SaraYeahvo

The minibus picked us up bright and early on thursday morning and after an eight hour drive through Serbian countryside and over Bosnian mountains we reached Sarajevo. It's a very interesting city with a fascinating history, in many ways a meeting point between East and West you can pass a Mosque, Synagogue, Catolic and Orthdox church in a short stroll. It's also the place which triggered the start of the First World War, when Austro-Hungarian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sofia were assassinated here in 1914. In 1984 they hosted the winter olympics and just 8 years later they were tragically under siege by the Serbs during the Balkan War. For almost 4 years the population were held hostage in their own hometown and wherever you walk today building facades littered with bulletholes tell you what a horrific time this must have been.
We stayed at a hostel located right at the top of a very steep hill and thanks to that we now have buns of steel, we did all the touristy stuff walking around the charming old town, visiting the secret tunnel which during the siege was Sarajevo's only link with the outside world, and sampling the local nightlife. After three days here we decided to move on and jumped on a bus taking us to Mostar, but more about that later...

In garnment related news: People who know me will know I possess a jacket which is made of the softest material imaginable, what most of you don't know is that this fantastic piece of clothing broke in several places over the last few weeks and was on it's deathbed, however after the help from a crafty Bosnian seamstress the jacket now lives to tell the tale, and will hopefully see many more countries to come.