Day 66 and 67 in Sarajevo
A short stay in Sarajevo turned out to be a bit longer than first expected. I met a lot of nice and fun people and just had to hang around for a while longer. We have been doing some sightseeing, I have gone to a museum or two, seen the spot where the Habsburger heir was shot, a museum on the War in the 90’s, a football game between Bosnia and Turkey on big-screen (people here really needs Hero’s badly!). Gotten a bit of a sense for the culture in the country… definitely a more macho mood than I am used to and… well… just seen things 🙂
Souvenirs in Sarajevo… pens that looks like bullets… 
In what other country in Europe would a sign saying “Mr Sexy” be a fun a cool thing to put on your car? (Or miss Sexy further down 😉
This is where the first world war started… with the shootings in Sarajevo…
Me and a cool CS-girl that I was hanging out with during my stay in the city. 
Since Bosnia is a Muslim country they had a lot of really cool Mosques, and since it was Ramadan almost no-one was drinking alcohol even in pubs (there are some Christians in town as well… but mainly Muslims)
I love this picture because of the windows… the top left is a really new wooden window, the two ones to the right are really old murky wood and down to the left is one ornamented in gold and is really fancy… and yepp… there are of course the traditional bullet holes in the wall as well…
Three Swiss girls I was also hanging out with a lot when in town.
This picture kind of shows how Sarajevo still looks like… 15 years after the war.
Want some ice cream? Why not try the red bull flavor… (was actually better than I had expected…)
Me, the Swiss girls and Alen our local Bosnian guide (CS:er). He was really cool and showed us around the whole town and told us a lot about life in Sarajevo.
Watching the football game Bosnia/Turkey (it was a draw which was really good for Bosnia… there where a lot of firecrackers going on when there was a goal :-D)
Afterwards everyone was celebrating here… look at the guy to the left climbing up the building to join the others standing on the top of the balcony… these guys where crazy… 😀
One not so lucky guy fell down and hit his head… so the police is there until the ambulance arrives… the police where quite brutal btw… wouldn’t like to go to a Bosnian prison…
Day 65 Traveling to Sarajevo
This day was a travel day again, usually these are not really something I write about but going through Bosnia turned out to be a quite emotional ride…
First getting out of Split… I took a few short cuts through small pathways and suddenly I was attacked by this huge dog… luckily I managed to jump just outside the reach of his line… so his jaws snapped shut in mid air… phew!
Later on I got a ride with this truck that drove about 80 km/h on the small mountain road with sharp turns (and a speed limit of 40). The big thing was not the crazy speed though, but to see all the bombed out houses in the landscape… there is so much destruction here… even in Sarajevo most houses still have bullet holes in the plaster… you can really feel it wasn’t long ago this country was in war.
The countryside in Split… or rather this is actually still in the city.. these people LOVE their vegetables…
This was the dog that jumped me… I had to go back and take a photo (on a safe distance)
The roads to Sarajevo where beautiful in the beginning… blue water… green trees and sand
They had signs warning for cows on the roads which I thought was funny to start with…
Then I realized why… there where cows walking over the roads here and there…
Later on the was a more common scenery… almost every second house was without a roof, and the ones still standing usually had big bullet holes in them.
More houses
I walked by a 5 star hotel in Sarajevo and saw a sign saying that you are not allowed to bring dogs … or GUNS into the hotel… kind of tells you where you are…
