Sarajevo

It was before the breakup of the Eastern Bloc so it was not a free society… very depressing at times but interesting. I am sure its a much nicer place now.

Sarajevo is the love of my life. I’m not really Swiss, I’m from Sarajevo.

dude, i have traveled a little bit. but sarajevo was the only city that i loved instantly. it was a small city to me(i was living in london at the time). but there was so much heart, so much history, so much naturual and cultural beauty. i would love to go back someday. it was quite a powerful trip seeing and hearing personal stories of the war. something shifted in me in that country. i highly recommend it.

As you can see in the title it stands “first” because this is definitly not the last time I went there. Why? First of all the city of Sarajevo is magnificient. It is placed in a bottom of a small hill, which surrounds the hole city with it"s green. The people are really firendly and nice, and humorous. The city is quiet, life simple and the air is very different, you can say that there is something around,in front and behind you, that is beautiful. I can"t explain it. I never felt more welcome here that in all the places and cities I visited so far. The three days I spend there weren"t nearly enough for me. unfortunatly, i had to leave as I was having the time of my life. Shopping, taking photos, seeing places like “Baščaršija”, “Sebilij”," Gazi Husrev Bey"s Mosque", and going at night out to Coloseum Club, City Pub, Jež. Everything is cheap especially the taxis. I really do hope I go there at least once a year, but if I don"t the memory of Sarajevo will stay in my heart for the rest of my life.

I had the opportunity to visit Sarajevo in the early 1990s as part of the U.N. humanitarian relief effort when the conflict there was still raging, and before NATO became involved. As a photojournalist, I spent the better part of two weeks flying into and out of Sarajevo and had the opportunity to meet some wonderful people there. I’m glad the place is on a road back to normalcy now, over ten years later.