Avrupa’nın orta yerinde ezan sesi, börekçiler, nargileciler, meydanda tam ortada bir çeşme, cami avlusunda oturan amcalar, batılı sarışın yüzler sanki oranın yerlileri değil de bizim şehrimize misafir gelmiş turistler gibi yanımızdan geçiyor. Avrupa’nın ortasındayız, ama türk kahvesi de var, köfte de. Ama yine de kendimizi turist gibi hissediyoruz. Saraybosna’da bildiğimiz, bize tanıdık gelen şeyler bulmamamak elde değil.Bu dingin ve zarif Osmanlı mirası şehir son senelerde Türkler tarafından...

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The Balkan countries, with their proximity and size can be visited quite easily combining a couple of places. With no prescheduled itinerary we flew to Sarajevo from Istanbul, spent the weekend in this elegant city with Ottoman heritage; then traveled to Mostar by train and from Mostar found a bus which was going to the Kotor Bay via Herceg Novi, passing the Croatian border. We then rented a car in the city of Kotor and circled the gorgeous bay and finally dropped it at Podgorica airport...

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Stari Most, the Mostar Bridge has become a symbol of the civil war in ex-Yugoslavia, when Europe and the whole world watched the savagery happening right under their nose. For almost 500 years it had stood elegantly but during the war it was destroyed in 1993 by the Croatians, and it became iconic later on. Today one can visit the small town and see the bridge renovated. It’s a couple of hours from Sarajevo, we recommend you to take the slow but scenery rail road, travel along the valleys and...

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