Yes this is the famous Bridge! The Latin bridge which saw Mr.Ferdinand assinated and of course you know the rest.
War damage is still evident around the city.
Decending into the bussling old Turkish quarter.

The Old Turkish Quarter, reprository of much oriental delight!
The view of Sarajevo from our accomidation. We got picked up by a big Hostel agency at the train station when we arrived at 10pm after 12 hrs on the train and that was nice of them, they had a minivan ready to ferry us all into town (13 people plus bags in one van!) but the room was not great and it was a little far from the center so we changed the next day and found ourselves a much nicer room in a private house. The owner was a charming old Bosnian and the house has a fanastic view! Notice you can see a Catholic and Orthodox church and many many Mosque minerats. The big chimney is the brewery which was so instrumental in keeping the city alive.

We are currently in Sarajevo and what a pleasure it is to be here! It really is a lovely city, the old Turkish quarters (Bascarsiji) is especially nice. As you wonder through its small bustling streets it feels like you have left europe and entered some more exotic eastern part of the world. There are numerous small cafes which seems to be constantly busy with people just sitting and chatting and watching the world go by as they drink thimble fulls of the strong black stuff. There are Persian rugs to buy and copper coffee sets. And best of all I found an aladins cave of a sweety shop which sold many, manz different kinds of Turkish delights! I am officially addicted! In not even two days I have been there three times! On my last (hopefully last!) visit I baught 1kg of the good stuff for only 7km (3.5 euros, maybe around 4 dollars). As you drive through the main road in sarajevo (dubbed snipers alley from when it was turned into an avenue of death by serb snipers) you pass from the old turkish district to elegant biuldings from the austro-hungarian empire to huge, ugly concrete communist buildings. This town of sarajevo has been ruled over by Romans, Ottomans, the Hapsburg Empire, Facists and Communists. It really deserves a break! We took a war tour today and it was both interesting and sobering. It is hard to reconsile (spelling!) the vibrant town we see today to the images of shelled out, bullet ridden buildings. We visited the tunnel, a 800m hand dug tunnel which was Sarajevos only safe route to the outside world during the siege. We learned of the horrific conditions the imhabitants endured for almost 4 years. It was as I said quite sobering and also gave us an insight into the hugely compicated and convoluted politics of the region. Bosnia and Hertcegovena at the moment has 14 administrative districts each with a parliment and prime minister! Yes! 14 prime ministers! And also 3 presidents (one serb, one croat and one muslim). It might not be ideal but as our guide said at the moment it works and there is peace and that is the most important thing. He himself was ten during the war and told of how he has to learn about lines of sight and how to avoid serb snipers on the daily trips to get drinking water and food. The only water in the city (after the serbs turned off the water) was from the brewery which has its own natural spring, but as serb snipers covered the whole of the city it was a dangerous task getting there. He also told us some Sarajevo serbs faught with the serb agressors while others faught with the defenders. Sigh....crazy! Tomorrow we will go to Mostar where there was also fighting but this time between croats and muslims (a few years earlier croats has been fighting serbs and in sarajevo the croats faught with the muslims against the serbs). The people here are very friendly and full of life though, I would recomend anyone to come here! If only for the Turkish delights.....