Today I am leaving Sarajevo and going to Niš, Serbia. I am really excited about this. I had done and redone this part of my trip 83274398274 times. I wanted to go to Niš so bad. I cant explain it, I just NEEDED to see it. That happens sometimes, you just become completely fixated on seeing a certain place for unexplainable reasons, you just FEEL that you need to be there. That is Niš for me.
I had originally done a “quick picture post” of Sarajevo, here.
I had not planned to spend any time in Sarajevo. I wanted to go to Mostar, and planned to use Sarajevo as a home base to travel to Mostar from, as a day trip. However, after arriving in Sarajevo, I just felt like I wanted to be here. I can’t really explain it. I don’t know if the city affected me in any way, if I was just mentally exhausted, if I was so over Rome and all the people or what. I just knew I wanted to stay here. I woke up early and was raring to go. I wasn’t really sure WHERE to go though. I hadn’t planned on staying here, so I hadn’t done any research. I hopped on a tram and took it to the end of the line and walked around a bit. I found a cool park. 
Sarajevo has so much beauty. I could not get enough of gazing at the multi colored houses in the hills. 
Today I am leaving Rome and heading to Bosnia. This section of the trip is both where I got all frustrated while booking it, and then even more frustrated living it. I originally wanted to go from Rome to Puglia and take an overnight ferry to Dubrovnik. Well today is Wednesday and guess what day of the week that ferries do not run? Yes. Wednesday. So I opted to fly to Bosnia. This was the start of several days where I watched my “Best Travel Planner EVER” crown turn to rust before my eyes.
Hotel check out is at 11:00 My flight is at 4:05. I decide to go to the airport this early because I don’t want to be in Rome anymore. Plus my flight has changed and I am not all that sure of the new time because there is no wifi in my room and I am limited on what I can see on my phone.
There was no one upstairs when I checked out of my room. I just left the keys there. I had to restrain myself to keep from leaving a note about YOU LYING BASTARDS. THERE IS NO WIFI HERE.
I walked downstairs and the dude who checked me in is out there! He asks me how my stay is. I say “there is no wifi” and he says “yeah…” in this sheepish tone that causes me to FLIP OUT on him. I am so pissed off, I am yelling about how I never would have stayed here, this is bullshit and false advertising. I basically just keep yelling at him. He basically just keeps standing there. I finally walk away while giving him the finger. I am still so mad about this. It is so irrational but I hate liars and to knowingly lie about having wifi when you don’t just really set me off. The hilarity of all of this is that this is the first trip ever in my life where I have brought a laptop type thingy. On any other trip to any other place I have been to in my past, I wouldn’t have even known that this hotel is a liar liar pants on fire.
Sarajevo is a very bi-polar city. As you are walking around, you see many beautiful buildings, such as this one. It is the Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts, housed in a former church:
Beautiful, right? In fact, it is so beautiful that you may have overlooked this bridge in front of it:
Festina Lente bridge. It is so freaking cool looking.