Update: Got a confirmation from a reader who paid 1000 CZK/40 EUR for him to pick up two large, heavy boxes from Sarajevo and deliver them to her dormitory. She thought it was a fair price. Also perhaps, you can negotiate with him the fare for driving you there. If you need to send presents [...]
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Questions of the Week
Update: Answers added [Thanks novala!]1. How to get from Graz to Sarajevo? Is there some bus or train between these two cities? Graz is a city from Austria, in the south-east, close to Slovenia. Check Eurolines. There is a bus from Graz to Sarajevo.http://www.eurolines.at/fahrplan/Inhaltsverzeichnis/S_7.pdf 2. Where can I find an online movie and theater directory [...]
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I’ve just returned from my hiking trip to the Banat region in Romania. Will post more about this trip after more researching and collecting my thoughts. As usual, I had a lot of trouble deciding what to pack and how to fit them in my backpacks. To save me time and headache in future trips, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Job Listing – Research Assistant for a British Academy (Aug. 29, 2007)
Location: University of Kent, Canterbury Closing date: 12 noon Wednesday 29 August 2007 Salary: £22,332 – £25,889 pa pro rata (pay award pending) Starting Salary: £22,332 pa pro rata Contract: Fixed-Term from October 2007 to December 2008 & Part-Time (0.35fte) Brief description: We are seeking a Research Assistant for a British Academy Large Grant project [...]
Read the rest of this entry »View and Edit your Photos with Irfanview
Irfanview, the brainchild Bosnian-born Irfan, is a cool computer application which lets you view photos and perform light editing on them. Before Irfanview, I’d used a few photo viewing and editing programs and didn’t stick with any particular program until Irfanview. Adobe Photoshop is too heavy with many extra features I don’t need for photo [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Learning Bosnian
One reader sent me an email asking me for tips in learning Bosnian as well as recommend books, software to download. Well, I’m not a very good person to ask because I didn’t make any progress with my Bosnian. To summarize, I sucked! However, I can write about how I actually learned Bosnian, what I [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Virtual tourist site
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Bosnia_and_Herzegovina/Sarajevo-359732/TravelGuide-Sarajevo.html I will check some of these recommended places out before giving further 2-cents
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Here are some of the hostels I checked out (not staying) while walking around town. LjubiÄicaBaÅ¡aÄarÅ¡ilja M.M. BaÅ¡ekije 65, Sarajevo+387 33 535 829 (phone)+387 33 232 109 (fax)061 131 813 (mobile) taljubic@bih.net.bahostelljubicica@yahoo.comhttp://www.hostelljubicica.net I saw the price as low as 6 euros/person/bed/night in a 8-bed dorm on the price list sticking up the window. However, you [...]
Read the rest of this entry »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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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.
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