Best Western Sumadija Belgrade

... Also checked out the Military Museum which seemed to have a distinct gap around 1991-1995.<br>Walking back through the market stalls between the Citadel and the city I bought an awesome wool beanie and a 500 billion Dinar note!! These notes were issued for 1 week during the hyperinflation period in December 1993 and are now worthless - apart from looking cool.<br><br>Seems lots of museums in Belgrade are closed at the moment for renovations or ...

... had some free time in town and I checked out the fortress and a couple other bits and pieces. Then we drove onto the hotel, where we drove past a couple of old bombed buildings that have been sitting there in semi-ruins for a very long time. We then arrived at the hotel, had dinner and some drinks in the room with a fair few of us. From there we headed out to try and find one of two clubs in town. Discovering that they were both closed, we ended up at the local Irish ...

... appear to be cobbled. Which explains why the route doesn't use some obvius roads. And another reason why a shortcut might be unavailable.<br><br>Last night I finally changed the speedo to KM losing the odometer reading in the process. I also set the clock by my watch.<br>So I'm now doing about 18km/h which is a slow 10 mph but the heat is tough. Stopping makes it worse. Forecast said 33 degrees today.<br><br>I'm grinding across the plain but its clear that my original target is way ...

... The castle has a sign which says "you are in danger of your life if you go here". Which is pretty funny when you've seen their traffic. The green flashing man at crossings for instance doesn't mean no cars will come. But they will yield if women and children go first. Its lethal. Also the lights rarely go green for long enough to cross the whole road; tres amusement. Parking on the pavement is actually the norm so your constantly ...

... 100 dinars (93p), there really is no good reason not to visit if you're there. I decided it was roughly beer o'clock and went down to Kneza Mihailova, one of Belgrades few pedestrian only streets (which still makes it more pedestrian friendly than Budapest, which could only be less pedestrian friendly if they placed landmines on the pavements) and into a small café ran by a man who looked a lot like recently captured war criminal Radavan Karadzic ...

... mukavia paikkoja loytyy, mukaanlukien linnoitus ja sen ymparille tehty kaupungin suurin puisto, Kalamegdan. Lisaksi ortodoksikirkkoja loytyy useita ja muutama muu ihan kiva rakennus, mutta toisaalta kylla se kommarimenneisyyskin nakyy. Leveita katuja ja niiden reunoilla paljon harmaata. Itse en jaksanut lahtea niin kauas, mutta kaupungin uusi osa joen toisella puolella on ilmeisesti aika helvetin ruma. Nahtavyyksien suhteen kyseessa ei ole mikaan erikoinen kaupunki, mutta ainakin ...

... small museums a nice size: easy to consume and enjoy. If Tesla's life story had been subsumed in a grander Museum of Technology it would have been lost. I have left it to Claude to detail our hotel dilemmas here. At least it had a happy ending. We were getting tired though, and I managed to lose a shopping bag just by putting it down one more time than I picked it up (I think it was in the hostel that smelt like acrid fungus and my brain went fuzzy). The total value ...

... also smoked up a storm. Apparently smoking is very widely accepted everywhere in Serbia, including inside hostels. The dorm rooms were non-smoking areas, but basically it's like peeing in a swimming pool. You can't divide up the air! Our night was spent trying to cook dinner in a kitchen that only had one working plug (for the fridge) and was about the size of a closet. We were pretty bushed from our day and wanted to get to sleep. An hour after the posted noise curfew, we ...

... Bulgarian skills, and did the same with Serbian passport control - I was surprised and excited to see how close the 2 languages are to eachother. not close enough to string more than 2 words together, but lots of the vocabularly is similar. The next morning in Belgrade I hung around, got some breakfast, and picked up a map from the tourist office waiting for a reasonable hour to call my CS host. I met him around 10 AM and went back to his neighborhood. I ...