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Sarajevo Day #3
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I watched a 16-minute video about the tunnel’s construction and scenes of Sarajevo being bombed and shot at by Serbs during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. The tunnel was constructed in 1993 to provide arms and supplies to Sarajevo, which had been surrounded by Serbian forces except for a strip of land held by Bosnians directly south of the airport. The problem was that the airport was controlled by the United Nations and was being maintained as ...
Mosques and Maps
... eastern culture and western hippy all surrounded by a city that had been bombed out but partly rebuilt to the same specs so that you would hardly know it in the old town. After about 45min, we’d seen much of the old town but had utterly failed to find the info office and had basically given up when we just happened upon it. By this point, we were pretty done with the town because of an extortionate and chintzy ice-cream man who suckered us into paying 1 extra Bosnian Mark each ...
Welcome to Sarajevo
... artillery. Almost every structure on the way in from the airport sports spackled shell patches; medals of survival. H ere an there you still see blackened ruins where the weeds fill the hallways and birds roost on broken windowsills. In a battle lasting a year longer than the siege of Leningrad, some 12,000 Sarajevans died and 56,000 were wounded. It's chilling, though it also occurs to me that this is certainly nothing out of the ordinary. ...
Savouring a striking Sarajevo
Had an uneasy night sleeping in Mostar, probably in the hope that I wouldn't fall too deep into sleep and not hear my alarm for 6:30 to take the early morning train from Mostar to Sarajevo, one of the few trains routes that exist in Bosnia-Herzegovina...
The hostel called a taxi for me at 7:15 that took me to the train station for the 7:55 train to the capital. It was bar none the most exhilarating train ride I've ever taken, heightened by breathing in the ...
Raining in Sarajevo
... on these people holding the bird feed! I was glad that I didn't have bird feed. That would have been scary! I walked down Kazandziluk (coppersmith street) where every little shop had a man in it banging away making coffee pots, or cups, or jewelry. There were a lot of neat things in that little alley, but I really don't have room to be buying these things (and do I really need a copper turkish coffee ...
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