Blogs from Serbia, Europe - page 16

So We've been here in stara moravica no for about 5 days. Nothing too crazy has been happening. It's a pretty small town. We basically just garden and walk around lol. We'll probably be heading Back to Novi Sad in the next few days. One thing I would like to bring up is that some farmers still use horse and buggies here!!! How crazy is that!!! I attached a picture so you can see! Actually........We just go back from a little excursion to Subotica. Another town more North closer to Hungary. It was pretty awesome. Nice little sea wall out there, and some old buildings! A great day overall! Another Canuck game tonight? Go Canucks Go!... read more

Another small city that's nice to walk around but felt like I could've been in any other European city - a cathedral, a river, trams, shops, cafes, parks... There's a fortress where you can get good views over the city and the Sava and Danube rivers. Spent Sunday afternoon cafe hopping in the rain with a Finnish girl and then back to the train station for the night train to Bar.... read more

The monsoon season had arrived, as we waited outside Aerodrom Nicola Tesla Beograd for the Number 72 to surface. The short skirted Tesla girls of last September were going to be a bit thin on the ground, unless there was an improvement in the weather. The roads were gridlocked as we crawled along in the traffic through the tower blocks of Novi Belgrade. The journey was in contrast to the last arrival in blazing sunshine, when at least you can get a perspective of where you are. The flats looked menacing, until the familiar sights of shopping centres and a McDonalds came into view before the crossing of the Sava. The sun was shining the next morning and it was like a pleasant summer’s day in England. There was hardly a clamour for the turnstiles at ... read more

I was alone again - after a couple of weeks travelling in cars, buses and more buses with Jon we finally went our separate ways in Sarajevo. Jon had caught his bus north to Slovenia and I had boarded my flight to Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. I wasn’t expecting much. Belgrade, according to Wikipedia has been battled over in 115 wars and razed to the ground 44 times. Sounds like they're a combative lot then and now. And I knew that modern Belgrade was extensively bombed during two campaigns in World War II, the first undertaken by the Luftwaffe in 1941, and the latter by Allied air forces in 1944. Oh, and in 1999 it was heavily bombed by NATO, during the Kosovo War. The strikes lasted from March 24, 1999 to June 11, ... read more

The most memorable thing about travelling is getting a local touch. Unfortunately for the romance seekers out there (you know who you are), I'm not referring to meeting local girls. I mean nothing beats meeting people who live in the place you're visiting, and who take the time to welcome you into their houses, their lives, their worlds. This was especially the case with Serbia. Through a distant contact, we were given the address of a woman in the capital, Belgrade, and she was expecting us. Her name was Violeta and that was all we knew. Getting to her apartment from the station was a major problem, the streets on our map were written in familiar Latin letters, while the actual street signs were written in Cyrillic. Plus it was dark. That photo on the right ... read more