The most recent mini adventure...

Yesterday, as promised, we headed to Jajce, via Travnik. It was quite a hefty drive, but such a pretty one. Travnik is an old city about 1 and a half hours from Sarajevo. It has a well preserved old walled town and fortress, which visitors can get into for 2KM per adult. Inside they have information about "stari grad" (the old town), and amazing views of Travnik and the surrounding area.

Bridge to Stari Grad Travnik

We spent about an hour walking around the old town and taking pictures before we got back in the car and headed for Jajce, stopping on the way for a coffee. Unfortunately the sun gave in at this point and allowed the rain to start. Didn't spoil our day, but it would have been so much prettier in the sunshine.

Jajce Vodopad

Jajce is a beautiful town. It has a huge waterfall and a walled city. What I noticed about Jajce was that an effort had really been made to present the town well. Fresh flowers had been planted everywhere and there was much less garbage than you get used to in Bosnian cities. We took a walk around the old town for some time. Walking right upto the Royal fortress and around to the miniture mosques that seemed strewn throughout Jajce. One was so small we could not imagine how people could have ever gathered in it. A lot of Jajce was destroyed during the war so a great deal of refurbishment has been done and everywhere you can see plaques with written information about buildings that are no longer standing. (Mr B engraved them).

The waterfall is beautiful, however there is some restoration happening on that too, as apparently the water is erroding the rocks too fast and will divert the water away from Jajce, so the area is spending millions trying to prevent this from happening.

There are numerous restaurants, bars and cafes in and around the old town, some sunk into the hillside. A definite recommendation if you are visiting this area.

I almost forgot to mention that on our way back we stopped in Kakanj (kaka - poo....thought you might like that sis, always comes back to poo). Mr B's friend, from his time in Turkey, has just opened a Cevapi restaurant and take away there. He opened it on Saturday and is trying to serve good quality product.

Cevapi is basically a sausage without a skin made with beef, salt and sometimes extra spices. They are generally served on bread with onions or kajmak (milk froth). As with all food these days most try to make it look better or more by adding water, fat, MSG, etc etc, but he is trying to just stick to the natural and tastier, in my opinion. way of making it. The locals, however are used to cevapi that looks bigger and is "juicier" (full of water, fat etc), so he will have a way to go before he convinces people.

As MR B has been doing some printing for him we ate for free and were the taste testers for him. Free food - will travel!