Best Western Hotel M Belgrade

... taxis, roundabouts... at one point we went up the curve... But he got me here in record time and all for 6 Euros!! :D


After a good nights sleep I managed to seperate myself from my bed and wandered around the city and my second impressions confirm my thoughts from last night - there is definitely a different feel about the city. I walked to the old fortress/castle remains that look out over where the ...

... have only started playing in the last couple of years, so expectedly I was much better. Hell yeah. There was also Nasir from Pakistan, and for the practice session, we were giving tips, and advice. I wanted to say "well just try hit it out the park" but that would be wrong. These guys were genuinely interested in learning and playing the game, and it just made me happy. Cricket happened at the Belgrade Fortress grounds, the pitch was a road, and they had a full kit ...

... and white shirts beneath forest-dark pants and boots and unbuttoned vests, which made them look like wood-cabin dwellers or tree-axers. Girls wore rectangular, navy aprons that made them look like dominoes; and yellow head scarves with long frills that resembled blond braids. Nearly all of the dances were similar to the first. Sometimes, the girls ands guys sang and serenaded as they quickly danced, which was moving. But, in one very different dance ...

... the last two letters were a bit similar to the address but there are no hostel signs. However its number 3 so I might as well check. Just above the door to number three is a youth hostel sign. Astonished just does not do justice to how I felt; it was so improbable. it now turns out that this hostel is basically a four bedrooms in someones basement with the corridor as the social area, a small kitchen and two bathrooms. Its not bad but might be pricy if I've ...

... restaurant next door. A lively affair with a truly awful 5 piece brass band. It sounded like Serbian heavy metal. The beer and food were good value but I can't recommend Macedonian wine I'm afraid. I slept well on the bus, apart from Eileen snoring like a pig. I was told the following morning that we had actually formed a duet. I can't believe that. In the morning I set off on foot to track down a cash machine. I asked a chap for ...

... way, especially one lady who kept spraying me with spittle when she talked! and a guy who said he was a dentist and who reminded me of the dentist in little Shop of Horrors (the crazy one who ends up getting fed to a man eating plant). Just like being back in London really... A wander through some of the very old ruins. Apparently this city gets razed every 50 years or so.... Great hospitality ...

... were staying had arranged for us to be picked up by a private driver for less than the cost of a taxi. What a godsend that was, as we were all exhausted. On the way in the driver showed us the Holiday Inn that was famous during the Balkans war, we drove down Sniper Alley, and he showed us the Library/City Hall, a glamorous Austro-Hungarian era building that was now a burnt out shell. At Halvat we received a warm welcome and were shown to our cosy room where we crashed into our beds.

... the Serbian boarder was not that much of a hassle. Serbia was the only country that we didn't have insurance for so we expected to buy 2 days worth at the boarder. We went into buy insurance and were promptly told that we must buy 1 months worth, as there is no daily coverage. Being a Sunday, of course, there was only one option and you really don't want to argue with a Serb at the boarder, especially when they were keeping Dan's passport until we could provide ...

... about being American (foreign in general) here. While you at times run into the anti-American, anti-NATO sentiments, mostly it is interest and intrigue. Exotic in our willingness to venture into the wilds of the club-culture or our willingness to eat one of a thousand kinds of spicy meat--I have experienced a hospitality absent in the other great cities of Europe, a welcome that draws you in and refuses to ...

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