Park Sarajevo

... 8217;t write down notes fast enough to keep up. Giving up, we just drank beer and laughed. <br><br> Kovacs had to run back to work before the boss noticed he was gone, and we stayed and had a few drinks at the Balkan café, the owner talked to us for a bit &#8211; he came up when he noticed us admiring some of the cool artwork on the wall. The café had only been open for a month, and it seemed to be to cool place to hangout for alternative, black rimmed glasses ...

... kebab or anything else, getting a small one, but paying for a big one. This just did not happen in Sarajevo, but also in cities like Travnik. Even at the various buses we traveled with, the driver regularly charged us two to four times the normal price to store our luggage in the cabin. <br><br>The taxi's were a major problem, but i already knew that. In Srebrenica we had to pay about 6 euro to get from the Potocari memorial to the city center. A few minutes drive. In ...

... around because it was too hot to party or do anything. Just stayed on the computer all day and waited it out because it was starting to take a toll out of looking at all these big cities. I want to see beach stuff and waterfalls like I did in Plitvice to recharge my europe battery. That, and just it bugs me that I have to pay for travel in Eastern Europe and that I can't find a salad.<br><br>

... that kept Sarajevo alive was a tunnel they had built under the airport. Which brought in supplies of food, ammunition and oil. The tunnel was only 800m long and on average 1m wide. The war killed at least 10 000 people in Sarajevo, 3000 of them were children.<br><br>A city that was once the centre of the worlds horrified attention is now a safe place again.....that will always carry its scars, even once you can no longer see them.

... building. that someone told me is the tallest in the former yugoslavia. There are other glass twin towers and beautiful residental highrises, but these are in areas away from the crumbling, destroyed buildings. It is possible to take a picture with beautiful glass buildings in the background with a wreak in the front. It really is an attestment to the potential of the Bosnia future, but also the the remembrance of the past. Especially with the snow fall ...

... going crazy all night. It was great to see and experience. I have visited a lot of other bars and clubs... here's a complete list: Hacienda Havana Barka Pirat Kiborg Quadro Central Club Jez (nice underground club with electro,minimal,house, but also traditional music) Tabu Alfonso Club Boemie (nice underground club with electro,minimal,house) Club Retro Club Incognito Colosseum Club. City Pub (very crowded) And close to the National Theatre square ...

... turists around, but during the film and jazz festival in the summer city is going to be full, I heard. Music scene is powerfull and I happened to meet an old musician who took me around to show music museum and told stories about him carrier and life. I felt odd how musician representing different relion are so openly using traditional costumes from another religion. Katolic ...

... Finally arrived in Sarajevo about 9.45pm where we found a taxi to our hostel (as not sure about where to go - a real rip off as 10 euroes but we were in no position to negotiate in a dodgy train station!). Ended up finding the place fairly easily - its basically a home where the top floor has been converted for ppl to stay. Bit expensive at 15 euro a night but in good location (despite being up on a hill) and safe and warm with free laundry. Today has been our explore ...

... of the toilet handle. Our room had no lock. The closet containing the toilet had no lock. The shower/kitchen/laundryroom had no lock... it did however have the tattered remnant of a shower curtain covering only half of a window that opened up onto a view of the area of town known as "sniper's alley," where so many people were gunned down while trying to flee the city. Also, we were a half hour walk from the old town (we were told it was 5 minutes). We did have some luck ...

... spent wandering the cities and taking in the sights and people. We've spent less time going to specific museums or monuments and more just soaking up the culture. In our walking the city (Sarajevo center is a very walkable city) we did come across the Latin Bridge, which is the infamous site where Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914, thus sparking the events that led to WWI. We also wandered up on the hills above Sarajevo and looked out ...