Belgrade
Travel Blogs from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
The train adventure continues
... 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. ...
Oops, Wrong City. I'm Sorry
... nail 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 ...
Randomly rock up in Serbia
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
... 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 ...
Serbia?
... 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 ...
Hot chicks... apparently
... 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!
... 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 ...
Bone Shaking Bridge delivers us to Belgrade
... the city (watch video). It took us ages bouncing on and off pavements to avoid traffic, to find the hostel. Belgrade is huge and fast moving. We did eventually get to New York Lights Hostel, what a ride! The evening gave us the ...
We Tried To Like Serbia...
... 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 ...
Exlporing the city
... 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 ...
Change of Plans
... . 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 ...
Rain stops play
... our first itouch skype to discover that the sun was shining in Bosham (thanks Elizabeth and Jojo). It certainly was not in Belgrade and although we kept going, trying top sightsee up at the old fortress, it was pretty miserable. We should have ...
The City that Bombed the Rest
... the new night life capital of Europe. With all of this in mind, I took the next flight I could from Ljubljana to Belgrade. I arrived a little later in the day and as soon as I checked into my hostel I met an Irish guy named Dave who was going out to a ...
?
... 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 ...
Fun in Belgrade
The journey to Belgrade took an hour and a half from Novi Sad. When I arrived I looked for the backpackers hostel that I had made reservation with online for the four nights that i stayed. The best part of my time in Belgrade was spent in the bar ...
Beograd
... boss (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 ...
A dark city
Although we slept on a park bench for quite a while. Some view from the citadel (see issue 23 for ...
Beer Festival!
... is 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 ...
Azbuka
... city made the adjustment quite easy and the past week of speaking and learning Serbian have been well worth it. Not that Belgrade or Serbia are at all perfect. The Kosovo issue is all over the media, damage from the 1999 bombing is still present and ...
Banana Wars
... this morning without even putting one in my mouth! More on that feat later. But first off, Belgrade is technically Beograd in the Serbian language and it means White City. I looked and I looked but about the only white I could find here ...
karte, pasos i pare
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, ...
I made it and geez its cold!
... were unable to go inside as it was closed. We then walked to the mall to check it out, its the first mall in Serbia and is the latest thing to go to. It was quite impressive I must admit but just another shopping centre, we wandered around for ...
HALLOO LEPA, I am in Serbia
... ; I will post more about this later. Much love! UPDATE: ZDRAVO! Hello! So we are about to leave Srbija, Serbia, and embark on our next journey. This time to Turkey. Our tentative travel plans following Turkey will be Greece then ...
Belgrade
... . Clearly we are far more mature and resourceful than since you last saw us. Back to Belgrade. The recent political unrest still seems raw and there is little reference to, or information about the country's immediate history. Everyone has a kind of ...
Novi Sad to Belgrade, Serbia
... 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 ...
Belgrade, the adventure begins.
... 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 ...
Yugoslavia
... my time getting in and out of the country. At the last second I decided to eat the cost of my bus ticket and go to Belgrade, Serbia instead. I knew nothing about Belgrade or Serbia when I arrived. I've learned it was the most populated and more prosperous ...
The Louder You Brag, the Harder You Fall
... from Scotland told him to "Shut the f**k up." The Canadian of course had to brag he has drunk "a f**ing million times" and produced a bottle of some kind of local liquor that I have heard passes for turpentine. I am just thinking what ...


