We went to Hotel Europe for a special Bosnian dessert called Tufahija (pronounced Tufaheeya). It’s apple poached in simple sugar syrup and stuffed with walnut or almond. It’s topped with whipped cream…
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100th Anniversary of Armistice Day
The bridge in the photo is the Latin Bridge in Sarajevo. On June 28th, 1914, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Ferdinand and his wife, Duchess Sophie were driven across it….
The Kindness of Strangers in Republika Srpska
The Berlin Wall came down on November 9th, 1989 (29 years ago, today). A few weeks later, the non-violent Velvet Revolution ended Communism in Czechoslovakia. Among the six republics that made up…
Umoljani Village
Today, we drove to a village called Umoljani. It’s about 50 km (31 miles) southwest of Sarajevo. It’s in the Bjelasnica mountains where some of the 1984 Winter Olympics skiing competitions were…
Mali Muzej BiH and Ambassadors Alley
Yesterday, we went for a walk along Ambassadors Alley. Ambassadors from many different countries have ceremoniously planted linden trees along this trail that follows the Miljacka River. The trail was pretty quiet….
We’re Total Freeloaders
We’ve visited Arna’s apartment twice and met up for dinner once. She’s really busy because she’s guiding as many tours as she can before the season dies down. Tourism this summer was…
Cat on a Cold Tile Roof
Meet Sara! She was crying on the roof, outside our window this afternoon. It looked like she didn’t know how to get back down, but she was too scared to come inside…
“It’s OK. She’s just Asian.”
There was no rain in the weather forecast today and I have been craving tofu for days. We’ve searched every supermarket we encountered but none of them sell tofu. Our plan was…
The Kindness I’ve Seen in Kotor
I cannot stop thinking about the cats in Kotor, Montenegro especially Kelly Koh. I am so worried that she’s been poisoned by that evil man because she kept crying for her babies….
500 Days at the Sarajevo Wine Weekend
On our previous visit to Sarajevo, we befriended the guide from our tour of the Srebrenica Genocide Memorial, Arna. We’ve been trying to meet up with her this weekend, but she had…