If you’d like to combine a visit with a high-speed cruise along the Thames, see Ice to see you Tickets priced £12 for children, £15 for adults and £40 for two adults + two kids are available from The Venue Formerly Known As The Millennium Dome is situated at North Greenwich underground station on the Jubilee line. The brainchild of legendary rock promoter Harvey Goldsmith, the permanent £9 million digital interactive exhibition will feature memorabilia from over 100 artists including Oasis, The Beatles, The Who, Amy Winehouse and David Bowie who, among other items, has donated the Pierrot costume he wore in the ‘Ashes To Ashes’ video. If you need an excuse to nip over to London, the British Music Experience opens in the London O2 on March 9. Recommendedīosnia & Herzegovina: The Bradt Travel Guide is lovingly compiled by Tim Clancy, a former aid worker who’s been living in Sarajevo since 1992 and also runs his own eco-tourism company. Domestic wines like Stankela, Gangas Blatina and Zilavka are all top notch and cost just €2 a bottle in supermarkets. You can eat, drink and get extremely merry in a sit-down Sarajevo restaurant for under €20.Īs much vino as your baggage allowance permits. Also worth risking your arteries for is Bosanski ionac, a hearty meat stew that every Bosnian housewife/husband has a recipe for. Not, we hasten to add, that we’re in favour of such uncouth pursuits.īosnian fast food favourites include cevapi (lamb and beef sausages), dolma (stuffed vegetables) and burek (filo pastry pies filled with either minced meat or a feta-like cheese called travnicki), which all weigh in at around a euro. Most are clearly marked with a skull & crossbones sign, but anywhere that looks overgrown is worth avoiding.Īs long as the beer, wine or loza (a type of raika) you’re necking is local, a tenner will get you royally ossified. Roped off scrubland, which hasn’t been checked for landmines. A popular picnic spot for locals, it’s also home to the 100m high Skakavac Waterfall and hundreds of miles of hiking paths, which wind their way through unspoiled pine and beech tree forests. ![]() Take a Sunday stroll or – better still – a pony and trap out to the Bukovik Mountains. What’s the touristy thing you have to do? If you’re avoiding going on the piste, June and September are both hot without being too humid. Host as it was to the 1984 Winter Olympics – the only time the games were staged in a communist country – Sarajevo has some superb ski resorts on its doorstep. Our preferred way of getting there though is to grab a cheap Aer Lingus ticket to Dubrovnik and, after availing of some Adriatic sun for a few days, bussing it via-Mostar (another must-visit town) for a combined fare of around €250. Return Dublin-Budapest-Sarajevo flights with Malev Hungarian Airlines start at €375. ![]() Many Bosnians are sore that it took so long for the rest of Europe to come to their aid during the Balkan conflict – and with extremely good reason! Not to get embroiled in one of the heated political discussions that break out at the drop of a hat. Hurrah! Also, as much as Bosnians love kids, there wouldn’t be a whole lot in the way of family fun. They’re doubtless on their way, but for the time being the city is largely bereft of multinationals and imported goods. Starbucks/Big Mac/Dunkin Donut/Guinness addicts will be hard pressed to satisfy their cravings in Sarajevo. Before the Habsburgs took over, Sarajevo was under Ottoman control, which explains the proliferation of mosques, public baths and palaces in the Old Town. Although the scars of war are still evident – not surprising given the average 329 shells a day that rained down on the Bosnian capital during the conflict – all of its landmark buildings have been restored to their former Habsburg-era glory. ![]() To see how magnificently the city is recovering from the Serbian siege, which between 19 resulted in the death of 12,000 of its citizens.
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