Holiday Inn Belgrade

... than the cost of a taxi. What a godsend that was, as we were all exhausted. On the way in the driver showed us the Holiday Inn that was famous during the Balkans war, we drove down Sniper Alley, and he showed us the Library/City Hall, a glamorous ...

... the same direction as me so we went to the bus station and got our tickets for a night bus. We stopped by and saw the Holiday Inn (it was the only functioning hotel during the war and had all the journalists) and the History Museum on the way back. The ...

Feeling very grateful for the opportunity to have travelled with Branimir today - to have learnt so much about a human being I never met before this week. To have heard such real emotions and stories about somebody else's life; someone who has had ...

 I met some friends and had lunch together. saw a old school friend who lives in north belgrade. ...

Tjoho nu har Jakob och jag badat i ett badhus som får sitt vatten från heta källor här i Belgrade. Stället vi badade på heter Bozeman hot springs. Till en början ser det ut som ett vanligt badhus, men ganska snart ändrar man uppfattning. De har ...

I flew from Novi Sad to Belgarde in less then 2 hours. i recomend you go on a expensive flight because the cheap ones are REALLY ...

... after hearing about how important it was Sarajevo during the war was quite special. Went and had pints in the lounge of the Holiday Inn, which was were all the international press stayed during the seige, and got shelled as well.   Í´m pretty ...

... the war and explaining various landmarks. We happened to be walking down the old "Sniper Alley" and past the famous Holiday Inn. Brace for history lesson! Bosnia was initially part of the old Yugoslavia and Sarajevo was quite prosperous, even being ...

... busy man... From Belgrade, we drove to Sarajevo.  We entered the city this morning via Sniper alley and past the holiday inn where all the journalists stayed during the war.  The city itself is an incredible mix of Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman ...

... often prone to flooding. Inside the museum, we watched a short DVD about the conflict (one section showing a shell hitting the Holiday Inn) before venturing down into the tunnel itself. Running for only twenty metres now, Michael and I walked along its ...

... contrast to Mostar, Sarajevo has been almost completely rebuilt.  While many of the famous areas are still identifiable, such as the holiday inn where many reporters were holed up, the damage isn't visible.  We take a war tour in the afternoon, ...

... set off WW I, not the Scottish band I saw live a week previous). I also took a walk over to the egregiously tacky Holiday Inn, a bright yellow eye sore that hosted most of the journalists during the war and is the closest landmark to finding what is now ...

... river which was the city's only water source.  But the Snipers were also under strict order not to shoot at the Holiday Inn down the road where all of the journalists were staying.  Should a journalist be shot, international outcry might cause ...

... , Chris and I went for a short walk around the corner from our hostel to get a closer look at the bright yellow Holiday Inn. This was the home to international journalists during the siege. It was situated along the road into the city from the airport, ...

... alone in Bosnia. We decided to team up and head to the Sarajevo Olympic stadium, one of the dozen cemeteries, the Holiday Inn (the home base for journalists during the war), the bridge were Franz Ferdinand was killed, another bridge where the first two ...

... National History Museum and if time permits, the National Museum. The history museum was a mile's walk roughly, it was across from the Holiday Inn. We made it there in good time with about an hour to go before closing time. The museum, keeping in line ...

... are the tombstones in the middle of public parks, and lining the streets, all from the war. The talismanic yellow Holiday Inn, the only functional hotel during the Sarajevo Seige, where all world's news correspondents stayed, still maintains its ...