Sarajevo Roses and Mostar’s scars

I’m now in Belgrade, but I feel I am starting to catch up with the blog. Bosnia was a beautiful country with some amazing food but its obviously still a place trying to come to terms with its recent history, here is my experience of it’s two most famous cities.

Sarajevo. There’s something about the name. It instantly sounds exotic amongst the more Western sounding names most European cities have. There’s good reason for this, as it was founded and named by the Ottoman Turks when they controlled the region and much of the Balkans. As I walked to my hostel, (you won’t be surprised to know I got lost and walked in circles several times until I found it) dusk fell and the sounds of the muezzin’s issuing their calls to the faithful from the minarets that, lit up, dotted the skyline, I knew the curtain would soon be drawing the European part of my journey to a close.

Sarajevo