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Sarajevo
Saturday, June 7th, 2008
For every shell crater, there seems to be a smiling Bosnian. Sarajevo has an amazing energy and optimism for a city that was the site of one of the worst atrocities of my generation.
Between 1992 and 1996, there were around 62 000 casualties as the result of Bosnian Serb mortar and sniper fire. Nearly [...]
Sarajevo or bust
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Long day. 6am train, in Ljubljana. Alarm bells start going off when it’s twenty minutes late. Correspondingly, I arrive in Zagreb twenty minutes late and therefore have one minute to change currency, buy a ticket and make my connection. Needless to say, I missed the train to Sarajevo.
The next one comes in eleven hours. Uh [...]