Friday, Aug 23 — Sarajevo
We cross the border, and enter BiH, and in particular, the Republika Srpska. Eduardo informs is propounced more like Serbka, as in relating to Serbia, because the entity is populated with a Serbian majority. We drive along the windy road, with more neat tunnels, and eventually enter Bosnia proper, in the other entity of BiH, called the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is busy and hot in Sarajevo, and we somehow park and immediately walk into the old town, called Baščaršija and to Sač Buregdzinica, where we order massive amounts of cheese, meat, and cheese and onion burek. This place is special in that they have been around for 200 years and still cook the burek over a wood fire. The burek comes with copius amounts of unsweetend yogurt. It is perfect!
We then drive up to Jahorina, to drop off Maika at her pharmacy conference. It is a gorgeous drive through pine forests. We arrive at the mountains and see the Olympics sign! The Jahorina ski resort located on the mountain hosted the women's alpine skiing events of the 1984 Winter Olympics.
We drive back to Sarajevo, and check into our Airbnb, in a communist-era block. It is quite rudimentary, but in a perfect location. We walk down to Marshal Tito street, where a DJ event is beginning to start at the Eternal Flame, for the final night of the Sarajevo Film Festival, which coincidentally is happening. We continue along Ferhadija pedestrian street, and across the East-West divide, which seperates the historic Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman sections of the city. We continue and again visit the Baščaršija old town of Sarajevo.
DJ Adriatique
Saturday, Aug 24 — Sarajevo
Here
Sunday, Aug 25 — Sarajevo
Dinner at Restoran Brajlović
Monday, Aug 26 — Montenegro
Lunch at lake, drive to Mostar, drive back to Podgorica