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Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » East » Sarajevo August 5th 2008

After the longest train journey since the creation of trains and a 3 hour delay in Croatia where the local shop decided a good exchange rate was 1 euro to 1 kuna (it should be 10) I finally made it in to Sarajevo just as they were locking up the station. Sarajevo is very different to the countries Ive been to so far due to its massively Turkish influence. The old town is a maze of cobbled streets lined with souvenir shops with hundreds of minarets overlooking them. Its only when you take a second look that you see that almost every single building is peppered with bullet holes and those that arent are reconstructions funded by other countries to help rebuild the region after the war when Yugoslavia broke up. The place seemed to be ... read more
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Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » East » Sarajevo August 2nd 2008

Had fun in Sarajevo, didn't tread on a landmine... read more

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » East » Sarajevo July 20th 2008

Sarajevo on hieno! En päässyt Istanbuliin asti, mutta tämä on meilkein yhtä hyvä. Kulunut ja rähjäinen kaupunki täynnä elämää. Sodan arvet ovat vielä paikoitellen nähtävissä talojen julkisivuissa. Kaupunki näyttää vähän niin kuin laastaroidulta. Monista rakennuksista näkee, että niitä on paikkailtu. Moskeijoiden minaretit luovat itämaisen tunnelman. Muslimeja näkyy myös katukuvassa; hunnutettuja naisia siis, eihän miehistä niin tiedä. Tätä pidemälle en tällä matkalla ehdi. Nyt on aika lähteä takaisinpäin. Travemunden satamaan onkin yli 2000 kilometriä. Aikaa paluumatkaan on noin viikko. Piece of cake? We will see, stay tuned for the next episode... :)... read more

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » East » Sarajevo July 20th 2008

Goodday Firstly, Mr McGregor dropped a bomb on us. Although, this is not an uncommon occurance in Bosnia it nevertheless caused some consternation. It transpired that he was leaving in order to be present at the birth of his child. Accordingly he got on the first plane to Kuala Lumpur, which happened to be from Zagreb, three days later. Sarajevo turned out to be rather a highlight. We were housed in a metal shack in a slum next to the beautiful Muslim quarter of the city. Our arrival was somewhat hairy, and thatś not just the drivers eyebrows. Our ´free pick-up service´involved a drag race between a dilapidated Mercedes and a smoke belching Golf. This culminated in an abrupt ´bay park´ in a hedge in the darkness. Our hostel turned out to be very pleasant and ... read more
Twilight over Sarajevo
like, night time.
Mopsy and train.

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » East » Sarajevo June 4th 2008

Well here we are in Bosnia, after a grueling twenty four hour commute from Sofia, Bulgaria. We've been on four trains, two of them transnational, and when we arrived last night, we were absolute shells. Completely knackered, running on fumes. We arrived at the Sofia train station two nights ago with minutes to spare, and spent a few frenzied minutes running around (backpacks on) trying to locate our train. It adds a whole new level of difficulty to things when the country you're in uses a completely different alphabet than you're own. Like, it's still Cyrillic, like they use in Greece, but it's a different Cyrillic. Somehow. So we finally got to our train and crashed in a sweaty mess in our compartment. So that's how the passport control officer found us, sweating and a little ... read more

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » East » Sarajevo May 29th 2008

Well it was amazing.. Bosnia and Herzegovina is one of the countries you say to yourself "why would I go there??" At least that's what I thought before hand. But when I arrived there I soon changed my mind. The Country is very lush and filled with mountains and rolling hills ( though you cant go hiking without a guide for fear of Landmines). Then you go to Sarajevo the Capitol, which the only thing I had ever heard about it was on CNN and it wasn't too pretty. But you walk around and its a very quaint city with the nicest people. Also its the only place in the world I have found where you can walk around the downtown and hear the "Call to Prayer" then just a few seconds later here the Church ... read more
The Pigeon Lady
Streets of Sarajevo
A vary large chess match

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » East » Sarajevo May 25th 2008

Za doručak tokrat ni bilo niti polnozrnatega sorodnika, zato smo se pač morali zadovoljiti z belim kruhom. Jebiga, smo si pa zato privoščili belo kavo. Do Mostarja sva se skozi tunele brez luči večinoma vozila ob reki Neretvi. Bil je lep, sončen dan, po radiu so razlagali recept za ribo s krompirjem in čebulo "za ideju za nedeljski ručak za naše slušateljice". Kakšnih 30 km pred Mostarjem pa se je zgodila klasika: Francla so ujeli na radar! Štos je v tem, da sva itak vedno vozila po omejitvah, le tistikrat se je moj šofer odločil prehiteti bus - i evo ti ga na, policija. Jebiga, desi se. "Baš iz Slovenije ste mi vi?!" je bil navdušen policaj. Odšla sta do njihovega avta, Francl je nekaj motovilil z rokami, body language je bil jasno razpoznaven tudi iz ... read more

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » East » Sarajevo May 24th 2008

Hvala bogu, da sem ze prvo noc ugotovila, kaj sem pozabila doma: cepke za usesa. Se dobro, da se imela nekaj dodatne vate za anti-smrcanje. Zjutraj pa dorucak! Ob pristni bosanski muziki, ob kateri se clovek pocuti kot gledalec PINK TV, sem si privoscila najboljsi mozen kompromis: imitiacijo polnozrnatega kruha, sirni namaz in instant capuccino iz vrecke. Pa se en caj za povrh. Da ne bi kdo mislil, ima tudi jaja, meso, sir itd., samo nema jogurta i muslija i zelenog caja. Jebiga, desi se. Po dorucku me je Francl narobe razumel in narocil se eno kavo za oba. Spila sva jo na terasici pred hotelom z razgledom na se vedno prisoten avto, stoenko, jugic in mimo rohneci tramvaj z reklamo za Belinko. Po dvojni dozi kofeina sva se najprej odpeljala tunelu naproti. Res je, bajte ... read more
Tunel
Tunel
Dobrinja

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » East » Sarajevo May 23rd 2008

... make sure you leave your usual tastebuds at home ... Ampak najprej lepo po vrsti. Torej! Tokrat odkrivamo Balkan v svoji najbolj pristni, e kar malo orientalski izvedbi. Pot naju je vodila mimo hrvaških naftnih polj (?!) do mejnega prehoda Gradiška (ki je nekoč bil Bosanska Gradiška, a so prvi del besedne zveze lepo prelepili in izbrisali), mimo naju so švigali avtomobili tudi z LJ, MB in CE registracijo - ovitek slovenski, vsebina izključno bosanska. In evo nas v Bosni! Za začetek so naju pozdravili kineski shop, pravoslavna in katoliška cerkev ter imena mest v cirilici. Welcome to Bosna - Serbian edition. To, da smo še daleč od pristne muslimanske izkušnje, so dali vedeti tudi stalno ponavljajoči se napisi prasetina. In pa pravoslavna cerkev v gradnji, s katere se je bahavo sončila srbska zastava. Ujagala ... read more
I evo nas ...

Europe » Bosnia & Herzegovina » East » Sarajevo May 12th 2008

Hi All, I was in Bosnia over the weekend, in both Mostar and Sarajevo. Here are some pictures. I still owe more pictures from Dubrovnik and the pictures from Montenegro from a few weeks ago, but these pictures just took me alomst an hour to upload so those will have to wait. Ted... read more
Plate of Meat!!!!!
Roasted Lamb 1
Roasted Lamb #2




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