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• Bosnian Olympic Mountains - got to love freak weather

  by Clare Vooght May 18, 2012
  We wake up on Igman mountain to a blanket of snow and a coat of fog (it's May and it was 35 degrees four days ago, thanks global warming). So plans to drive off-road to Lukomir, Bosnia's highest village, fall flat. Instead, we hit Bjenasnica, the other mountain to host the Sarajevo Olympics in 1984....

• Nightlife in Sarajevo

  by Clare Vooght May 17, 2012
  Up-and-coming Sarajevo has undiscovered bars to keep the most intrepid travellers interested. And the best bit is you're not going to be surrounded by tourists. We arrive in Sarajevo just in time to check out the nightlife, and old Communist-era cinema, Kino Bosna, fits the bill nicely. Instead o...

• White water rafting in the Bosnian mountains

  by Clare Vooght May 15, 2012
  Rakija: a lethal spirit. Looks clear like vodka but smells like paint stripper. The guys that are about to take us out white water rafting have been shooting this since we turned up at the Bosnian mountain lodge - for breakfast. To be fair, I can't blame them. It's five degrees outside and the wa...

• Mostar: Bosnia-Herzegovina's second city

  by Clare Vooght May 14, 2012
  People come from round the world to take the death wish jump off Mostar's Old Bridge. The descent  into 5-metre deep water takes precision, with divers assuming a safe position to make sure they don't turbo into the rocks below.  It started, as the story goes, when local boys would try to impress...

• Day 1 in Bosnia-Herzegovina

  by Clare Vooght May 12, 2012
  "I survived the war, why would I want to swim in there with all the fish," says Mustafa our guide, poking fun at me for not swimming in the river. This is my favourite of all Bosnia-Herzegovina's charms. Their humour is drier than a nun's day out. And since I've arrived here, everyone's has told ...

• Egypt: a year after revolution began

  by Clare Vooght February 6, 2012
  CAIROIn the last 24 hours I have seen a woman dangle her toddler over train tracks and a man sitting on the roof of a pickup truck while it jerked in and out of traffic on a motorway without any lane markings. But I've also seen one of the world's seven wonders.   Straight after arriving in C...

• Why pop a pill to stop you getting wasted?

  by Clare Vooght November 3, 2011
  Stay-sober tablets: just have a soft drink instead How many times have you woken up with an intense feeling of shame after
a heavy night? With the pang in the pit of your stomach that doesn’t go away after a bacon sandwich. The sense of dread that tells you you’ve done something really,...
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