Frenchman, a Cuban, a Bosnian and an American are stranded in a lifeboat fighting to survive after their ship has gone down. They are trying to show bravado in the middle of a bad situation. The Frenchman pops open a bottle of French wine he’s saved from their sinking sink, takes a few sips and [...]
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Sarajevo Hostel Haris (Review)
A friend of mine visited Sarejevo during her Europe’s tour last year. She stayed at Hostel Haris and wrote a short review about it after much “pressure” from me. H’s review Basically it is a small hostel for backpackers that has 14 beds in 3 rooms, and 2 bathrooms that everyone shares. It’s up on [...]
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Four astronauts land on the moon. An American, a German and two Serbs. The American jumps out and plants a flag on the surface exclaiming that US derring-do and money made their mission possible so the moon will belong to America. The German pulled out the flag and stuck in a flag from his country [...]
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A friend helped me to search for last-minute accommodation in Sarajevo for a trip I didn’t take last Christmas vacation. Almost everything was booked, those available were overpriced or only for groups of females or couples, nothing for single man. Eventually, she found Hostel City Center (www.hcc.ba). Since the hostel is new, it offers attractive [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Where to buy Grbavica movie soundtrack?
I’ve searched the net and checked out Amazon, but I haven’t seen any sign that such CD existed. A friend from Sarajevo promised to look around, but I doubt there was a soundtrack CD made for this movie. Do you have any ideas? Thanks.
Read the rest of this entry »Balkan for Beginners – Where Is It and What Does It Mean? (Part 1)
Map The Balkan border is a disputing issue as Slovenia is included on some maps and not on the other, and the part of Romania which belongs to this region is unclear. Balkan Scissors blogs a short but fairly detailed post describing the Balkan: The identity of the Balkans owes as much to its fragmented [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Slovenia Begins EU Presidency
As of January 1st, 2008, Slovenia becomes the first new EU member (countries which join the EU in 2004) to resume the 6-month EU presidency. Some of Slovenia’s main concerns are to smoothen its former neighbors’ acceptance to EU as well as ease the tension regarding Kosovo’s independence. [Link, EU2008]
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