Snowy Sarajevo

A view from my AIESEC office

Outside the Faculty of Economics in Sarajevo..

Sarajevo is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to. One of the best things about it is the tranquility of its appearance. It has a river that goes through it, right through the middle, called Miljacka. It has four gorgeous Olympic mountains surrounding it.

For those who don’t know. Sarajevo hosted the 1984. Winter Olympic Games.

The thing I love about the city the most though are not just the kind people, calm life style and pretty Turkish café bars…

… it is the snow during the winter.

This morning I woke up to find the city in a perfect peaceful setting.

I have the chance to live on the top of one of the few mountains inside the city and see the centre from my balcony. You can only imagine my smile this morning.

Sarajevo looks like a city from a fairytale as one of my close friends from Prague would put it. It looks so clean and calm, so innocent.. I suppose it’s like anything in white…

The snow melts quickly but at the moment there is more than 2 meters of snow in the mountains (only 20mins by car from the centre). This will be a perfect skiing season.

Even though it gets something like -20 degrees C the weather is charming and soooo romantic. You get to wear lots of wooly jumpers and matching scarves, gloves and hats. You have to wear big knee high boots and learn how to walk on the ice which gets up to 20 cm thickness on the pavements.

The first year I moved here in 1999. I kept falling all over the place, learning how to walk like a penguin. Now I managed another skill.

I can’t wait for more snow and the winter to officially begin.