A Corner in Sarajevo and Leaping into Mostar

Walking it off...
The streetscapes are so different to what you were photographing a few blogs back - you guys are seeing such an interesting cross-section of Europe. I think I would walk a lot more if I got a kilo of Turkish Delight for every 6km I walked! And seriously what was in that baklava that made you visualise 'horny' bees??? Jeez :D

Gavrilo Princip didn't start the war - the assassination was just a pretext for a war Austria and Germany had been wanting for a long time. It was Austria which decided to start the war and invade Serbia (with Germany's backing) because Serbia didn't agree to every single one of Austria's demands. Serbia agreed to all but one. Also, it was Austria which annexed BiH a few decades before even though there were no ethnic Austrians living there. BiH at the time had over 40% Serbian population - they were the largest of the three main ethnic/religious groups then. Also, Austria (its military and government and even people) did not even like the Archduke - his funeral was boycotted. No one showed up. He also stood in the way of the wanted war by the military. The Archduke didn't want war with Serbia, as he feared Russia, and he was even thinking of bringing Serbs/Slavs into the Empire with themselves and the Hungarians. The Archduke was given no protection, despite strong Austrian forces there, and the Austrian army was doing military exercises at the border with Serbia at the time. This is usually a preparation and even a clue that war is imminent. Further, Germany wanted to attack a rising Russia (Russia was flowering and improving at that time) before it got its railroad system up and got to strong. There had been plenty of meetings and calls for war against Serbia in the previous years by Austrian and Germany diplomats and military officials. There were warnings about an assassination attempt but they practically "dangled" the Archduke in an open car and didn't abort his tour (on a Serbian holy day no less) despite that. In the end they drove the car right to where he was standing and stopped in front of him. The car stayed stopped until Gavrilo Princip (actually a very small, weak/sickly looking young man) so he could walk up and kill point blank. Austrian Intelligence had to know about the plot and very well could have been feeding info to the radical plotters and Gavrilo and the others were just puppets (believing they were being patriotic, but actually providing an excuse for war and killing the dislike Archduke).