Sarajevo

In a recent tweet, the American embassy in Sarajevo pinned a photo of the rainbow flag standing next theirs to indicate their support of the fight for human rights endangered by the discrimination against sexual minorities. I will share examples of the incredibly homophobic comments. They’re not my own, so…

Recently, it was announced that a military museum was to be opened here. Those kinds of institutions are rarely too exciting, since they’re all about different ways and traditions of killing other people, with loads of exhibits showing how inventive we were throughout our history when it comes to improving…

How I Attempted (And Maybe Failed) To Understand Sarajevo Not A Guide We arrived in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina at 11 p.m. on a cold March night. Around midnight, we were still driving through the city in our host’s car. Our host is young. He tells us all…

I still remember the mixture of pride and excitement I felt that morning, knowing that I was entrusted with the responsibility of driving the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. …

By the time I landed in Sarajevo, I was a nervous wreck. …

Exploring Bosnia & Herzegovina — It’s hard to capture just how amazing we’ve found Bosnia & Herzegovina (I’ll use the local abbreviation of BiH from here) to be. It’s such a dramatic country. Dramatic landscapes, dramatic history, dramatic architecture… it’s just all around dramatic.

Trip report: Oman, UAE, Bosnia and Turkey (2023)

A flash fiction story — Petr Martov was not a Serb. Neither was he a Croat or a Bosnian, nor from any of the Yugoslav republics for that matter. But he was Orthodox, and when at the end of his compulsory military service the call came from Orthodox Belgrade to help in the struggle to…

Sarajevo is known for three things. Chronologically, the shooting of Archduke Ferdinand, the 1984 Winter Olympics, and the Siege from 1992–1995. The Ottomans founded the town as a caravan stop, and this flavour also strongly accents the Sarajevo you see today. The Habsburgs left a strong architectural mark on parts…