Sarajevo Favorites

Favorite thing: Local delicacy which consists of stuffing filo pastry with meat, spinach, cheese and potato

Burek (meat)
Sirnika (Cheese)
Krompirvasia (potato)
Zeljanica (spinach)
Buredzike (burek with sour cream or yogurt)

They are really tasty and make a great snack at any time during the day and are sold everywhere. And great for veggies. A total must!!

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Favorite thing: If it's a really hot summer day in Sarajevo, I suggest walking around the Miljacka- over by Grbavica. I'd have to say to me it's the only spot in the city that'll give you some shade, plus you get a nice view of the Miljacka, and there are a few cafe's and restaurants that you can stop in, everythings pretty much right there.

Favorite thing: Well, this is a handy tip when going somewhere where you have not been fefore, or u have been but for a shorta while.

Bascarsija
Address: Obala Kulina Bana 40
Telephone: +387 33 272-300

Novo Sarajevo
Address: Zmaja od Bosne 51
Telephone: +387 33 713-830

Dobrinja
Address: Salke Lagumdzije 15
Telephone: +387 33 766-381

Ilidza
Address: Emira Boguniæa-Èarlija 3
Telephone: +387 33 762-181

ps. psychiatric drugs, antibiotics and heavy aenesthetics cannot be gotten in our pharmacie without a valid dr prescribtion-so take care of this issue

Fondest memory: This post of mine does not reffer to the fond memories, yet can help for the memories of our visiors to be fond indeed:)

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Favorite thing: The Siege of Sarajevo lasted from April 1992 to October 1995.

During this time the city was surrounded by the Yugoslav People's Army and Bosnian Serb forces who bombed the city from the hills around. Along with the tanks on the hills the snipers arrived in the city so whenever somebody wanted to go from A to B it had to be quick in order not to be targeted and shot. An estimate of more than 12,000 people were killed and 50,000 wounded during this time. 85% of them civilians.

The people who stayed in Sarajevo didn't have food or water. In the winter they heated their houses with fire made from windowframes of bombed out houses. The electricity would only work seldomly. So did telephones and postal services. On the black market, however, you could get almost everything - for many many Deutschmarks. Not the freedom though! There was no way out.

It's hard to imagine how the people of Sarajevo could survive this terrible time. It's hard to imagine why nobody could help them. And for me it's hard to imagine why I didn't do anything back then. It makes me sad thinking about how this war was so close yet so difficult and thus far away from us in the 1990s... Sorry Sarajevo!

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Fondest memory: When Sarajevo was an Olympic City in 1984 I was 11 so they were the first Olympics I really followed. Actually I was glued to the television. This hasn't changed until today, I still watch lots of telly when the Olympics are on and I am dreaming of going to the Games one day.

Vucko, a little wolf, was the mascot of the Olympics and he was my first love ;) I absolutely loved the cartoons including him and the way he howled "Sarajevooooooo" everytime I switched on the telly. I started drawing him and that's what I did all the time during and after the Olympics which lasted from 8-19 February 1984. They were the first and only Winter Olympics which were hosted by a communist country.

You can read more about these Olympic Games here: http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/past/index_uk.asp?OLGT=2&OLGY=1984

When we were in Sarajevo in 2007 a lot has changed in the city since its Olympics days. The war in the 1990s destroyed a lot of buildings in the city including most Olympic sites. I started my quest for Olympic memorabilia and came home with a Vucko T-Shirt and a little Vucko statue and was so happy about it.

Favorite thing: Don’t forget to eat the traditional Bosnian dishes of cevapi and burek. Cevapi consists of small beef kebabs on some very tasty grilled bread. Burek is filo pastry filled with meat, cheese and potato. Bosnian cuisine is very good and available mainly in the old town.

Favorite thing: 10000 people died and 50000 were left homeless during the mid 90s and the war, and there are little pockets of history all over the city. there remain a few bombed out buildings and you can see NATO busses and peacekeeping signs in some places. this is such an amazing city with so much to see as it emerges from the dark into the future

Favorite thing: lots of mosques everywhere, especially if you go up high in the ottoman quarter. our hostel was here and on every corner there was a small baby mosque. it kept us awake the first night but you soon get used to it!