Sarajevo

How's the Serbice . . . er, i mean service?

Lots of history in Sarajevo. We vicariously travel with you - take some pictures for us, dag...

It's tres bosn...umm...bon

this is NOT my photo, found it online -- but it is the immediate view from my hotel:

You're overlooking the cemetery?

Enjoy, Dagmar!


I went to Sarajevo in 1979. Lovely city, then.
It was quite cool to walk from the Austro-Hungarian type zone -so Mitteleuropa- to the Medina, with its mosques and minarets. People were so kind but, from their description of the population one could gather that a civil war was easy to spark.
I had very little knowledge of Balkan history, then, so it struck me that the bridge where Archduke Ferdinand was murdered was named Gavrilo Princip, to honor the assasin (or patriot, depending of the viewpoint).
We stayed at a charming little boarding house (they had embroidery in their linen) in Tomé Masaryk street. Nice memories.

Sounds very interesting so far!

Interesting report in today's Travel-section of the Independent on Sunday




Online version >here<

I wonder, dagmar, if you share those impressions.

So now we know it for sure: dagmar is a travel reporter.

ha, i wish. i would love to be one, for half a year or so.

here are my photos from Sarajevo:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=98153&id=697154364&l=723359701d

Very nice pictures.

The old part seems unchanged.
The 80s building was soooo icky.
The plaques on Princip Gavrilov bridge made me shiver. To think they stand for people who were 4-5 year old children when I visited, not knowing their fate.

This is my favorite of them: putting Comrade Tito's eternal fire to good use: