281 Open Phones: Making Friends; Sarajevo — 20 Years After the Siege

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🗓️ 31 March 2012

⏱️ 52 minutes

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A Bosnian journalist tells Rick what it was like to live through the Siege of Sarajevo twenty years ago, and what it's like to visit the city today. Rick also shares tips with listeners for overcoming shyness and making friends while traveling, including meeting long lost relatives in the Old Country.

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0:00.0	This year, April 6 marks an anniversary in Bosnia that won't come with any cake.
0:05.0	Twenty years ago, Serbian forces and the surrounding hills began attacking the city of Sarajevo,
0:11.0	and life changed for everyone in the capital of the newly formed nation of Bosnia
0:15.8	and Herzegovina.
0:17.0	I was just completing my secondary school and I didn't expect that I will literally from the classroom
0:21.7	get into the trenches. Bosnia and
0:12.0	Bosnia-D I will literally from the classroom get into the trenches.
0:23.0	Bosnian journalist Amir Tellerbacherovich joins us today on travel with Rick Steve's to tell
0:27.9	how his dreams of going to college were interrupted by nearly four years of war.
0:32.6	I even learned how to dig the grave.
0:34.3	When the grave diggers was so busy that they didn't have time to prepare the graves for the
0:38.4	others.
0:39.4	We'll hear how people survived the horrific siege and what it's like to visit Sarajevo today as
0:44.3	it rebuilds its reputation as a city of religious and ethnic harmony. We'll open up
0:49.6	the hour checking in with listeners with tips for making friends in our travels at 877 333
0:54.8	Rick.
0:55.8	I'm Rick Steves.
0:56.8	Thanks for joining us.
0:57.8	It's Travel with Rick Steves.
1:00.8	Its nickname is the Jerusalem of Europe.
1:03.0	Yet in 1992, Sarajevo became engulfed in a horrible war and endured a bloody siege.
1:09.0	The city had hosted the Olympics just eight years earlier,
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