I was about to go for a chronological diary of my trip but then, due to my limitations in english, i thought it might be more interesting to do it by « themes ».
But before, let me anyway have a small part about what i did each day.
Sarajevo from above
Friday 06th november – Arrival to Sarajevo, under the rain. Gather with my parents. Coffee with my brother. 1 hour walk in the old town, by night, and along the river. Restaurant with my parents and my brother, a bit out from the centre of the city.
Saturday 07th november – Walking in the old town, the city centre. Sarajevo Museum (Ottoman part). Restaurant « Kod Keme » right in the centre. Rest at my brother’s. Restaurant by night in the mountains, « Kibe », with a very nice view.
Sunday 08th november – Quick visit and tour in the center of Sarajevo. A coffee on a terrace of the BBI Centar, with a nice view.
Monday 09th november – Day trip to Mostar, 2h30 by train from Sarajevo. Amazing view during the journey. Stari Most. Visit of the Croat part as well. Nice restaurant along the river.
Tuesday 10th november – Rent a car with Budget. Journey to Dubrovnic (Croatia), 5h more or less from Sarajevo by car. Visit of the old city of Dubrovnic, inside and outside the walls. Stunning view of the Adriatic Sea. Dinner in a restaurant in the old town . Sleeping at the unique youth hostel of the city.
Wednesday 11th november – Quick tour and breakfast in Dubrovnic, and last view of the sea from there. Back in the car. Herceg Novi, Kotor’s lake, Perast and Kotor (Montenegro). Visit of Kotor. Lunch in Stari Grad. Quick 30mn walk up the old walls of Kotor. Journey back to Sarajevo, through Mostar. Amazing sunset in Perast. 6 hours drive back to Sarajevo, enjoying the roads of Montenegro, Croatia and Sarajevo, where it is so difficult to overpass cars.
Thursday 12th november – Visit of Sarajevo and the surroundings. National Gallery of BiH (exposition about how some Spanish diplomats during the WW II helped Jews refugees to get a visa and escape from Holocaust). Ate some variantes of bureks in one of those typical bar/coffee place that seels burek. Big walk up the mountains. City Bar in Sarajevo.
We have been a lot on the road
Friday 13th november – Journey back to Madrid!
Now, you can read my different articles (already or soon available, i’ll add the links when articles are available) about my trip to Bosnia/Croatia/Montenegro:
- Sarajevo and its surroundings
- Eating, drinking and going out in Sarajevo
- Mostar
- Dubrovnic
- Herceg Novi, Perast, Kotor and Kotor’s lake
- Interesting and funny stuff about Bosnia.
Go also check my brother’s blog (www.guillaume-daudin.info/blog) or wikipedia for more informations.
Most pictures are on my FlickR, but i will put a selection of pictures directly in my blog, and probably add a gallery to directly browse each FlickR related gallery.
Family trip in Bosnia and Sarajevo
Sarajevo. A weird city to visit, no?
Bosnia. A unusual country to visit, no?
Panorama of Sarajevo
Many people were really surprised (and afraid) when i told them i was going one week to Bosnia and more particularly to Sarajevo.
Well, i have a good reason. My brother’s there, doing an internship. So we decided to go for a big family trip there.
I just arrived to Sarajevo, and my parents are arriving in less than 30 minutes in the coffee place i am right now. They will stay til Tuesday whereas i stay til Friday morning. We don’t have a plan yet, i have to admit we relied a lot on my brother to organize everything… On my side, i didnt find the time to look a lot into it, between moving, trying to know people and Brussels; plus i was sure my brother will handle this great! …
Well actually, for the days after my parents leave, we have some ideas already, but nothing booked yet, so let’s not spread the word at the moment.
So i will try to relate you guys every day of this trip, its a quiet unusual city and country to visit, so im sure you will be interested in that.
Folks, stay tuned.
Muse – The Resistance Tour @ Anvers
On Monday 02nd November, i went to see Muse gig at Anvers (Antwerp) in Belgium with my two really good friends Isabelle and Vladimir.
That concert was just amazing. Unbelievable. Seriously, i have no words to describe how great the concert was. So i will probably repeat some words like incredible, amazing, … Sorry in advance for my limited vocabulary 
Muse playing Uprising at Anvers. You can see the three towers, the screen, and the platform.
The concert started in an incredible way. Music and lights off. Finally ( we were waiting already for 45 mn). The three towers we were seeing starts changing. They were actually three huge screens. Little by little they light up, until they get completely shining with white rectangles… meanwhile, some music has started. We can now discern white electronic shapes climbing some stairs (we are still talking about the screen). They climb, they climb, it seems they are all equal and they will never stop – it actually kind of reminded me The Wall from Pink Floyd, you know, this kind of « we are all equal and we are all doing the same exact thing without really thinking »… Suddenly, one of the « electronic » character starts falling, followed by other…
And BAM.
