Hotel Hyatt Belgrade

We arrived in to Belgrade about 4 hours late which was around midnight. He set off from the station and eventually got taken in by a little Dutch fellow called Dennis who took us back to the Mr Walker Hostel. Awesome place. Cheap and really friendly! We went pretty much straight to bed having had a looooooooooooooooooooooong train journey.

We were up and ...

... invade them for a WMD. All in all, a great experience, I finally got to stand behind one of those heavy machine guns... Oh the power.

I rounded off the trip with the customary visit to all important landmarks in and around the fortress, including important gates, towers, the victory monument (which is basically a naked man statue standing on top of a tall tall tall pillar. Who am I to judge. I took a picture of his tushy.

I get back to the hostel cos it started raining, the ...

... Some people were playing guitar and singing. The girls of this group - compared to other Serbian women, who wore high heels and tight clothes brightly displaying their best parts - comfortably wore looser sweatshirts. One energetic girl stood while the others sat, swaying back and forth as she sang, and smoking lots of cigarettes. They played a catchy, upbeat song with the rhythm of a song from a Russian movie, but with Serbian lyrics, and when I told ...

... but that doesn't much work for me any more. Alcohol is poison; handle with caution. I see no bragging rights involved in being able to 'handle your liquor.' If that's the goal, then what's the point? Me, I got travel plans, on to Kosovo, soon to be the newest country in the world, all the while thinking about Ethiopia, so bored I am with the cold weather I've had the last month. That Ethiopian visa is burning a hole in my passport. Stay tuned.

... took forever. The machıne was so slow. I started at 9 am and by the tıme everythıng was washed and drıed ıt was 230 am. It was the longest laundry cycle ever. It remınded me of the ****** washer and dryer I had when I was workıng ın Newcastle. Whıle I was updatıng my blog, an older gentleman came over to talk to me. He looked out of place ın the hostel just because he looked very sophıstıcated. He was Turkısh and overheard ...

... from DC. I will admit, I don't know all the facts and what led up to this, but I will say I am on the side of Kosovo and our support of their independence as a state. Nuf said. Ready to get out of this country. (C) You're just ****** about the de LUX accommodations last night. They can't help it that there were holes in the sheets, or water leaking out of the sewer onto the bathroom floor. And can you fault them for the smell? Come ...

... the casino across from the train station. Since it was the last night of my trip, and the mafia casino hostel diddn't seem that appealing, I decided to splurge and get a room in the grand old Hotel Royal. I walked up the street and around the corner, where I was successfully able to hail a cab. The Hotel Royal must have seemed just that- round about 1958 in the middle of the Communist era. It was big, had a bar, covered outdoor bar, snack bar AND ...

... t get me anywhere, so I had to scramble for a back-up plan. For some stupid reason, I never thought to ask for her phone number, so I couldn't exactly ring her up and say "uh, so where are you?" Conveniently though, I happened upon a card for a nearby hostel, complete with map and directions. Adding to the frustration, it started to rain as I slogged it down the road to the place, but the guy running the hostel turned out to be very helpful and friendly. Despite my not being a ...

December 18th Ok lets see if I can finish this one. Sorry I did't get around to doing this sooner, I've been really busy and sick for the past lttle while. We drove through 3 different countries to get to Serbia. We left Friedrichshafen between 545 and 6 in the morning on Monday the 18th. It took us probably around 15 hours to drive there. At about 1437 we past the boarder into ...

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