Hotel Villa Orient Sarajevo

... one of their classes in medical school. They were Muslim so their idea of partying centered around drinking coke and talking about school and nothing more exciting than that. Next, we met two more girls who were studyzing to become doctors as well. These girls seemed to be the equivalant in Muslim of a Christamas and Easter Catholic (CE Catholic) as they both were drinking alcohol and were much more fun than the other girls...I found it ...

... paper makes an imprint. She went on to explain this for ten minutes. And loudly I might add so everyone at each stop could stare at me and shake their heads. Whatever lady. If that made your day, so be it!<br><br>I found the hostel that had come recommended and got the last bed they would have for the day. And it was only 7:30am by this point. I was told it would be available at 1pm but luckily they let me shower and relax there in the meantime.<br ...

... came out to cheerfully greet us so figured it really was none of my business and just left it.<br><br>For the first part of the tour we were driving out through the city into the outskirts near the airport where the lifesaving Tunnel was built by the Bosnians during the war. It went on for 800m under the airport and was used to take supplies and weapons into the beseiged city and get injured people out. The Serbians had them surrounded on most of the mountain ranges except for the ...

... the Austrian prince, Ferdinand, was assassinated, the incident sparked the WWI, and the 500 years old masque; but mostly we went to see the signs of the last civil war and the siege, which included dozens of new cemeteries, one of which was next to the former Winter Olympic stadium, where hundreds of new graves are found (the war killed 300k, 10% of the population; 100k of them were from Sarajevo; about 2 millions citizens became internal refugees ...

... go on Haris's tour! Yea! So glad because he helped us understand from a local's perspective what it was like to live in Sarajevo during the war. First of all, you have to know that Haris is only 20. He started the hostel when he was about 15, and it was the 3rd Hostel in all of Bosnia. They say the war ended childhoods early, and Haris is a perfect example of that. He is friendly but also means all business too. We would say he has done a great job of making a name for himself ...

... to a very old Bosnian house converted into a museum before going for a cevap for lunch. We asked if there was something else we should try as we had it yesterday and Haris said "not really, did you have it with cream cheese" "no" "then you need to have again anyway" And it was pretty good. We also went out to the main street where the town hall is. it was used as the national library during the war but was bombed and about 2 million books destroyed, "they wanted to ...

... of the city. We were staying in the home of a Bosnian family...the lady was so clean and fastidious about keeping everything in order and clean! The house used to be on the battlefront, its amazing to hear how they lived back then. Went out for a late lunch and I had Sataras, a rice dish with red capsicum, tomato, onion and paprika...fantastic!! We had a local guide, Mohammed, meet us for our guided tour of the town. He is the same age ...

... where I dared Chad to say "baby kitties" with a big smile in response to gypsies babbling for money for their starving children (who are eating bags of chocolate covered raisins I noticed and pointed that out to them and of course they offered me some). It's nonsense and crazy but funny when you say that in response to someone not speaking ...

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Across the border into Bosnia. We didn't really know what to expect from Sarajevo but as we'd be arriving at 10:30pm we had made the effort to book ahead so that we'd have somewhere to sleep. Just as well, as it was pi**ing it down. Delighted to get to Sarajevo bus station (2km outside town) at 11:30, deserted apart from the usual dodgy people that inhabit bus stations at midnight, we managed to flag down a taxi. After showing the driver the hostel confirmation and a 'thrilling ...