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Adventures in Serbia Europe » Serbia » Belgrade By Dave090July 19th 2007David WeinsteinSo I have been in Belgrade for two days now and the first thing that comes to mind is the heat. Also, it is not as cheap as we expected. It is however, a very charming city with a lot of friendly people and nice sites. I would highly recommend it if you are in the area. I do not have time to type much but just know I am having a great time. We saw the fort, a few cool churches, walked through some great streets and experienced the great night life on the rivers. Till next time....bye... read more

Well the end of one portion of my traveling has come to a close. Today I said goodbye to the entire Weinstein clan. We had a nice time together in the Greek Isles. Crete seems like a great place but unfortunately, partly due to weather and planning, I just did not get to see a lot of it. It was nice walking through the main city of Heraklion with the family though. Today I flew from Crete to Athens with Debra, then I said goodbye to my travel partner/sister and flew on Jat Airline (the Yugoslavian airway) to Belgrade. The flight was pretty good, and I slept for most of it. Once there, I took a taxi to a hostel and met my friend Alex...my new travel partner. You can check out his travel blog ... read more

Around June time last year I can remember telling people that I was about to go to EXIT Festival in Serbia. The typical reaction was “you are going where?” After telling them the line up their interest perked up a little but few people were envious. This year the reaction was completely different. They were either very jealous or they were coming too. Despite being seven years old it took us in Britain a while to notice this festival but that all changed this year. And that wasn’t necessarily for the best. In the days of so many commercial festivals, started by big companies out to make some money, it is fulfilling to come to a festival like EXIT that was set up with the intention of making the world a better place. The first EXIT ... read more

So today, took a day trip to the 2nd largest city in this country, Novi Sad. It was further than I thought!. On the bus, along the way you can see the farms, the lowlands....beautiful. At some point you can also see garbage dumps though..haaa! Got there and it was so different from Belgrade!....more laid back. However, full of EXIT people.....which made it....umm....I just didnt like it with all of them around. I think I saw the English that got me drunk that night! " Anyways, walking around seeing the festival goers..they filled all the cafes!..made me wanna leave that city...wrong choice...should've went to Topola instead! Was actually plannign to go, but was too tired this morning and missed the bus.... Anyways, The city itself was pretty nice. All day, walked around the city...looked at ... read more

Didn't expect Belgrade to be this....developed! I mean, the shops and everything!...The standard of living is still kind of low...many street stalls and cheap food...but I like the vibe so far!..seems like a pretty nice city! I took the night train here and MY GOODNESS...it was bad. it was a train full of people going to EXIT festivals...which means...smokers, drinkers, and exciting people. The two guys in my cabin were just going in and out smoking and rolling..weeed? dunno..I was too sleepy to even look. People in other cabins were screaming and stuff... got through 4 passport checks..and I think I got a stamp from Croatia.....dunno why that is. and also 3 ticket checks.......-___-" Didn't get much sleep in the end...-o- Got to Belgrade finally!!! went to this hostel I read about online that was good ... read more