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Hikes, Lattes, Museums

stellar magnet — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:56:21 +0000

My last night in Sarajevo, I met two sweet Portuguese girls that are studying in Novi Sad, Belgrade. We had some dinner and went out for drinks at some cheesy places because we couldn’t find anything cool. The next day we all explored the city together. We took a short hike up one of the cities many hills, admired the town from some high altitude, and then trekked back down around the 12 o’clock call-to-prayer. When your body is at a level that is above most of the mosques loud-speakers, you could hear all of them at once, overlapping. The sounds made everything seem somewhat surreal at that particular moment.

Back in the center, we had some drinks at a nice cafe that is part of some hotel there. There totally was a guy playing piano. Then we went to National Museum. We wanted to visit the history museum for the “Sarajevo Under Siege” exhibit but it was closed early since it was Sunday. Sucks. The National Museum was nice though, they have like 4 buildings. We rushed through two of them in 20 minutes. Good collection of like butterflies, rocks, and old carved things.

Three Meals Involving Wraps

stellar magnet — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:46:58 +0000

In Sarajevo, I have managed to eat a lot of wrapped food. I checked out the other Mexican restaurant and I ordered a chimichanga. It was okay tasting, but kind of similar to my burrito at Hacienda. And it wasn’t deep fried, it was just pan grilled or something. They filled it with grilled peppers like the Hacienda as well, instead of the regular way of beans and rice that I was hoping for.

My other wrapped food includes a dessert crepe and a sort of vegetable wrap that had more sauce than actual stuff inside the wrap.

Waking up to Snow

stellar magnet — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:21:48 +0000

After sleeping in until at least noon, I peeked out my window and noticed snow on the roof. Very nice to see the city sprinkled with this magical white. Also today Rhea goes to Croatia so alone again I am.

Sarajevan Dinners, Continued

stellar magnet — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:00:09 +0000

I enjoyed my second stuffed eggplant in less than a week, this time in Sarajevo at cute little restaurant in the center of town, Dveri. The presentation of this one was much better than my Albanian stuffed eggplant, the ingredients a little different though. Quite tasty! Had it with some more tomato soup and cornbread as well.

Searching for the Sarajevo Tunnel

stellar magnet — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:55:55 +0000

Me and Rhea ventured out to the very edge of Sarajevo and got very lost looking for what was left of the Sarajevo Tunnel. It started raining and everyone we asked where the Tunnel Museum was, they’d say oh it’s 1 km that way, 500 meters that way. Finally these two girls led us there and there was just like 10 minutes until the museum closed and the guy working there was laughing at us the whole time, I guess since we came so late in the day (it was just 4pm!) It’s a really small and random museum in the middle of nowhere. It was interesting to see the 20 m of remaining tunnel. The guy working there was nice enough to give us a ride back to the tram. Score!

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

stellar magnet — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:48:49 +0000

At last, we are in Sarajevo. This nice guy on the bus helped us with getting around town in the first hour, showed us to the tram. He was really nice and cute, I almost asked for his phone number. Ha. So I have been updating this blog all day with backlogged posts, and now I bring you to the present day with me in Sarajevo. I haven’t taken too many pictures yet… But yeah there are a lot of graveyards here. We are staying at this chill hostel with our own room with a lock. They have a vegetarian restaurant here with like a daily menu where you eat pretty well for 5 euros, or 3 euros in the last hour (“happy hour”). An awesome deal! The picture below is from that restaurant, Vegehana. Right now I am at this Mexican cantina called Hacienda. Me and Rhea shared some nachos and a burrito. It was good, but not like Californian Mexican food though. The dudes working the bar here really seem to like me, I just got some free blueberry juice right now and they keep smiling at me.