Finally finally….
I was searching the net, preparing for my trips to Berlin when Honza skyped me “Karadzic was arrested. I’m watching it on CNN.” “No, i can’t be. I’ve just surfed that site.” I objected and refreshing CNN home page, still nothing. I googled around but came up empty. Then there it was, the familiar breaking news yellow banner with the large text “War crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic has been arrested, AP reports quoting the office of Serbian president.”
This is too good to be true. It’s… politics. Croatia and Serbia caught their infamous fugitives, well, in a very convenient time, too convenient I must say.
“Are you happy for Bosnians?” Honza asked me. “I think they will celebrate.”
I think they do too, at least the Bosniaks and Bosnian-Croats. I hope Karadzic’s capture, thought done by Serbia special force, will help Bosnia’s EU case.
[Reuters]
SwimmersGuide is an excellent, well-kept user-collaborate database of swimming pools around the world. Click on Bosnia-Sarajevo to find a list of pools. Hours and prices might not be precise, but you have the address and most importantly link to the pool’s website.
Bosnia currently has only two regions listed: Sarajevo and Jahorina, with one pool each; I doubt if the info is even correct. If you have swum or known any pool from other cities especially major ones like Mostar and Banja Luka, please add them to the database.
The Mehmed Paša Sokolovi? Bridge over the Drina River in the town of Višegrad was recently added to Unesco Hermitage List. This historically
significant bridge is featured in Nobel Prize-winning author Ivo Andric’s
“Bridge over the Drina,” a novel describing century-spanning stories and
events taking places in Bosnia, affecting the lives of multi-ethnic Bosnians: Muslims, Turks, Serbs and gypsies.
“Bridge over the Drina” is a super fiction about which I should have written a long time ago. I have since forgotten most of the details and probably have to reread the book again in order to review it properly.
The bonus story of how I got hold of this book and my long trip to
return it to its rightful owner is also interesting.
Soon, I will tell.
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If you need to send presents overnight to friends or relatives living in Prague or Sarajevo, he [didn’t get his name] is the man. No need to worry about packages being lost or broken sending via European Post
either Czech or Bosnia. I failed to send and received packages thrice in this continent which caused me to believe that I was an idiot who could not write a decent label.
The driver lives in Prague, and once a week he drives people from Prague to Sarajevo and vice versa in addition to stuffs and presents.
He charges 5000 CZK (~200 EUR) for a roundtrip ride starting from Prague to Sarajevo, and probably less for trips starting from Sarajevo to Prague. The price is more than Eurolines bus ticket from Prague to either Vienna, Budapes or Zagreb plus connecting trains/buses to Sarajevo. However, you can make this trip in one day and don’t have to wait over night in one of those stations.
Phone: +420 602 316 395 (Czech mobile).
From Prague
Location: Namesti Miru, Praha
Pickup time: Friday afternoon
Depart: Saturday morning
Arrive: Saturday evening
From Sarajevo
Location: Skenderia
Pickup time: ?
Depart: ?
Arrive: ?
The driver is a family friend of the wife of my boyfriend’s boss’s boss, so he should be reliable.
I will update this post once I have more information.
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