Serbia Travel Blogs

THE PEOPLE WHO PICKED ME UP
Jul 24, 2008 (3 photos)

... , $80; Austria, 1 night, $0; Slovenia, 1 night, $0; Croatia, 4 nights, $20; Bosnia & Herzegovina, 1 night, $0; Serbia, 1 night, $0; Bulgaria, 0 nights, $0; leaving me $130 for Turkey.  I carried bread and jelly, and a bunch of peanut butter from ...

Montenegro for dinner... really???
Jul 1, 2008 (8 photos)

It's JULY!!! REALLY!!! I head down to the hotel and enjoy the "complementary" breakfast before heading to the rocks/beach to secure a good spot... We spend the morning swimming and relaxing beachside.  I head upstairs to get the rental car ...

Montenegro and Serbia
Sep 13, 2007

... my best mate, blah blah blah, sob story i know, blah blah, nothing left in England, you know the usual shit" Kerry: "So why Serbia?" Serbian John: "Ex wife wont talk to me, blah blah, cant see my kids, blah blah (yes he kept repeating blah blah) Then ...

Chapter 51: Drunken Island Hopping
Sep 2, 2004

The Friday morning ferry to Korcula left at 8am, which was unfortunate but manageable. The boat was enormous and full of backpackers, which made me feel like I was back in Thailand! The trip was freezing and windy at first due to poor seat choices, but ...

back in the 15th century
Jul 25, 2008 (100 photos)

POLSKI: Rano musielismy przejsc jeszcze kawalek, zanim dotarlismy do restauracji Cetinje, ktora okazala sie byc baza wypadowa autostopowiczow. Stala ich co najmniej czworka, w rownych odstepach od siebie. My zrobilismy sobie ...

The train adventure continues
Jun 29, 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.

Independence beers in Budva
May 20, 2006 (21 photos)

... in Asia so bring it on! Most of the trip had been traversing the alps at the borders of Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. With mountains higher and more jagged than any I'd seen so far, we barrelled along a wonderfully serpentine canyon for many ...

Serbia?
Aug 17, 2006 (13 photos)

... out of the concrete platform. So stopping at any and every rundown station platforms we crossed the border into Serbia, a country that wasn't exactly in our Europe travel plans. Stopping at the station (thankfully there was actually people waiting to ...

Croatia into Montenegro
Sep 1, 2007

Over the past ten days we have continued down the Dalmatian coast, stopping on the island of Hvar, the walled city of Dubrovnik, and into Kotor in Montenegro. We have also ditched the tent, leaving it rotting in a Dubrovnik camp site. We made the mistake/ ...

Beautiful Durmitor
Jul 3, 2008 (10 photos)

After crossing the border from Croatia to Montenegro we could tell from the scenery, the roads, the litter, the cars, shops etc. we were in a different country and finally feeling like we are at last in Eastern Europe. As we drove along the coast the ...

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 ...

What is a Fjord?
Jul 11, 2005 (5 photos)

Having never seen a fjord in my life the lure of another stamp and another walled town was just too much to resist, we had to investigate! Our mates Tadek and Karin had mentioned Montenegro was great and the Kiwi we had met on Korcula had also ...

A day trip to Belgrade
Dec 6, 2007

The primary goal for today was to get from Istanbul to Sarajevo. There are no cheap direct flights so we flew with JAT, the Serbian airline, via Belgrade. This involved a seven hour wait between flights. First things first. We needed to return the car, ...

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

... , it turns gold". "The moment of everyone's renaissance will be broadcast on TV and the internet." What...? So, to the Top 5. Serbia uses the cyrillic alphabet just to mix it up a bit. The cyrillic alphabet? Killing me. A whole heap of new, random ...

Montenegro
Dec 15, 2007 (11 photos)

... Montenegro for the day today. Dubrovnik is just 38 kilometres from the border with the world's newest nation, Montenegro, which split from Serbia just over a year ago. We had booked into a group tour and were asked to wait outside of the Pile Gate at 8:30 ...

Night train from hell!
Aug 27, 2005

... late, but we had to wait till 11:50pm for it to arrive. I've been informed i require to get a Visa for Macedonia in Serbia, so i will have all of tomorrow to search for one. Well we were sitting in the train station when the night started going down ...

Change of Plans
Aug 13, 2006 (11 photos)

... Bosnians and Croats, even people of Bosnian and Croat descent, who never lived in the countries, harbor a certain hostility toward Serbia. I was hanging out with a Croatian-Canadian in Dubrovnik (two actually) and he would cringe when I mentioned how I ...

Where the hell is Montenegro
Jul 12, 2005 (5 photos)

I bet you are sitting there thinking, where the fuck is Montenegro ????? Before we left, our mate, Tadek kept saying, you have to go to Montenegro, you will regret it otherwise. Then we met Andrea in Korcula and she kept saying that there was this ...

Exlporing the city
Aug 29, 2005 (4 photos)

... to head 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, ...

Who knew they were separate countries?
Aug 20, 2007

... if you want to be your own country, good luck to you.  However, whilst in Macedonia, in anticipation of visiting "Serbia and Montenegro", we changed about 400 dollars worth of some currency or other into Serbian dinars (or whatever the hell they are ...

the unknown serbian adventure
Jun 3, 2006

... queue. The mountains were beautiful, anyway, as we drove past. Oh, and when we stopped at a rest area somewhere in Serbia (no longer 'Serbia and Montenegro', no matter what the country list on my log says) I got some money from the ATM, thinking we ...

The capital ...
Sep 29, 2009 (10 photos)

Hallo zusammen, da ich bisher alle Hauptstaedte auf dem Balkan besucht habe, wollte ich auch die Hauptstadt von Montenegro besichtigen. Viel gibt es dort aber nicht zu sehen, nach einer Stunde war ich fertig. Die Stadt ist zwar sehr alt (das roemische ...

Belgrad
Jul 26, 2007

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Oct 22, 2009 (1 photos)

Photos from Serbia
Aug 25, 2005 (17 photos)

... and exceptionally cheap beer. Here we spent the end of the afternoon chilling out before heading back to town. Nick had gone to Serbia with Richard a year or two before and returned with stories of the meat there and how no one can do meat like the ...

Traipsing up a mountain anyone?
Mar 26, 2007 (10 photos)

Moving on from Bar, we took a minibus to Kotor, a tiny town, population 22,500 and settled in... Upon arriving via a very interesting minibus experience (the driver was smoking a cigarette while driving and sponging the moisture off the window..), we ...

The Flight
Sep 5, 2008

I am currently somewhere over the Artic Ocean flying to Beijing.  I have been on the plane for the last 7 hours and 20 minutes.  I have my own tv in the seat in front of me which has a map feature that tells how fast the plane is traveling as ...

Novi Sad -so sad to leave...
Nov 12, 2009

... on staying 1 night in Novi Sad but ended up staying 3 and loving it. Didn't even plan on visiting Bosnia & Herzegovina or Serbia, but really glad we did decide to at the last minute as it has been wonderful and I've seen and learnt so much and met ...

Beograd
Nov 4, 2009 (24 photos)

... Swedish 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 ...

A dark city
Aug 16, 2003

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