Continental Hotel Beograd Belgrade

... Ripley jealous (Matt Damon too, for that matter); thank god they don't share his murderous streak.

Generously going out of his way to pick me up from Belgrade bus station at 6:30am, Johnie instantly made up for the rough journey in. As his mother was in town for an appointment, I had to check into a hostel for one night, but given the early hour, we decided to first hang out at his ...

... br>The details are sketchy, still not fully reconstructed, but the 5 of us somehow got from our hostel to 5 miles away, across the river, and on a floating club called freestyle or something. That place was ridiculously fantastic. The rest of the night is a blur, with lots of vodka, dancing girls, mind numbingly beautiful people all around, a male bartender blowing kisses at me cos I tipped him 2 euros. All guys in our troupe were hitting on the Canadian choir girl, I was not. She was ...

... iz Michigan!?" (Is he really from Michigan!?) And when I told Bora my father had had a Yugoslavian "Yugo" car when I was young, this guy said of me: "Lzane". (He's lying.) I was mostly clueless to what they said to each other in Serbian. I asked Ana, who spoke the best English, what some of the songs were about. She usually replied: "unhappy love". The song I understood best had a chorus that said: "veseli se s ludmi" (have fun with people). The ...

Culture can be viewed as a phenomena relating to each country or a region individually. A lot of theories talk about culture being predetermined and we all have a certain elements of our own culture implemented on some unconscious level. But the thing is that different cultures are more and more being viewed through a needs of global society that tends to marginalize small or ...

Seven hours later the bus had broken down, a fair distance from Belgrade. I'd only been on one overnight bus before this, from Vilnius to the Estonian capital of Tallinn and I'd forgotten just how **** they are for overnight travel. You get very little sleep (I'd had about an hours worth..and that was interrupted twice- firstly when we crossed the makeshift border into Serbia, and secondly when an irritated Serb took exception to me falling to sleep on his ...

İ woke up at 6 am so I could catch an early bus to the maın bus termınal. When I boarded the bus, I asked the drıver to let me know where I had to get off as I was told that the stop was a 10 mınute walk from the bus termınal (thus not obvıous where I needed to get off). All went well as I found the bus termınal wıthout any ıssues. I stıll had 10 dollars worth of local money and I had to get rıd of ıt. I fırst bought some bread, fruıt and water and some small ...

... over the world. Still, I sympathize and wonder why the United States is so gung-ho about piecemealing the Balkans. How would the U.S. feel if the other countries of the world recognized Texas' independence??? Ok, bad example. What if South Carolina wanted to secede?? How would good old Honest Abe have reacted to that? Burned down Atlanta? There is no refuge in hypocrisy. But that said, the Serbian Government deserves no empathy here ...

... the way of offering me any alternative entertainment. In fact, I never saw any sign of alternative anything in Belgrade, which really surprised me. I was expecting it to be like a miniature Prague, less attractive visually but equally as exciting and avant-garde culturally. Half the people in the street in Prague look Bohemian (well, they are I guess...) whereas half the people on the street in Belgrade looked Mafioso. I must say, it wasn't very ...

... t do me a whole lot of favors on Wednesday - mostly cold and rainy off and on - but it was very pleasant yesterday and today, without being too warm. All in all, it's a very welcome change from the brutal heat I was dealing with a couple weeks ago. I haven't had a taster of Belgrade's infamous nightlife yet, other than a few glasses of wine and beer with my host. This is the factor that brings in most of the visitors, and the city has really built a name for itself as a party ...

... my van we had Sam teaching us some german christmas songs. It didn't work too well though, we couldn't sing them at all. Kat was sleeping most of the ride out there, since she stayed up most of the night doing homework(on the break!!!!) I'm not quite sure what time we got into Serbia, it was sometime after 1718. When we got into Belgrade we saw some of the bombed out buildings. The ...