Not having slept very much in the night, my second day in Sarajevo was spent slowly walking up and down random streets surrounding the old town. I took a turn, and then another, walking uphill, and suddenly I found my way to another cemetery, and overlooking it and most of Sarajevo, a kind of small fort. A vista point of sorts, with a low stone wall surrounding it.
The view was incredible.
I tried to take a panorama picture of it, piecing together a series of photos, but it didn’t really turn out that well. The perspectives got all wrong and the light – but I think you get the idea anyway. This is poor copy of what Sarajevo looks like from above. [Click on the picture to see a slightly bigger version.]
I sat there, looking out over the city, listening to podcasts. Something new that I’ve just started with, listening to a podcast called Värvet, of which every program consists of an interview with a famous Swede of some kind. The interviews are very slow and mainly consist of the interviewee getting to talk freely about more or less what she/he wants. It is an amazing program, if you find the interviewee interesting. So there I sat, looking out over Sarajevo, listening to the very wise words of Johanna Koljonen, Liv Strömquist and Annika Lantz. (And isn’t it kind of funny, how so many of the people I look up to and admire among Swedish celebs are or have been working at the Swedish Radio. Koljonen, Strömquist and Lantz all have. Hanna Hellquist, Kakan Hermansson, Nour El Refai and Soran Ismail all do. It is a place where smart people gather and make good things together. I love the Swedish Radio and public service.)
I asked a British girl to take a photo of me, sitting on the wall with this beautiful view. But there it happened again, this thing with my camera. I even tried to put all the right settings on, so that she
wouldn’t be able to fail – but then she did anyway, focusing on the rain heavy clouds and making the photo far too dark. Oh, well. It is kind of charming, this way too.
Katja Malmborg 