Radon Plaza Sarajevo

... 8217;t write down notes fast enough to keep up. Giving up, we just drank beer and laughed.

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 – 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 ...

... taxi prices were 10 - 20 euro from the main bus / railway station to the city center. Luckily in Sarajevo there are trams as well.. I never really had a problem with those until this year...

We got on a tram just outside the center. (we were dropped off by some Bosnian friends after a visit to Konjic) Inside the tram we bought a ticket from the driver. For some reason he first had to make a phone call, so we waited for him to finish. When he hang up we got to ...

After a beautiful ride through the Yugoslavian countryside, we arrived in Sarajevo. The town is set along a river in the Bosnian mountains and was home to the 1984 winter olympics, which the town still notes as their claim to fame. The city has a really cool Turkish old quarter complete with old mosques, churches, synagogue, shops, and restaurants. We stayed at some locals house named Tarik above the old quarter. Upon ...

People in Bosnia and Hercegovina seem really friendly, it wasn't just the impression Bata, Majda and her family left with us, we met a really old Bosnian on the train, he spoke very little English but just wanted to have a chat with us when ever he could think of the words.

For a city that has suffered, Sarajevo still has a great heart, well once you get away from the train station anyway. It is amazing how much it has recovered so quickly compared to Mostar. You ...

... a beautiful LCD plasma tv, with a huge selection of copied DVDs. Of course, other hostelers where just as interested in the past as me, and they put in a movie called Dead Mans Land, a movie about a bosnian troop and a serbian troop. I had a tough time getting into it, because the kitchen was so far, and I was busy cooking pasta and running back and forth between the computer, checking emails, doing blogs. These things arent funnest thing to do during a ...

Last two days i stayed at Hostel Posellipo. What a change. I had a private room for the same price, 15 euro. No more annoying people walking in and out and a good night rest. Aug 20 at night saw me going to Club Jez. They had some traditional Bosnian party going on and it was very nice. the place was packed with Bosnians. No tourists. Everyone was singing along and jumping around. I also had a bad dinner last night. The menu was called 'cheerful Bosnian' and it was at ...

Sarajevo reminded me a lot from Helsinki. It was a bit dusty, odd atmosphere but I felt like I belonged there. I could easily think about doing exchange studies in Sarajevo from a year or so. And I think its a perfect location too. In The Shade its around +40 Celsius degrees. I dont want to be complaining since I know its getting worse. I wonder how much does that make in the ...

... day. It is actually a very beautiful city, much nicer than Budapest or even Krakow. Surrounded on three sides by very high mountains and covered in snow, there is still a lot of battle scarred buildings but much has now been revitalised. The ppl are also really nice and speak mostly speak English very well. There are amazing churches Catholic, Orthadox Christian and Muslim - everywhere you turn. There is also a really strong turkish influence everywhere and we have been ...

... a really cool pub, the walls of which were crammed with various historical objects including decorative hardware from the 1924 Paris Olympics, old carte de visites of Sarajevan citizens, and iron struts from treadle-powered Singer sewing machines. We were also lucky to find a really good restaurant where each meal was prepared by the same woman night after night and Michelle was rewarded with an honest to goodness selection of vegetables, so hard to find in the Balkans ...

... the city. We perched ourselves on the base remains of what must have been a fortress tower. From this vantage point it became more obvious the damage that the war wrought on Sarajevo. The city center sits in a valley surrounded by hills from which the Serbian Army rained down destruction during the three year siege on the city. On every hill we could see massive graveyards filled with white headstones. Each cemetery we could see was huge, and from our ...