Health and safety in Sarajevo

Today's planned trip to Mostar was cancelled due to the state of the roads (by the time we'd got there it would have been time to come back) so we got a Sarajevo tour instead which was fine - but the only time I felt cold all week.
A beautiful city with a turbulent history - we saw the old Ottoman part of town, the later Austro-Hungarian part, the corner where Archduke Franz Ferdinand was shot in 1914, and buildings damaged, rebuilt or patched, bridges and street corners where people lost their lives to snipers as they tried to get to a bakery or water supply in the siege of 1992-1995. We also heard throughout the week from our guides of the experience of that last war and their hopes for a better future.
We visited the Orthodox cathedral, old Orthodox church, Catholic cathedral, mosque (one of many) and synagogue which is now a museum showing the life of Jews in the city up to the holocaust.
We ran the gauntlet of people like this shovelling snow off their roofs after one of the buildings from the 1984 Winter Olympics had its roof collapse under the snow.
Dimly in the distance you can see the hills from which the Serbs fired on the city in the war (when they talk about 'the war' they mean '92-'95).

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