Just being in Bosnia: a slice of Sarajevo

It's one of the most famous countries in the world, and still one of the most mysterious. cafebabel.com visits the notorious Balkan capital at a historical time: it has been fifteen years since the end of the three-and-a-half year war in the nineties, marked by the Paris-signed Dayton treaty which split the country into two constituent Serb and Croat-Bosniak parts. The European Union has just signalled that the ethnically diverse Bosnians are welcome to travel without visas. Bosnia is clearly chugging forward. So are its young people, whether they are headscarved film directors, internet cafe owners or forward-looking, majority female students who are creating the city's first arthouses or working in a hostel in the centre, reading up on Bosnia-European history and being paid in euros. It's hard to isolate the dynamism of Sarajevo's youth when its past created this present not so long ago. The mountains of the valley capital sit on our shoulders to bring you this special edition of Orient Express Reporter