After about 28 hours in Sarajevo, my first impressions of this city are very positive. The hotel is great, the food is good, the people appear to be very friendly and hospitable, and the scenery is beautiful. I was quite surprised to see, in the hotel's bookstore, a copy of the Qur'an next to a book and magazines with pictures of scarcely clad women, and to notice that restaurants are open and alcohol is openly served while banners in the street wish us all Ramadan Mubarak (it is spelt slightly different, but my Bosnian is not as good as my Arabic, I am afraid).
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