Serbia

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My two weeks in Serbia went by so fast! It was an awesome experience and a once in a lifetime opportunity to live like a local in former Yugoslavia and see my friend at the same time, one of the best decisions of my life I would say. Here's some anti-climatic pics.

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Photos

This is what Serbia looks like
Weird dogs with broken paws running about. Also there are tons of sunflowers.

The Danube
Not as blue as they say

Drinking cocktails
Things cost about a half to a third what they would cost in Vancouver or Barcelona so we thought hey why not

Jelena in front of her old high school
They are trying to fix things up and paint buildings cheery colors but Jelena said the toilets in her school are just holes. Aaaack

Posters of some guy
He is the former leader of the Radical Party and he is now in the Hague and there are posters of him absolutely everywhere in Serbia

The bus the bus the bus
I was a bit fixated on the buses but they are so cool looking, just not too fun to ride so for the same price you can ride...

The modified van
filled with people where you sign that mysterious liability form. Honestly I am impressed I was not seriously maimed in a traffic accident.

Me in Republic Square, Belgrade
in front of the obligatory guy-on-the-horse statue

A popular street in Belgrade
Jelena said that after every new government is instated (and it happens a lot in Serbia) they change the names of the streets and sometimes the town in Serbia so that its quite difficult to remember and sometimes the different generations will refer to the same street as different names because it keeps changing... very Orwellian. But this is a nice looking street.

The Royal Palace in Belgrade
When Slobodon lost the election and wouldn't step down in 2000 millions of people came to Belgrade and stood on the lawn and protested. Good for them, fight the power!

The Parliment
Oh another anecdote: the passports in Serbia still say Yugoslavia because they don't want to change it to Serbia and Montenegro because Montenegro wants to leave so then they'll probably have to change it AGAIN so everyone has passports for a country that doesn't exist.

Comments

[mAJA]

gOTHIC cHURCH!!!???
I am from Novi Sad ! And I this church is not Gothich it is Catolic Church. I am born in Novi Sad and I know that information for sure !

[Kate Hildebrand]

Ha ha, sorry. I though it was in neo-gothic style.

[deja]

The pictures were great.I am a 14 year old serbian girl that was born in novi sad I came here when I was little but went back in the year 2004 i took photos everywere i went we even went 2 beograde 4 a couple of days and sa sait. sava church its was awesome

[Peter]

Cathedral
Well, both of you seem to be right, the cathedral is build in neo-gothic style, but according to Maya, it is of catholic religion. (to Maya, if she reads it: gothic is not a religion but an architectural style, eg. the Parliament in Hungary is also built in neo.gothic style.) Peter (from Budapest)

[Stevan]

Gothic is a style
Catholic is a religion. It is a Catholic church built in the gothic style. You are both right :))

[cedo]

Nice to see my town Pancevo again