Italia Sarajevo

Shane says:
Our chariot to Bosnia turned out to be a rattling old Minibus, but I had a water and Burek ready for the trip, so I could have been travelling via donkey and I still would have been happy. Burek (and in general, potato and bread heavy Croatian cuisine) is not good for our waistlines, and we are turning into little porkers. C'est la vie)

It wasn’t long until we reached the immigration post at the border. The Croatian authorities had a ...

... 3 and I was oblivious to the fact that there was no alarm set to aid me in my
task of making the 6.20am easybus to Gatwick airport. Somehow I woke at 6am and groggily through everything into my backpack. I bolted out the door and waved the next cab down that I could see. Somehow he got me there and I then spent the next 9 hours in either transit or in the air. Both options saw me sitting next to innocent bystanders who had to put up ...

... items, and Burek - delicious, meat-filled pastry (Jie developed quite an addiction).   


We slopped over to the Latin Bridge where history changed irrevocably on 28th June 1914 when Gavrilo Princip shot and killed the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, sparking WWI.   There is a small but interesting museum at the site - and there used to be a plaque on the pavement showing Princip's footprints but this was torn up during the ...

... other language was spoken by either of us. Im pretty sure that we were talking about completely opposite things. But it was fun, and you dont often times get to "talk" to someone who understands absolutely nothing that you tell him. Finally a young girl came in and interpreted. She cleared up ALL my problems, including even where I could catch a bus to dubrovnik, speaking as an interpreter between me and the old man. He was quite a well informed guy ...

... 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 ...

... of Mediterranean and Alpine landscape and climates. Regions biodiversity is richer than anywhere in the Europe. Bosna faces started it history with Etno Performance -festival in 2006 in Banoviči. Last year Vanity Ink (FIN), Poppa Joe King (FIN), Mad Ice (FIN), Blacksmith (Tuzla), Aquarius (Banovici), Impuls (Banovici), Grupa Do (Doboj), Koka Koma (Lukavac) and many more played there way to the hearts of the audience.

... and there,s were heaps of Polish people on skiing holidays. The wait was worth it however, it was a sunny day and the view was breathtaking. We could see all the way into Slovakia and also across Poland. The 24th was quiet, did a bit of shopping and stocked up as shops were closing at 3pm not to reopen until the 27th. We had hoped to have a nice christmas meal out but everything was closed even on christmas eve, whch is when the main celebrations happen in Poland. We made ...

... such a nice bloke, from a race that committed massacres (well both sides did) across the former balkans, and yet smiles, and offers cigerettes e.t.c, how do people like that become genocidal maniacs-nationalism is strong amongst them, I suppose thats it. The future of Bosnia, sadly,looks grim- it is currently two nations in one state and its just a matter of time before war begins again in my opinion. I suspect it will be big. Ivan- We ...

We arrived in Sarajevo after a beautiful train trip through valleys and along rivers to discover that somehow the temperature had dropped by 25 degrees Celcius between Mostar and Sarajevo, and after weeks of solid sunshine we had arrived in the city just in time for monsoon season. It basically hasn't stopped raining during our entire three days in Sarajevo, but it was almost a relief after months of heat and humidity, and didn't deter us from getting out ...

... about Sarajevo. Two nights spent here was clearly not enough, and by the end of our stay, we could sense a kind of addictive, buzzing energy that might have magnetized us for weeks. To the east of the city center is the historic Turkish quarter known as Bascarsija, a circuit of cobbled streets and small restaurants emanating thick fiery smoke from brick ovens, the smell of nargileh (Turkish shisha pipes) and beautifully dense, black, Turkish coffee ...