Back to Sarajevo

I take the bus back to Sarajevo to visit some friends and find that over the last 10 days summer had left and it was now autumn. Rain and thunder darkened the city and most the outdoor cafes have closed for winter.

Then off to Zagreb via

I book a flight to Zagreb, Croatia on Air Bosna, a new airline serving Sarajevo. The plane is an old Yak-42 (a Russian DC-10) which is kind of scary, but it's cheap and the fastest way out of Sarajevo. The alternative is a 12 hour bus ride through the mountains.

Welcome to Zagreb. This large urban center is located in Northern Croatia and will be a brief stopover for me on my way to the Netherlands.

A funny little "car" in Zagreb. The front is a hatch and the whole thing is about 2 meters long. Oh yeah, it has 3 wheels. Good for city parking though.

A sketch of the center of Zagreb on Friday night. Hundreds of school kids cruise about popping in and out of the dozens of pubs and cafes in Zagreb.

 

And that's about it, I stopped in the Netherlands for a few days then made my way back to California. Little did I know in 4 weeks I would be returning to Bosnia to work as an Election supervisor again... but that's a different sketch book.

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Robert Grüttner.

 

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Recommended surfing:

The New York Times - Bosnia: Uncertain Paths to Peace
Features an electronic gallery of more than one hundred and fifty images by photo-journalist Gilles Peress, and a month-long worldwide discussion on war and peace in the former Yugoslavia.

Sarajevo Diaries: Adam Laurie
Diary of Adam Laurie in his journey to Sarajevo for the IHAC (International Humanitarian Aid Concern) to install their first internet server. He's got heaps of war damage pictures and a journal about his time in Sarajevo as an International aid worker.

The Bosnia Buddah Homepage
A virtual diary of Operation Joint Endevour in Bosnia from a soldiers point of view. I saw this site before I had gone to Bosnia and it partly inspired this site.

Matite per la Bosnia
An Italian language page that features comics about Bosnia. The comics are single panels and have no words, so you don't need to read Italian. Just click on the names at the bottom of the page.

Bosnia Virtual Fieldtrip
Take a virtual "tour" of Bosnia. Lots of photos and maps.

The Sarajevo Survival Map
This is an online version of a map that graphically depicts the siege of Sarajevo and it's affects on the population. The paper version was a very popular souvenir among visitors to Sarajevo after the war.