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The Bright Side of Bosnia

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The Bright Side of Bosnia The Bright side of Bosnia - Last week (1st week November 2019) and in April 2018 I traveled through Bosnia. The main goal of these trips as to collecting information and to speak to people to find answers on my questions to finish my book “United Nothing” ( https://lnkd.in/emGVX48 ) which will describe not only my experiences during the war in Bosnia in 1994/1995 but also my fight against the ghosts after the war. Publishing date will be spring 2020, first edition will be in Dutch. During these trips I stayed in Zvornik, Srebrenica/Potocari, Tuzla and Sarajevo and visited also the mighty mountains of Majevica, the old castle of Srebrenik, the old city centre of Mostar and Sarajevo, the valley’s of the rivers Drina, Lasva and Neretva and many smaller places as Kravica, Lukavac, Santici, Busovaca, Doboj, Simin Han, Jajici, Divic, Bratunac, Vlasenica, Olovo, Visoko and Jablanica. The country was 24 years ago a war-thorn area, however it is worthwhil
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Blog 1: The Bright Side of Bosnia

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The Bright Side of Bosnia   During the last week of April my son and I will through large parts of East and Central Bosnia. I am back in Bosnia for the first time since I left the Bosnia 24 years ago. The country was then a war-thorn area, destroyed by the civil war which resulted in more than 100,000 deaths and more than 2 million displaced people. On https://back2bosnia.blogspot.nl/   I will tell the dark side of Bosnia from my perspective.   However it is worthwile to don't focus on the dark side only. Bosnia has lots of breathtaking nature, mountains, rivers, villages and cities. During our trip I will share also the bright side of Bosnia.  
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Blog 2: The Bright Side of Bosnia: Sarejevo

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Sarajevo   Sarajevo is the capital of the country and is the crossroad of East and West, Catholic, Jewish, Orthodox and Islam, Habsburg and Ottoman history and that all in a convinced place. Below you find pictures of Sarajevo's top locations. Latin Bridge On this bridge Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed which lead to the World War I and also the end of Habsburg rulers in Sarajevo.       Eternal Flame The Eternal Flame commerates the city's liberation from the Nazi's and Ustashi on 6th April 1945.   Vijećnica (Library - City Hall) The Sarajevo City Hall, built in 1894, was one of the famous buildings of Sarajevo and was completely destroyed by the Serbian shellings of Sarajevo. Before the attack on 25th Augustus 1992 , the library held 1.5 million books and manuscripts including over 155,000 rare books and manuscripts. After years of restoration, the building was reopened on 9th May 2014. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria arrives at
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