Travel blog updates should be written while still traveling - not back home, six months after the trip! Anyhow, I'll now try to finish the story of my trip to the Balkans last summer.
In Bosnia and Herzegovina my first (quick) stop was in Sarajevo. The most intriguing thing leaving me strongest memories was an exhibition about the 3 ½-year-long siege of Sarajevo. As I've grown up safely in Finland, it's very hard for me to imagine how it has been to live in such conditions.
"The siege of Sarajevo led to shortages of all supplies of life - food, water, electricity and gas. People survived on humanitarian aid, which was also sold at market places. People were often killed while queuing for water.
Electricity of gas was even less available. Survival produced new innovations. Makeshift stoves were made and used both for heating and cooking. A variety of gas and oil lamps were also improvised. Anything that could burn was used as heating fuel.
On tables in Sarajevo there was less and less food. Consequently, lawns around houses were turned into vegetable gardens. Dandelions and nettles were picked at the local green plots. A specific war cookery was compiled. People ate everything, but there was nothing..."
Some photos of a memorial wall of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina:
