Martin Bell is to lead a tour of Bosnia and Croatia for Greenbee Specialist Travel ( www.greenbee.com ), a service offered by John Lewis.

The eight-night tour, costing from £1,995 per person, departs on September 28 and covers the Dalmatian coast of Croatia as well as Mostar and Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

During the tour he will give talks on the history of Bosnia and on his time reporting from Sarajevo , where accommodation will be in the Holiday Inn, the base for many journalists during the war. In Telegraph's travel supplement on March 31, under the title ” Welcome to Sarajevo ”, BBC foreign correspondent Martin Bell made an emotionally charged return to Sarajevo for Telegraph travel.

Here is an excerpt from Welcome to Sarajevo - Martin Bell's Introduction to Bosnia:

” There are few undiscovered cities in Europe . Sarajevo is one of them. For all sorts of reasons, mainly war-related, travellers have been reluctant to go there unless, like soldiers and reporters, they had a professional reason to do so. Now the dangers are in the past and Bosnia is as safe for visitors as any country in Europe - safer than most, in my view. And for old hands like myself the most remarkable innovation is the freedom of movement granted by the blessed absence of roadblocks.” - link to whole article