Things to know about Sarajevo: this is not Boston. First, Boston has good drivers. Laugh if you will, but this is ridiculous. As any of my friends know, I have no fear of jaywalking in Boston. I will not do it here. By my professor's words, "the drivers don't have the same regard for human life as we do." There's also, apart from the main streets, no sidewalks wider than perhaps 2 or 3 feet. A bazaar around the corner sells hundreds of knock-offs of Michael Kors, Chanel, and Louis Vuitton. Mosques litter the city, a synagogue is around the corner, and at one point a block from our hotel you can stand between the architectural remnants of 2 empires, centuries apart. Also, their gelato puts literally everything in the US to shame, both in terms
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