Belgrade
Travel Blogs from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
another day
I flew from Novi Sad to Belgarde in less then 2 hours. i recomend you go on a expensive flight because the cheap ones are REALLY ...
Belgrade
belgrade is hilarious. and beer fest continues to be brilliant. i rocked up at the festival last night, having been promised a serbian beatles cover band, only to be confronted with some sort of serbian death metal cover band. not quite the same. wandered ...
The Balkan Express Part 2
... traditional Yugoslav pastry), was delicious. Unfortunately, Chad was soundly sleeping and missed out. 11:49 PM - Finally, we arrived in Belgrade and were excited to chase down one of its famous hamburgers. We got off the train with Elena and ...
Beautiful Belgrade
... 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 ...
A little diversion
... ), so decided to go via Serbia instead. Cutting a not very long, but slightly intoxicated story short, Ashley, Yuji and I decided to go along to Belgrade with him for a few days. Have to love being flexible with the travel plans :) After a nervous ...
Wild child of the Balkans
... in Serbia's capital and largest city. After the heavily Austro-Hungarian feel of Vojvodina and its cities of Subotica and Novi Sad, Belgrade is definite move closer to the Serbian soul. There are still some definite Central European influences here, with ...
Unrivalled Atmosphere.
... girl I contacted through Hospitality Club, Katerina. I contacted her hoping she'd be able to host us in Montenegro, but she was studying in Belgrade at the time we were passing through. Nevertheless she met us for a drink with some friends and gave us ...
Belgrade
After Albania we were pretty hard critics on poor old Belgrade. It was nice, but we missed the Albanians. Just a quick stop before heading to ...
Sightseeing in Belgrade
... to glow! Disappointed as we were by the military museum, Bro and I decided that since we had walked around everything in downtown Belgrade, and we didn't want to see any other national museums, we would leave Belgrade early and take the next bus to ...
The Third Leg
... peoples had given to Tito. The pieces from Ethiopia were the best. There were also some local costumes from various rural groups in Serbia and the former Yugoslav states. Towards the end of the tour Veljko told me that he has a few family members living ...
Belgrade, Serbia
... think we're going anywhere and I knew deep down that he was right. It's also funny because when I think of the word Serbia, I think of a run down country with little or nothing to offer but much like Macedonia, this is completely untrue. The city center, ...
Belgrade
... with Sofia the temperature was. Sofia was wet but still reasonalby warm; however, on the way to Belgrade I saw the first snow and in Belgrade itself it was pretty close to 0 degrees celcius. Once I got into the hostel, I was a little confused as there ...
This Is Belgrade Calling.
... journey up started the day before after we had to literally waste an entire 12 hours in the dead end capital of Montenegro, Podgorica. We arrived at 11:00am and our train to Belgrade left at 11:30pm so it was quite a test on our stamina. We managed to ...
Day 304 - Ballad of Belgrade
Belgrade is a storied city - a living history of cultures long gone and forgotten. Layers of civilizations are stacked deeply in the corners and crevices of each worn brick building, each stone and each statue. From the Turks to the Austrians, to ...
In the middle of a heatwave
After a long, suffering over night bus ride, we arrived in Belgrade at 8am . It had a very different feel to it than Bosnia and Croatia. We didn't waste time any time and headed straight to the hostel. It was a bit of shame that we couldn't check in yet. ...
White City
... yet?). So after 8 hours on the bus traversing the beautiful northern Bosnian mountains and valleys we arrived in Serbia which is flat as a pancake, and motored into Belgrade. This is a town that knows how to go out. There are bars everywhere, the ...
Istanbul - Sofia - Belgrade
... picture in front of the "Alexander ...kov" church to prove that we passed in Sofia before riding to Belgrade. Easy day riding into Serbia with a hassle free border crossing. Serbia is not part of the EU so I thought that it ...
Venice, Zagreb, Belgrade
... very friendly and obliging. I ended up staying in a hostel opposite the station. I intended to spend about a week in Belgrade practicing yoga and getting to know the city but I struggled to find a yoga centre, and the ones I did find were on ...
Stuck Again
... it was Budapest and we would be able to catch our connecting train to Prague. No such luck. After some confusing conversation with the conductor we discovered that we were still in Belgrade (7 hours from Budapest). We would miss the train to ...
Capitals Beginning with B
Belgrade, Serbia's white city, one of a collection of eastern European capitals beginning with B. Bratislava, Bucharest, Budapest. It is also my final destination on this leg of my trip. People have asked me, why Belgrade? No one ends their trip in ...
Convicts, war criminals and parties...aka tuesday
... didn't slow down Dragan's drinking in the slightest. It was then that he began to trash talk the current president of Serbia, and his mom became very angry with him looking around to see if anyone was hearing what her son was jabbering about. ...
End of the third leg
... had given to Tito. The pieces from Ethiopia were the best. There were also some local costumes from various rural groups in Serbia and the former Yugoslav states. Towards the end of the tour Veljko told me that he has a few family members living in ...
The train trip to Belgrade
For this entry i will copy Tash's entry i enjoyed Belgrade and it was a beautiful city but i also have bad memories and Tash says it all. ( i will add bits and pieces) So we are here in Serbia.. beautiful day, the sun is shining.. the birds ...
Happy New Year!
... method of heralding in 2008. [Plus my very first white NYE in Eastern Europe] * * * Belgrade was an interesting city to visit the first time, and on a return visit spilled out a little more of its charm. Central to this is the ...
Everybody is Kung Foo fighting
... head feeding the birds so I don't think that I should take it personally. You can definitely tell the difference between Serbia and the other countries that we have visited - definitely a lot poorer. In Belgrade you could see the distinct differences ...
GETTING HOSTEL WITH THE HOMIES IN BEOGRAD
Pictures for "Hypertravel: 100 Countries in 2 Years (Backpackers' Guide to the World and the Soul)" by Hardie Karges, more info available at ...
A bit of sorting and a lot of lazing
... I'm a bit of a spare rib. Finally I retreat to the room. And am worked by the sound like a car backfiring but much sharper and higher. But its intermittent although it sounds very close. And it does on. I turn off the lights and hear the serbian nurse ...
