Is there a former-Soviet-bloc voting influence? Well, why don’t you tell me? Influential factors 1. Neighbors 2. Culture (religion, political, common language, etc) 3. Taste in music Now let start the dissection. Voters -> Votees (listed by the points they received, in descending order) BALKAN(Neighbor and Political. These countries are the ex-Yugoslavia) Croatia -> Bosnia, [...]
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Laundromat
Here is the only laundromat I found (actually my friend found) which does regular washing beside dry cleaning. In USA, laundromats are everywhere, but good luck finding such in Sarajevo. I moved into this apartment in Koševko Brdo which did not have a washing machine. So for a few months, i had to hand wash [...]
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Burek is another popular semi-fastfood meal, second-famous after cevapi. Burek is a common term to refer the pie with meat inside. In Croatia, Burek is the same pie with cheese instead. Pie with cheese is sirnica (a bit sour), with spinach is zeljanica , with potato is krompiruša, a bit salty). Cost of each ranges [...]
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righCOPY Ferhadija 33 033 237 133 061 211 541- www.rightcopy.ba – rightcopy@rightcopy.ba – Open: 8 to 20 Mon to Fri, 9 to 16 on Sat, and 10 to 15 on Sun. I paid 30KM for a book with 450 pages.
Read the rest of this entry »Summer drink, Boza
It’s crunch time! I only have a few more days in Sarajevo, so my friend took me to the center for a brief tour called "Have you tried this and that?" We went to a sweet shop at the intersection between the oOld and Austrian part where she ordered me the cold drink Boza. Well [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Outbreak WWI 1914
When you hear of WWI, you will hear about the major players such as Germany, Austria, Russia, France, England, etc. But it was an incident in Sarajevo in which a nationalist Serb assassinated the heir to the Habsburg throne, Archduke Francis Ferdinand on June 28, 1914 that led to a chain of human nonsense called [...]
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