Blogs from Smederevo, East, Serbia, Europe

Our last day on the Danube and as has been the case for the last week, even though we've ridden by the Danube we rarely saw it. A bit sad really. To leave today, we had to ride our way across the very big city of Belgrade. It was mostly up the side of a very big hill. We had climbed a good way before descending to cross the bridge over the Danube and I pulled over nervously looking ahead. It looked like a freeway entrance to the bridge. I thought maybe I had routed as a car instead of a bike, but no, we were meant to ride on the bridge with all of that traffic. We nervously entered and then just rode as fast as we could across the bridge which was almost two ... read more

This wasn't a tour of the "castles" is Serbia, and those aren't Neuschwanstein type of castles but rather fortresses/palaces/mansions, and we weren't planning on visiting just those old manors, but rather decided to spend a weekend just driving around Novi Sad and through Vojvodina (province) and visiting some historic places we knew about, but never had time to see. It just happened that we saw a few "castles" in which, once upon a time, some important people lived. Some of these houses are now museums, hotels, some are in good condition, some are dilapidated. I wanted to see Fantast, a castle near Becej (town in Vojvodina) built in late 19th century by a wealthy Serbian family who also owned a few other mansions, which we also visited on our way there. Aleks wanted to visit a ... read more