Sarajevo - There's too much to say 💙
Sarajevo has been such a wonderful city to spend time in and one, I'm ashamed to say, I knew nothing about. Because of this we actually booked ourselves on to a walking tour instead of me using one I've found online trying to tell Matt facts as we walked. Our brilliant guide Muhamed took us around the city showing us the highlights whilst sharing information on the three main events that put Sarajevo in the media spotlight - the Assassination of Franz Ferdinand (1914), the 1984 Winter Olympics, and the Seige of Sarajevo (1992-96). Let's start in the middle! On our first day we headed up Trebevic, the mountain to the south of Sarajevo, offering spectacular views of the city and the mountains that surround it. We did cheat and get the cable car up, mainly to save time as the reason we wanted to go up was to walk back down the abandoned bobsleigh track from the 1984 winter Olympics. The mountain was alive with butterflies and grasshoppers (more grasshoppers I've ever seen ...