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WHERE EAST MEETS WEST
... had a beer. Sarajevska is locally brewed, our later guide Mohammed saying its quality has diminished with a recent change in ownership. Better than the Serbian offering but not high marks overall. Mobile phones should be banned on trips, losers Gavin and Bozo Ben ignorantly on them. Bozo Ben was asking Zsolt about our departure time from Sarajevo three days away: dumb de dumb dumb.
Went to a bridge over the barely running Miljacka River where we met the very affable ...
History in Sarajevo
... there were two beds left (I got a taxi with a guy from the old hostel who was also looking for a place) so we managed to get them. The hostel was called 'travellers home' and it was really great with big rooms, a proper kitchen and a lovely owner. After settling in I made myself some soup from the packets available for free in the hostel (another plus) and had that for a late lunch. I then chilled some ...
A Day in Sarajevo Bosnia
... with the names and numbers of the famous Bosnian-Herzogovinian players. Elvira also pointed out a famous restaurant Pod Lipom (under the lime tree) that Bill Clinton went to and that she recommended highly so several of us made a mental note to try to get back there as well.
The tour ended at the eternal flame in the more modern part of the old town that has Austro-Hungarian Empire influence on the architecture. Elvira pointed out ...
Caffienation & elevation
... coffee and a few chapters. Dinner at the Bosnia House (http://www.bosanskakuca.com/#) begins with a tasty dish of thinly sliced beef tongue with horseradish and a bowl of Shepherd's Salad -- diced tomato, red pepper, cucumber, onion, a hot yellow pepper and topped with grated cheese. The kebab that follows -- veal, beef and chicken, with grilled vegetables and lemon sections -- provides for a long and thoughtful chew as the meat including ...
Sarajevo in the thick of it all
... that had unfolded on a busy thoroughfare? – but perhaps the politics of death is affected by memory, and of bodies lying in the streets a regular feature of daily life in recent memory. This was a sight that perhaps represented a peculiar culture of death; one in which the recent experience of mass death still hangs thickly in the air.
Despite the difficult memories, Sarajevo remains a city full of life too. Elsewhere in the city, in the shadow of the ...
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