Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro Travel Blogs

The train adventure continues
Jun 28, 2008 (7 photos)

... and now is living in Istanbul but was on a visa run.  Talk about an interesting guy... We see all sorts of sights, not all pleasant to the eye, and then hop back on a train for an overnight trip to Belgrade, the capital of Serbia.

Serbia?
Aug 17, 2006 (13 photos)

... would be spending the next few hours backtracking (don't know how if the engine was broken), spend the night in Belgrade station on the train and arrive in Budapest sometime tomorrow afternoon. With nothing else to do and as it was getting pretty late we ...

Randomly rock up in Serbia
Aug 28, 2005 (1 photos)

Well, Here we go again! ..I wont say much as i havn't had the best day. Here we are in Belgrade (actually Beograd) and we arrive straight out of the train station to attempt to get something to eat as we are so worn out. The food is very different ...

A day trip to Belgrade
Dec 6, 2007

... and then I raced inside to catch the last 2 minutes of check-in time. Whew, but what a stress out! The flight to Belgrade was fine and when we got there we wondered what to do with the seven hours before our next flight. After asking at the information ...

Hot chicks... apparently
Aug 9, 2006 (24 photos)

... suggest an underlying feeling, especially in the youth, of concern in the economy, the lack of opportunities in the current Serbia and also in the difficulties, both governmental and financial, in travelling and working abroad. And, in totality, Belgrade ...

Night train from hell!
Aug 27, 2005

... we ran up with our packs on to find that we had to get on the first 2 carrages as they were the only ones going to Belgrade, however our reservations were for one of the other carrages for the sleeper, but the lady which i could barely make out what she's ...

Change of Plans
Aug 13, 2006 (11 photos)

... . Aside from adding some new and different places to the trip, it actually made more sense. The train trip to Belgrade is a lot smoother than the one to Slovenia, and it's also a lot easier to go to Italy from Slovenia -- a short train trip -- than from ...

Exlporing the city
Aug 28, 2005 (4 photos)

... to Athens. Even if it has cost me way over budget, i dont have to put up with another night train for a while :o) Serbia has been a good and bad time for me. Bad because of the terms i was arriving on and some of the service i recieved, however once ...

Belgrad
Jul 26, 2007

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Beograd
Nov 4, 2009 (24 photos)

... (the young hostel owner). We were quickly reminded of the “smoking epidemic” as I will call it in Serbia (and Montenegro). Everyone was smoking inside the hostel. You could not get away from the smell of smoke. I’m sure whatever smoke we ...

A dark city
Aug 15, 2003

Although we slept on a park bench for quite a while. Some view from the citadel (see issue 23 for more)

Beer Festival!
Aug 20, 2006 (2 photos)

... on the hill above the town and gets drunk on cheap beer. there is music and dancing and random stuff for sale, and it is totally cool belgrade is very different to what i expected. there is hardly any evidence of war at all. most of the buildings have ...

karte, pasos i pare
Dec 28, 2006 (1 photos)

karte su tu, pare su tu, pasos i vize su tu, paraglajder je tu...u pozadini UMABARAUMA UMABARAUMA na radiju tatomir toroman pusta muziku a na TVu vesti cetvrti dan strajka oruzara koji su danas usli u zgradu skupstine opstine ...kratke majce 20 komada, ...

Carry Me Back to Old Belgrade
Apr 24, 2008 (18 photos)

... the worst hotel in the world.  Please readers - avoid this one.  Hotel National.  Signs from the highway between Zagreb and Belgrade, just outside of town.  LISTEN - no matter HOW tired you are, or how many flat tires are on your car, ...

Bunny Water and Sketchy Cab Drivers
Apr 15, 2008 (6 photos)

... Serbian to the rental car guy. Nice. We realize there is a real Avis office at the swanky Hyatt Hotel Belgrade - let's go there. Then we load up and Mr. Cabbie Friend still wants to take us to the airport. After a near altercation from this ...

Serbian Slog
Aug 2, 2009 (1 photos)

Not much to report here, long hot ride across into Serbia, Border crossings now a doddle, roads suprisingly good with some beautiful countryside along the way.

Novi Sad to Belgrade, Serbia
Nov 28, 2006 (3 photos)

... quickly backed up and the inevitable horns were blaring within seconds. This would be a common theme for Serbia. After the climb I had mostly flat road to Belgrade. I was 10km from Belgrade when the rear tyre slowly started to deflate. I cycled for as ...

Belgrade, the adventure begins.
May 10, 2008 (121 photos)

... zoo for a couple of hours. After reaching the top, I'm awarded with awesome views of the whole area. Belgrade is huge, about 2.5 million people. And it's growing quite rapidly; cranes dot the new city, as do various large buildings. It was about 11ish ...

Belgrade
Aug 19, 2008

DRove through Belgrade. Looked for Bracho!!

Oops, Wrong City. I'm Sorry
Oct 9, 2005 (2 photos)

... file on the desk and shouted loudly, "It is not possible. What do you want me to tell you?" From downtown Belgrade there's a very busy pedestrian mall, probably two to three kilometres in length. It leads to a beautiful park that overlooks the Danube. ...

Belgrade
Dec 27, 2005 (2 photos)

... : Kalenegdan, Orthodox Churches Dinner: Sesir Moj Wine: Vravnac 2004, Plantaze The sign outside Sesir Moj says old Belgrade ambiance, traditional food and gypsy music. We received all three, but not in equal measure. We were seated next to a very ...

Belgrade
Jan 25, 2008 (9 photos)

... '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 reach ...

Belgrade
Aug 19, 2006 (15 photos)

... never planned on going to Macedonia and Ohrid was one of my favorite places so far. I never NEVER thought I would visit Serbia but Belgrade seems like a really nice town so far. I just hope that Ljublana lives up to its reputation as well because we are ...

Serbia
Oct 5, 2008

... and we were off again in the gloom of a damp Serbian twilight. The rough plan was to find a hotel in Belgrade. For financial reasons we lowered our expectations and pulled in to a Serbian truck stop. Why pay for beds if we have beds on the bus ? We even ...

CONTIKI - BELGRADE
Jun 11, 2009

DAY 33 - SOFIA TO BELGRADE Again today was another travel day, and a very drawn out one at that. The bus hit a detour coming out of Sofia, which added 2 hours to our trip. This was then followed by a 2.5 hour wait at the boarder. It was a very long day! ...

Pronadji Posao u Beogradu
Oct 22, 2009

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Aug 26, 2007 (14 photos)

... with the same bald guy in them. Very interesting. Is he famous? He's not ugly, but not fantastic either. Why him? So Serbia is in the part of Europe that experienced a very hot summer. I can see the effects. All the corn fields are dried up and ...

Chapter 7: The Forgotten Lands
Aug 7, 2006 (64 photos)

... (there were other issues as well, but this was kind of the final straw). The republic was pretty much reduced to Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo by the early 1990s. I left Bulgaria by bus for Skopje, Macedonia [July 19]. Macedonia was part of the former ...

Belgrade Pt. 1
Dec 18, 2008

... 200 dinar. From Bratislava I had to go to Milan to collect my luggage that was a friends houes, then 18hrs on the train to Belgrade. Was ok, shared a cabin with a crazy old german guy. We got free sandwiches, the Italian guy didn't want his so I ate it.

SERBIA!
Sep 17, 2005 (10 photos)

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