Fun fact time...did you know that Sarajevo is home to the oldest tramline in Europe? The Austro-Hungarians used it as a test site. Or that Sarajevo hosted the 1984 Winter Olympics? Or that Bosnia managed to avoid McDonalds right up until 2011, when the first one opened in Sarajevo? Not that I had any desire to visit it, as the local food here is deeeelicious. Especially the stuffed stuff. That is, cabbage/vine leaves/capsicum/onion stuffed with mince and rice in...

A young Bosnian man whips his shirt off and jumps to the other side of the banister to dangle precariously over the water that glistens below. A crowd gathers excitedly as he hops along like a tightrope walker in a circus, calling out to the crowd with confidant gusto while his friend shakes a hat at them, encouraging them to dig deep enough into their pockets to convince this daredevil to brave the 25 metre drop into ice cold water. He puts on a great show, but ...