Ember Travels

Spring in Sarajevo is dreary and unbearably cold (at least when we visited in May). The city greeted us with billowing clouds ascending the surrounding mountains, and a layer of consistent drizzle pattering to the ground. It felt as if the city was in mourning.   With a weather forecast with a high of 6 degrees C (42 F) confining us inside, it was the perfect day to delve deep into Bosnia's troubled past. We trudged through the street puddles to the Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide.   The museum depicts crimes during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995. After the breakup of Yugoslavia, Bosnian Serbs started an uprising with support from the Serbian government to secure the ethnic Serb territory within the region. The war is most known for the mass genocide and ethnic cleansing that took place during the time.   Images and artefacts from victims were on display with anecdotes recounting their experiences of capture, abuse, rape, to...

Good morning/good afternoon/buen dia where ever you are in the world! It is a lovely Tuesday morning in Sevilla, Spain and this marks the two month aniversary of my journey! I want to thank all of you, who I know and don`t know for your comments, messages and endless enthusasium for my travels. Your support has been amazing and it´s always nice to hear from a familiar face! A little bit about my travels...I am excited to be in a country where I  finally  speak the language! I arrived in Spain yesterday and plan to spend a few days in Sevilla, then head to Grenada where I can hopefully find a place to settle down for a month or so to practice my Spanish and meet some locals. Keep your fingers crossed, I´m not sure how the whole, "I want to rent a room for just a month" thing will go, but things always seem to work out, so I´m not too worried. A friend recently commented on my luck saying that I may actually be the center of the universe, so I´ll just bank on that :) Either way...