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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 » North » Pancevo July 26th 2005

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. ... read more
The elaborate altar
Ivana, me and Jelena in the monastery
The ceiling and chandelier

Europe » Serbia July 4th 2005

This is a two-part entry covering what turned into a 24-hour overnight train ride through Serbia from Sofia to Zagreb. It contains my thoughts on the countries of Eastern Europe and on train travel in general. July 4th Hardcore Eastern Europe. I remember arriving in the Sofia train station this morning. It was done in the completely drab and yet imposing communist style. The signboard was in Cyrillic only. Information didn't know or wasn't telling me anything. One booth would just point in the direction of another booth. When I returned to the original information window the woman behind the glass just said bluntly, "I do not know" and pointed away from her booth bidding me to get out of her sight. When I continued standing there in bewilderment she just stared past my shoulder like ... read more
Countryside
Serbian Crossroads
Belgrade Train Station

Europe » Serbia June 19th 2005

Zdravo! Some background first: A few days before I left for my Balkan Bash of a trip, whilst I was still in Greece, I posted a question on Lonely Planet's website, on a thing called the ThornTree. Basically I posted my itinerary, and asked people to recomend how I can improve it. And that they did! I arrived in the city of Niš in Serbia in the late afternoon from Skpoje (Macedonia), which was a city I was told to visit by one of the ThornTreers. It was raining buckets of water. Every person I asked for help at the bus station, didn't speak english. I knew absolutely nothing about this city, other than it was a semi-major city in Serbia. Heck, I didn't even know how to pronouce Niš! (It is pronounced, and spelt 'Nish' ... read more

Europe » Serbia June 12th 2005

Last week was the beginning of my second departure, and in many senses, the greater departure of the one made previously. I am no longer departing for a place where I will live for some time as I did in Slovenia. I am now on the road, traveling to many places varied and distant. I will make my home within the journey, in many different and temporary places, but enjoying each place for what it has to offer. It’s an interesting lifestyle; completely out what you might call a comfort zone. But that is the beauty of travel. Slovenia has now come and gone. I don’t know exactly when I may return to visit again, but I know that I have taken away from it many spectacular memories as well as many friendships that will serve ... read more
Kotor From Above
The impossible step
However not completely impossible...

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

Europe » Serbia » South » Nis August 5th 1975

Crossing from Bulgaria to then-Yugoslavia brought a pleasant surprise. "Americans?" asked the Yugoslavian border guard as he came on the bus. He proceeded to give a hearty welcome to Yugoslavia to our group of Americans and remarked that President Ford had visited Belgrade only two days before. In 1975, the territories of Bosnia, Croatia, Serbia and Slovenia were still united as Yugoslavia and Josip Broz Tito was its Communist leader. From Gradinje, the winding highway followed the Nišava River and rocky Sićevo Gorge to Nis. Then the highway turned north, through farmland, to Belgrade.... read more
Sićevo Gorge
Railway Bridge over the Nišava River
Nišava River




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