The whole screen suddenly falls down like a curtain. Lights off. Big red explosion, and…
There THEY are. The three musicians of Muse.Matthew Bellamy, the lead vocalist, guitarist and pianist. Dominic Howard, the drummer. Christopher Wolstenholme, the bassist and backing vocalist. The three of them inside the towers. Up on a platform, playing Uprising, their last single. Everybody’s jumping.
The moment we were all waiting for.
Muse is playing.
Everybody’s crazy, screaming, shooting, jumping, dancing. *We wiiiill beee victoooooriouuus*.
Then, they go with an other of their new album song: Resistance. My favourite of their new CD. Amazing as well. Some kind of programming codes passes by the big screens. They are still on the platform. The end of the song comes…
Silence.
And then. New Born starts. WOW everybody gets even crazier. Can you imagine this? They play New Born as a thrid song. To me it’s a mythical song. I can’t imagine what the rest of the concert will be like. They are back right on the stage, and playing with some green light. Lots of green lights. Well. Green laser lights. Everywhere in the Sportpaleis. Everybody has his head watching towards the roof, full of green lights. Amazing visual effects again.
I won’t describe every visual effects or every songs they played. I remember that at some point there were big plastic balls over our heads. At some other point, a big map of the world describing the United States of Eurasia they sing about. For Undisclosed Desires, a very nice visual effect on the screen playing with lots of colors – imagine the « Resistance » CD front image on the screen, and animated. Everybody probably lost part of their vocal chords on Plug In Baby….
Muse playing at Anvers
You had to be there. It was truly unbelievable. There was only one recall, and they ended the concert with a great Knights of Cydonia. 1h45 of great show.
Here is the complete set list (with a star are marked the songs from the new album)
We Are the Universe (intro music)
Uprising *
Resistance *
New Born
Map of the Problematique
Supermassive Black Hole
Guiding Light *
Interlude + Hysteria
United States of Eurasia *
Feeling Good
Unintended
Undisclosed Desires *
Starlight
Plug in Baby
Time Is Running Out
Unnatural Selection *
Recall:
Exogenesis: Symphony Part I (Overture) *
Stockholm Syndrome
Man with a Harmonica intro + Knights of Cydonia
And now some links :
- Muse twitter : http://twitter.com/muse
- Muse website: http.//www.muse.mu
- An article in french from La Dernière Heure does a very nice sum up of my impressions… it is here (and well, better written ) – thanks Vladimir.
And it was just amazing. Seriously, i have no words to describe how great the concert was.
The concert all started in an incredible way. Music and lights off. Finally ( we were waiting already for 45 mn). The three towers we were seeing light up. They were actually three huge screens. Little by little they light up, until they get completely lightened… meanwhile, music has started (intro of We Are The Universe). We can discern white electronic shapes climbing some stairs (we are still talking about the screen). They climb, they climb, it seems they are all equal and they will never stop – it actually kind of reminded me The Wall from Pink Floyd, you know, this kind of « we are all equal and we are all doing the same exact thing without really thinking »… Suddenly, one of the « electronic » character starts falling, followed by other…
And BAM.
The whole screen suddenly falls down like a curtain. Lights off. Big red explosion, and there THEY are. The three musicians of Muse. Inside the towers. Up on a platform, playing. The music of Uprising, their last single. Everybody’s jumping. The moment we were all waiting for. Muse is playing. Everybody’s crazy, screaming, shooting, jumping, dancing. *We wiiiill beee victoooooriouuus*.
Then, they go with an other of their new album song: Resistance. My favourite of their new CD. Amazing as well. Kind of programming codes passes by the big screens. They are still on the platform. The end of the song comes…
Silence.
And then. New Born starts. WOW everybody gets even crazier. Can you imagine this? They already play New Born as a thrid song. I can’t imagine what the rest of the concert will be like. They are back on the stage, but playing with green light. Lots of green lights. Well. Green laser lights. Everywhere in the Sportpaleis. Everybody had his head watching towards the roof, full of green lights. Amazing visual effects again.
I won’t describe every visual effects or every songs they played. I remember that at some point there were big plastic balls over our heads. At some other point, a big map of the world describing the United States of Eurasia they sing about. For Undisclosed Desires, a very nice visual effect on the screen playing with lots of colors – imagine the « Resistance » CD front image on the screen, and animated. Everybody probably lost part of their vocal chords on Plug In Baby….
You had to be there. It was truly unbelievable. There was only one recall, and they ended the concert with a great Knights of Cydonia. 1h45 of great show.
Here is the complete set list:
We Are the Universe (intro music)
Uprising
Resistance
New Born
Map of the Problematique
Supermassive Black Hole
Guiding Light
Interlude + Hysteria
United States of Eurasia
Feeling Good
Unintended
Undisclosed Desires
Starlight
Plug in Baby
Time Is Running Out
Unnatural Selection
Recall:
Exogenesis: Symphony Part I (Overture)
Stockholm Syndrome
Man with a Harmonica intro + Knights of Cydonia
In french, this article from La Dernière Heure does a very nice sumup of my impressions http://www.dhnet.be/cine-tele/musique/article/287756/de-la-muse-de-qualite.html (and well, better written )
