change shampoos: nice dandruff!
Mohammed's walking tour was better than that of Boyanna, in part due to the fact he was ...
History in Sarajevo
... chatted with the other people in the hostel, one aussie/Englishman who has been travelling for 18months(!) and two americans living in prague. After a while I went for a wander through the town with them and we did the city tour which was interesting and even moreso when it started pouring down. Afew people got umbrellas so naturally the rain stopped which was nice. We learnt about the history of the ...
A Day in Sarajevo Bosnia
... including the first secondary school. She had mentioned that the mosque school was very strict and only the most orthodox Bosnians sent their girls there - or boys, either, for that matter. There was no smoking, no drinking, the girls were fully covered. She said that it was ironic since the girls especially rebelled afterward and did everything they weren't supposed to do.
After the tour ended, we looked for the Pod Lipom and Tee, ...
Caffienation & elevation
... is rare enough to put up a good fight. Across the way, I watch as a man munching on a piece of bread talks at great length on a cell phone being held to his ear by a friend. Hands-free calling Sarajevo style. I stop for a vanilla ice cream cone on the way back to the hotel and savor it along the twilight blue streets until I reach The Central where in keeping with the musical time warp I have landed in, Enya's 'Orinoco Flow' fills the ...
Sarajevo in the thick of it all
... wash of a huge Orthodox church, a gaggle of feisty, animated old men were playing giant chess in the park, gesticulating wildly or standing in silent thought in the midst of their game. Even at night, the streets are rarely silent: a night-time walking tour of the city led us through busy streets, with the guide stopping occasionally to chat with friends that we bumped into. Keen to show us a city on the up, her energy was tangible despite the bitter cold of ...
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