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Europe » Serbia » West » Belgrade August 17th 2005

So my balkan trip by train started and i had to sit for almost 3 hours in a train! i slept all the way to Croatia and woke up in the morning just right after the border already in Serbia. The train was heading for Belgrade where i would have to change trains for my train to Skopje in Macedonia. Since i was in the train i enjoyed the views and took pictures, so no long story here, just pictures of what i would see along the way! The weather in serbia was still a bit bad but got better along the way and the more south we got.... read more
Depressing houseblocks
Belgrade suburbs
Belgrade bidonvilles

Europe » Serbia » West » Belgrade July 13th 2004

Hurray! I'm back on the road again. Sara (my girlfriend) and I had hoped to go to Central America for the summer. But alas due to some bad planning, some bad luck, and changes in the university year dates, we couldn't get reasonably priced tickets. So we decided to go to Bulgaria for a month. Trains from Budapest to Sophia, the capital of Bulgaria, run twice a day and go one of two routes, via Romania, or via Serbia. The Serbian route was cheaper ($90 US return) and quicker acording to the internet (Hungarian Railways) so we took that route. After a long slow journey from Budapest to Belgrade, overnight in the sitting carriage we arrived in Belgrade. Our timetable had also indicated that arriving in the morning would give us a 2 hour stopover and ... read more
The Danube and Sava
St. Sava Temple
Belgrade Streets

Europe » Serbia » West » Belgrade July 8th 2001

8 DE JULIO DE 2001 ¡YÍBELI! “¿Por qué Serbia?”, preguntó el holandés. “¿Por qué no vas a Praga, a Cracovia, o mejor te quedas aquí en Budapest? ¿Quieres que te roben, que te den una paliza? Allá no hay nada, todo está destruido, se lo ganaron ellos, pero nos culpan a todos nosotros”. Venía escuchando eso desde que salí de España. El efecto que causaba en mí era el contrario: crecían mis deseos de ir a verlo en persona, a constatar si es verdad que Yugoslavia abandonó Europa cuando la propaganda lo decretó así, si los serbios son asesinos innatos que dirimen disputas menores a través de las kalashnikovs, si su odio a lo occidental es tan profundo (y si yo, mexicano, califico como “occidental”, como el “nosotros” del holandés, frente a sus iras). Me interesaba ... read more
Jardines del Kalemegdan
Kneza Mihaila
Ministerio bombardeado en Belgrado

Europe » Serbia » West » Belgrade August 6th 1975

Belgrade Fortress was the focus of sightseeing in Belgrade. The fortress, above the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers, dates to the 6th century. The fortress is full of ramparts, walls, towers and gates from various eras. An artillery display is part of the Belgrade Military Museum. On a historical note, monitors of the Austro-Hungarian Danube Flotilla opened fire on the fortress early in the morning of 29 July 1914, marking the onset of hostilities in World War I. Another attraction in Belgrade, then the capital of Yugoslavia, was the Tito museum. The Tito museum exhibited all of the gifts presented to Tito by the people of Yugoslavia and from foreign dignitaries and diplomatic and trade missions. A trade mission from Los Angeles led by Mayor Yorty had presented a model of the Los Angeles ... read more
Belgrade Fortress
Belgrade Fortress




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