Star Hostel Belgrade

... a quick video of this but I realized I'd get trampled by the stampede if I didn't get out of the way.

They eventually all passed and in reality there were probably only a 500-700 of them, all English 17-18 year olds going to the EXIT festival.

I went and picked up my ticket for Belgrade and went to the platform, the train wasn't there and the previously stampeding crowd was waiting on the ...

... Bulgaria border. Walked for a while to the freeway to try and get a ride. Was there for an hour or so before I was picked up by a Bulgarian girl going to Belgrade to visit a friend. We spend a good few hours together, nice girl. Arrived in Belgrade and went to visit my good friends Kole and Dragana, had a few beers with them and afterwards arranged to meet with the girl from Bulgaria. Went to a ...

... to mime the locking of a door, he gave me the sort of smile you give to a simpleton and then locked me in from the outside. Oh yeah I thought, that would be a great wheeze, get some poor girl in the shower and then let yourself in to either perve or steal her stuff while she is showering. Let me assure you if that latter had been the case I would have chased after anyone who tried it even if I was naked and dripping wet! But I ...

... booked our chosen hostel, received our email confirmation and then boarded the train. So you can imagine our frustration as we finally locate our hostel after 3 frosty hours of search using an impossible set of directions (describing itself as being at the intersection of two parallel streets) to discover that they had closed down a few months back. [Probably because nobody could find them]. It was freezing cold, we were homeless and every subsequent place we found ...

... South Americans curiously - creating a tumultuous back and forth. The pro-Serb writers fall back on the crux that the NATO airstrike was "illegal": not unwarranted, not immoral, not unjust. All that supports them is a technicality. A bit of CIA laziness here ensured that not only did some civilians fall victim in the airstrikes, but also the Chinese embassy, where three Chinese journalists were killed. Amazingly, they simply took an address for a Serb War ...

... we partied with in Sarajevo. They had all come through there and couldn't stop talking about it. We found it as a very loosely run, quasi-converted apartment with room enough for about 5 bunk beds but the appeal came from the fact that the people who run it and their friends just hang out in the lounge/reception area (the only room without bunk beds, though it does feature a lofted bed over the computer). So we joined in with three or four girls (only two of which actually worked ...

... of Jelen Pivo to be taken orally. One bottle per hour for the rest of the evening. Firstly however, Milan and Nemanja collected me from the hospital and we had some traditional food that Nemanja's mother had kindly prepared for us. After the excitement of the previous day and under strict instruction from doctor's Nemanja and Milan I was told to rest another day in Belgrade. Pavle agreed. It suited me fine as I was in no great rush to get back on the bike although I ...