A few vague recollections before a proper post appears:
- A 12-hour bus ride through the night isn’t as bad as it sounds, and will arrive an hour early
- The taxi driver at the bus station will overcharge sleepy foreigners, but they are too tired to care
- Sarajevo Roses are scattered throughout the city, marking where mortal shells exploded and killed someone; according to a tour guide, 100 have been marked
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A rose beside the cathedral. - Ćevapi isn’t bad, but isn’t exceptional
- Burek, however, is
- The border guards at Slavonski Brod in Croatia still use Windows XP, which is more impressive than pathetic at this point
- In some areas, Sarajevo looks like a smaller version of Vienna with mosques
- Stray dogs litter the city, except around the Gazi-Husrev Beg Mosque
- By the mosque, stray cats run the streets
- Hostels outside the old town and in the hills are better because of the view
- Reaching the bobsled track from the 1984 Winter Olympics can be done via a comfortable, paved road, or taking narrow streets through a neighborhood until it disintegrates into dirt, rocks, and mud
- The latter is more fun in retrospect, but much worse when in the moment
- Cemeteries are scattered throughout the city, and the number buried between 1992 and 1996 is staggering
