Belgrade
Travel Blogs from Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Leisure in Belgrade and a problem solved
... which was used by the firm's employee's. The same clinic. They were very helpful and identified the names of the drugs available in serbia and wrote them down on a post-it note. He directed me to the nearest chemist who dispensed them over the counter. ...
A gentle day.
... ; she said he was drunk. Not sure how you'd word such a conversation. They seem to take the approach that this is serbia and these things happen. I'm no longer keen on this hostel; there are others with different inhabitants. But I need them to look ...
AND SERBIAN GUYS WANT TO BE YOUR FRIENDS
... Serbs. But, Bill Clinton and NATO bombed Serbian bridges and airports for nearly three months straight. And now, Ana said, "Not even Montenegro likes us." Montenegro, which had the same religion as the Serbs, recently declared independence ...
Blogging on the water...
... Russian instead of English and regrets it. There's no money for travel and its a struggle. Serbian men are w*nkers and why did Nato bomb Serbia. It was a wide ranging discussion! She also talked about visiting a children's home where many children are ...
Best thing about Belgrade was leaving the place
... ; We jump on the train and 7.50am we leave Belgrade, thank god. The train is going very slowly and it feels like I could walk faster. We say goodbye to Belgrade and its not a city we would return to in a hurry. Another SHITHOLE. ...
I met Serbian Spongebob!
... about it as you were walking around which is a shame as I later on I was reading about the siege of Belgrade by the Ottomans in 1456 and it has a really interesting history. There were some awesome views onto the confluence of the Danube and the Sava and ...
Belgrade
... countries I have visited. This city has a violent history, being rebuilt 40 times in its 2300 year history. Tourism within Belgrade and especially Serbia although its developing at a rapid pace, does not fully exist in terms of ease, but I guess that ...
The White City
Belgrade (Beograd) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. It has an urban population of 1.2 million, while the metropolitan area has more than ...
Serbia
Stumble on hostel across street from Train station. Visit castle and park at junction of Danube and ... Rivers. Long talk with Serb Security guard in park. Late train to ...
Belgrade, Serbia August 6-9
... 1:10 am isn't something I enjoy.... OK, so the first thing to say I suppose is that although this site says "Serbia and Montenegro" this is now just Serbia since Montenegro recently became its own country. It was pointed out to me that the Montenegran ...
Spring Break: Yugoslavia
... school I spent a lot of time debating about where to spend it. I almost went to northern Greece, but in the end more adventurous Serbia and Bosnia won out. From Sofia it's a straight forward trip - one overnight train. I didn't bother to pay for a sleeper ...
Belgrade
Belgrade is another surprising city a could only find one building as evidence of nato bombings acouple years ago. lots of history, very similar to ...
Dawson's Creek : The Belgrade years
... were met by an array of communist concrete monstrosities, which although ugly were pretty impressive. Zagreb was kinda a small enough city and Belgrade had a much bigger city to feel it. Belgrade is friggin hot. Croatia was hot but Belgrade has taken it ...
Better Off In Belgrade
... castle walls looked stunning. The outer part of the fortress offers a magnificent view of the meeting of the Danube and Sava Rivers through Belgrade. The view was made better with the setting sun. We headed back to Belgrade train station with plenty of ...
sightseeing in belgrade
... is basically the same as Bulgarian, only with better quality meat. And the beer is better. We had a great day walking around and talking. Belgrade isn't so different from Sofia, just a bit nicer. What really sets it apart is having a nice pedestrian area ...
Bombed out buildings
... ; We got a bus out to a nearby satellite town called Zemun which was quite pretty but uneventful. It had some nice views of Belgrade and we were slightly hungover from the night before so we were happy to bum around and enjoy the good weather. In ...
Entering Tito's territory
... out that they're somewhat hidden behind other buildings, but didn't have a chance to go back and look again. The main tourist attraction in Belgrade is the fortress, Kalamegdan. The fortress includes inside and is surrounded by large ...
Dives and bombs
... is probably Belgrade's best tourist attraction. While not as ugly as I feared from my first impression, Belgrade is a city more interesting than beautiful, and more political than cultural. The military museum in the fortress shed some light on why this ...
Belgrade August 18-20
... luggage). Escaping scot free on the scooters somewhat offsets the luggage. Greg is the only one I've talked to that didn't crash a scooter. Anyway, after a fun time at the Beer Fest, it was time to head to the coast and the newly independent ...
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 ...
Belgrade
June 25 to 27: a city that survives in style
... can travel freely in this country, visa not needed. This tells you how utterly stupid some wars were. I was in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. No matter what you think about the Serbs, you have to admire their resilience. Barely ten years after the end ...
An awful night's sleep, but a nice city...
We got on board our overnight train from Ljubljana to Belgrade at 9.15 last night, and commenced the worst night's sleep ever. Every time I was just about to fall asleep, we'd pull into another border station and large people (and one surprisingly short ...
Nothing worked, and it was drizzling dismal.
Through my own misjudgement, I entered Belgrade with just one $20US bill, my credit cards, and a pocketfull of Romanian Lei worth about $50US, in Romania but not a cent anywhere else. No ATM system link to Europe or the US, no money for food, barely ...
Race across the Balkans, Part 2
The bus to Belgrade took forever, and made millions of stops in small towns in southern Serbia. A family of Macedonians traveling to Belgrade decided to adopt me after seeing my US passport at the border. This involved feeding me more food that I could ...
belgrade
i intended to have a stop off in macedonia before headin up to belgrade but the only train arrived at night and the hostels were miles from the train station so i fucked it off to avoid bein mugged. came straight up thru kosovo to belgrade the serbian ...

