Ah, Balkan food. Neither as famous nor as revered as cuisines from other regions in Europe, traditional Balkan cuisine is pretty much unknown to anyone who isn’t, well, Balkan. Coming from a region that most people only associate with war and conflict, Balkan food has taken a backseat in the European culinary scene, but is …
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Visiting Sarajevo is not the same as spending a weekend in Krakow or Malta. Any trip to Bosnia, particularly its capital of Sarajevo, is inherently political. You can’t visit and not be exposed to the country’s tragic and bloody history, and even if you try your hardest to bury your head in your plate of …
I didn’t plan to visit Bosnia and Herzegovina. As with most of the places I’ve ended up, it just sort of happened. I’d been sunning myself in Croatia with a couple of friends and I knew that I was going to continue travelling, but I had no idea where to go next. To me, the …
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Last updated: March 2023. Backpacking in the Balkans is not usually the first bucket list item for many backpackers. In fact, for many people coming to Europe for the first time, Paris, Rome and London all make the list but Sarajevo, Tirana and Skopje rarely do. Even Brits, who live in such close proximity to …
This post was last updated on 09/08/2021. What was a war childhood for you? …waiting for Grandpa to come back from the market, but he still hasn’t. …a war childhood is when you have a crush at school, and she is killed by a shell. …childhood is childhood, even during a war…instead of napkins and …
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Please note: this article contains descriptions of torture, murder and rape that may be distressing to some readers. I did not take any of my own photographs whilst in the Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide and so the pictures used are from the Siege of Sarajevo itself, and all are from WikiCommons. After …
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