Sarajevo. Revised.

Niki and I met up with a friend of mine from UVA. Bayless has been traveling around Europe since the World Cup. He's been in the Balkans and to Turkey the past three months. Niki and I are hooked. A 14 hour bus ride each way was worth it. The history, the people, the music and the extremely cheap beer made for a great weekend. The pictures are in the order in which they were taken.

Just wrote about Sarajevo in an email and thought it might be a good addition to the blog, so here it is, word for word:

"bosnia was awesome, actually. the first night we went out to see this band play that bayless knew from when he was in sarajevo earlier in the year. the lead singer/guitarist is friends with bono. as in, bono played at that bar unannounced one night with him. and his friend wrote a book about the war, and he's in it, and bono reviewed it. bayless and I started the dance party that night. then we went to "the club" to meet up with Niki and the hostel crew. bosnia's interesting because if you walk along the main street you can see the buildings change from old-bosnian to austro-hungarian to socialist serbian. basically serbia wanted to split the country in two and give the other half to croatia. they surrounded it from 92-95 and the UN took control of the airport to drop food inside the surrounded city. but apparently, they weren't much help at all, dropped old cookies from the vietnam war and lots of condoms. so the bosnians built a tunnel from inside the city, under the airport and out the other side to escape, get food and make contact. and there was lots of arbitrary bombing and sniper shooting. all day, every day for 4 years until NATO bombed the Serbs and they retreated. "