In the way from Mostar to Srajevo, I used once again a Balkan discount: my host had told me that it was really not necessary to buy a ticket, just give a coin of 5marks to the controller when he would ask me for my ticket...!  But the controller was not so stupid and saw that I was not from here, so when I gave him the 5 marks he started to frighten me, showing me a note of 10 marks, of course he wanted more! I found another coin of 2 euros and it was ok, and I made 100km for 4,5€.
 It took the train together with an English guy, also travelling in the Balkans. We spent a very funny time, talking about travelling and all the stereotypes French people have about English, and vice versa, it could have become quite a rude discussion but he was a very easy going guy, and didn't get offensed when I called him "rosbiff" (as French call English people), probably because of this great sense of humor English people are famous for having.
I left him in the station of Sarajevo that he already knew, so he could explain me how to reach the national theatre, where my host was waiting for me, then he left to Belgrade. I took the tram number 1, from the oldest full-time tram network in Europe, second in the world after San Fransisco! Inside an old man saw a French book in my bag and started to talk me in French, showing me the sights of the city we were passing.
 My host Dino is very busy, the acting school taking all his time, but he still find the time to host people, at least give them the keys of his flat to give them an opoortunity to stay in Sarajevo.   arrived in the old city, where  I started my exploration. My first impression was:it reminds me Turkey so much! Of course: Sarajevo has been the most important ottoman city after Istanbul.There is an impressive concentration of mosques everywhere in the city , more than I've seen in Turkey (over 100 in the 16th century). The old city's street are strewn with wooden houses selling a lot of products for tourists: clothes, turbans, copper service for coffee... a lot of products I had seen in Mostar. Walking in the numerous small streets of the old city is a real pleasure, in the middle of the numerous traditional shops and retaurants, it's touristic of course, but the local people are smiling and the athmosphere is warm.

I enjoyed my first Esan (muslim pray sung from the mosque 5 time a day) in one of those street, but an empty one, just for me, the few merchants there were quiet,  the sun shinning making the coppers sparkling, just a perfect moment!
  I was very enthusiastic about the city, I took the direction of a steep way going toward one of the numerous muslim cemeteries. In the Sarajevo valley where the city spreads, we can find a lot of them, completely integrated in the city. On the top of the hill stands a belvedere with a wonderful view on Sarajevo, another place for perfect moment! Another appreciable aspect is the efficient reconstruction that have been made here, it's quite rare to find some destroyed buildings like in Mostar.
 The places I most enjoyed to stroll were definitely the houses up in the valley. Those red-roofed houses are a mess: built without any symetry between each other,  old or new houses, with many different architecture, all of them with different shapes, make sometimes people using the slope space in a funny way. And it's the greatest walk I had. Moreover I felt very safe walking around in those streets out from the touristic life. People were greeting me, or didn't pay attention to me, I even played football with a small child! On the opposite of what we could imagine, the criminality rate is very low in Sarajevo, and, as a tourist, you can walk safely in the streets, and I really felt it.