Issue 07 · 2024
On my way into the Bosnian mountains I passed Sarajevo and took a look at the city. As a child I often heard its name on the news ... with images of war. The war is still visible everywhere in and around Sarajevo: burnt-out ruins, bullet holes in houses and shrapnel marks on the ground make its consequences impossible to overlook even today.
The old town is quite pretty but very small ... I’d say if you’re nearby you should see Sarajevo, but flying there doesn’t make sense to me.
The trip in numbers
Year — 2024
Countries — Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Distance — approx. 500 km
Diesel — approx. 100 l · €140
Maybe I’m reading too much into it, but the holes in this modern architecture mirror the look of many of Sarajevo’s houses after the war.
Then I headed into the mountains behind Sarajevo – where Yugoslavia hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics. Six years later the Bosnian War began, and the venues were destroyed in the fighting.
Further up into the mountains
