Star Hostel Belgrade

... and legacy of Vanama, the name under which Danilo and his college friends produced their chart topping underground recordings. For those of you who don't know Danilo, he's gonna be the next celebrity code, mark my words. Which is to say, changing the course of the music scene in Serbia is what he did on the side.<br><br>I also became acutely aware that I've been mispronounced Danilo's ...

... at 5:30 am close to the hostel. How I got there is anybody's guess, where was the rest of the crew, and how they got back will forever remain a mystery since they don't remember that either. No one got to sleep with the choir girl, AND she missed her bus in the morning!<br><br>Day 3 was light, explored the Parliament, Film history Museum, the Nikola Tesla Museum (he invented the radio), watched Venus rape Safina 6-1, 6-0 in the Wimbledon semis while sipping beer at a roadside cafe. By the ...

... later we had to deal wýth the Serbýan border offýcýals. A border guard came on the bus and checked everyone's ID. When I gave hým my passport, he flýpped through all of the pages and looked at me wýth one eyebrow raýsed. I wasnt sure ýf he was ýmpressed wýth the places I went to or ýf he was suspýcýous. It was the latter as he left the bus wýth my passport. The bus waýted for about 5 mýnutes whýle the guard checked my 'credentýals'. Agaýn, I receýved my ...

... No, Mr. Serbian Cab Driver, we are not interested in the ohsowonderful Beograd airport. We are however very much interested in the downtown Avis rental car office. Ok, fine. I take you. So we get there and it is no longer Avis, but something else. Meanwhile, our cabdriver friend has joined us in the office and is speaking Serbian to the rental car guy. Nice. We ...

... void that the war left behind. Somehow that Balkan hospitality I was looking for was lacking. Or maybe my expectations were too high after coming from Turkey, the hospitality centre of the universe! In any case, nice place to visit for a day but not in a hurry to go back, unless I had a local guide, which I;m sure like everywhere else would make all the difference. Oh, yeah, and the Czechs won't like this. In Belgrade you can order a beer in a LITER mug!

... also checked out the main pedestrian streets and had a dinner of serbian goulash and Serbian baklava. Now, we dont know if it was the dinner or the water, but we both started vomiting around midnight and didnt leave the hotel room at all the next day. We decided to spend one more night in Serbia to make up for our day of rest and recovery and checked out some beautiful ...

... to practise for our last minute presentation an hour later. We then went to the theater where we had to sing in front of a packed house. It was something like a Opera theater. After we sang, we handed out shoe boxes to all these little kids. They loved them so much. Just a whole box of presents for themselves. After we did that distribution we had a couple hours to ourselves. So ...