Blogs from West, Serbia, Europe - page 23

Day 5: Stayed in the apartment most of the day. Read up on some Irish history, checked emails, posted some photos, etc. About 4 pm, Dejan and I got some burek and then I caught a bus to downtown Belgrade to meet up with Ivan (he works downtown). We then walked to Knez Mihailova (a pedestrian street and very busy on the first nice, sunny day of the year) and toured around Kalemegdan (a massive fort overlooking where the Sava and Danube rivers meet... built around the 14th century). Belgrade is definitely more modernized than when I was here last. There are ATMs everywhere (had trouble finding *one* the last time I was here), nice stores that you would see in Western malls, and so forth. Oh, and the government enforcing laws, such as that all ... read more

El dia anterior por la noche habiamos llegado al Belgrado, se veia muy diferente a Budapest, las muchachas se vestian diferente, la ciudad tenia otro aspecto, y habian mas carros viejos, tambien habia mucho menos grafitti que en Budapest. Al dia siguiente habia pedido en el desayuno en hotel unos huevos con jamon, yo acostumbrado a los estandares de Mexico y Estados Unidos a ver mucho jamon en el huevo, cuando vi los mino trozos de jamon se me quitaron algo las ganas casi no comi, mi mama se acabo comiendo el huevo. Salimos del hotel, y empezo a llover, era una llovizna primero fui a ver una Mezquita, pero solo pude ver un vistazo, pues no me entendi con la mujer que resguardaba la mezquita pues no hablaba ni ingles y mucho menos español. Despues ... read more

Ok.. I will explane the picture later..but isn't it pretty crazy???? Anyways...Lloyd and I headed south of Dubruvonick through Bosnia...Yikes..just for a minute...and along the coast of Montenegro...The more southern of the the two...It was a beautiful bus ride...and we met a really nice Spanish couple who we hung out with in Bar for 5 hours while we watied for our train...the town of Bar sucked but we just chilled and hung out at the grocery store anf continued our search for "travel speakers." IE somthing we can plug into our ipods so we both can listen and what not..Lloyd and I decided to not make train reservations and because...Who does that? we're too good for that right? i mean we have rail passes we dont' need reservations...Everything was going fine and dandy...we had our own ... read more

I have to be fair although it’s nowhere near as fun. I am only here for one day, not very much time to shape a conclusion of the city. Moreover, it is Sunday. As with most European cities, only the minimum of shops is open. As it is midsummer, half the city is in Budva, either burning itself on an uncomfortable and dirty beach or recovering from their hangovers from the night before. It is practically the sole destination promoted in every travel agency’s front window. A few Serbs may have accidentally gone to Turkey. But they were not paying attention and missed the special week’s offer for hotel and entertainment on the Montenegrin coast. If Belgrade were any more lifeless, everyone remaining in this very ordinary metropolis would be driving around in hearses. Extremely ordinary ... read more

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