Sunday, 9/27/15
This overcast chilly day set the mood for our bus tour through war-torn Sarajevo, witnessing the evidence of the devistating 1425 day siege of this city in the 1990's. On the edge of town we walked through a piece of the famous "Tunnel of Hope", a mile long tunnel dug from the outskirts leading under the airport toward the city, bringing supplies in and transporting wounded out. It was sobering listening to personal accounts from our city guide, who lived though this time.
Back in town we first visited the largest city mosque, then a former synagogue, now a museum, where we saw the well-known Sarajevo Haggadah, the famous 14th century book of Jewish prayers read during Pesach, lost during the expulsion of the Jews in World War Il, but returned to Sarajevo, as told in a moving novel, "People of the Book".
Lunch in the Muslim neighborhood with friends and later, a wonderful home hosted dinner with a "merry widow" and her adult daughter, lightened our mood considerably tonight with much laughter and a deliciously prepared home-cooked dinner.
Pix: the tunnel; synagogue; home-hosted dinner
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