Kalemegdan Belgrade

Friday, September 14 - Sunday, September 16

Belgrade/Beograd

My penultimate stop on the month of discovery, Belgrade seemed to be a natural top to the sundae of experiences I had built around the Balkans, and with particular focus on former Yugoslavia.

Beograd, the former capital of (the multiple versions of) Yugoslavia …

... were doing. He said it was the country people stirred up and brainwashed by the military into thinking of "The Great Serbia" and the need for ethnic cleansing of Albanians and Muslims to achieve this.There was also electoral inequality in the Parliament ...

... too many borders, so a flight was the only way.  And the only flight I could find gave us an 8 hour layover in Belgrade, Serbia.  We hadn't really planned how we would spend these 8 hours, or that we would get zero sleep the previous night, so ...

... inside a nicotine enhanced ticket booth to take in a good view of suburban Beograd from a tower at the Kalemegdan Citadel which overlooks the Danube and Sava Rivers.  Save money on cigarettes...just take your time paying and inhale deeply.   In ...

... a nice place though.  A little odd, but no stranger than Prague, in my book.  The Kalemegdan is a beautiful park, the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers is impressive, and the pedestrian streets around the old town are certainly worth a ...

... 's weekday like any other. And therein lay the frustration of my visit. Such vibrancy had hinted at the party atmosphere and nightlife scene for which Belgrade has become famous, but in my solitude I had failed to embrace it, and it too had failed to ...

... ;走到有上千年歷史的卡雷美丹碉堡(Kalemegdan ...

... . In questo momento la tensione tra i due stati č alle stelle. Lascio perdere i consigli di Marko e mi dirigo verso Kalemegdan, un parco che circonda quella che una volta era la cittadella fortificata della cittā, arroccata sulle rive del fiume Sava. A ...

... out with the staff, a couple of whom I get on with really well. Today I finally managed to get out and see some of Belgrade.  I walked up to Kalemegdan Fortress, which is about a mile away (in a straight line) from the hostel, but turned out to be ...

... is evidence of struggle in certain areas of Belgrade, the city seems to be slowly healing itself. Tito's grave, Kalemegdan and Skadarlia were a few of the traditional Yugoslavian attractions which we enjoyed very much. The internet here is extremly ...

... go. We didn't end up pulling in until almost 8 am. I just got more sleep. When I found my hostel, Belgrade Eye, they told me the price had gone up and I would just have to pay the difference. I argued a bit but wasn't getting anywhere. I had already ...