There’s no substitute for simply walking around when you’re trying to get a handle on a new city. The morning I arrived in Sarajevo, I quickly dropped off my backpack at my hostel (the excellent Franz Ferdinand Hostel http://franzferdinandhostel.com) and started a long, but rewarding self-guided walking…
One of the great joys of solo, independent travel is that you’re not on anyone else’s schedule. You can do what you, when you want; travel at your own pace and plan your activities accordingly. While solo travel may seem scary at first, once you taste this…
Despite the horrors and hardships Sarajevo suffered during the 1990’s and fully admitting that the ghosts of those events are still living very close to the surface in minds of many citizens, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital today is a bastion of hope, warmth and vibrancy. Nowhere is…
That Will Have You Asking for Second Helpings I was recently reading one of my favorites travel blogger’s posts on the decline in quality of Lonely Planet guidebooks over at Nomadic Matt and I found myself agreeing wholeheartedly. As a vegetarian of over two decades I find their…