Our journey from Visegrad to Sarajevo included scary tunnels, steep climbs, and lovely animals. One of these animals was a big white sheepdog who decided to sit with us while we had lunch. A farmer went past on his tractor and waved to us then saw our dog friend and laughed - we think maybe he was her owner.
We camped not too far out of Sarajevo and woke to hear nearby bell-clanging which we thought probably belonged to a sheep or goat. As we were leaving, we saw through the mist that it was not sheep or goats but two beautiful, friendly horses! (Matthew: "oh look it's cows!" - admittedly it was quite foggy but this was still funny enough to give me the giggles)
The ride into Sarajevo turned out to be really easy (for a city). We road in on a not-too-busy highway (made less busy by current roadworks which also slowed traffic down to a friendly passing pace) and basically popped out right in the middle of the old town where we tied up our steeds in the lovely old town square. Sarajevo is so pretty! There are graceful, dreamy hills surrounding the city so that it feels nestled into the land. We shuddered to learn these hills were filled with snipers during the 1992-1996 siege of Sarajevo. As usual we felt overwhelmed trying to reconcile this lovely part of the world with it's awful recent history. But more on Sarajevo next post..
One last thing, we'd like to return a "blog shout-out" to our friend Alasdair from Glasgow who is currently travelling in India. He is keeping a very honest and entertaining blog at
www.alasdaircowie.com which we try to keep up with from the road - happy reading!
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