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…
18 Reasons Why Rakija is Objectively the Best Drink in the Entire World
The first time I tried rakija (rakija pronunciation – ra-kee-ya) I was 18 years old. I’d just started my first year of university and I met a Bulgarian guy who had brought a plastic water bottle full of homemade alcohol…
Meeting a Bosnian War Hero
As we drove through the streets of Sarajevo, taking in the crumbling buildings and apartment blocks riddled with bullet holes, Al began to open up about why he’d decided to become a soldier during the Bosnian war. “I was walking…
