Zira Hotel Belgrade

... register took the banana, studied it, and then shook it at me.

He then began shouting in Serbian, which sounds a lot like Russian. The lady behind me in line started shouting at Mouth and he waved the banana at her. She put her hand on my back and made hand motions that everything was ok. She yelled at Mouth and pointed to the fruit stand, and he got up, weighed my banana himself, and got mouthy again. I looked at this scale ...

... captain what he should do if his parachute didn't open, and the captain replied: " bring it back and I'll give you another one". I also discovered that between the '50s and ‘70s, both US and USSR supplied military aircrafts to Yugoslav’s air force (squadrons of US made Thunderbolts and USSR made MiG 21 are parked behind the museum). This shows how skillful a diplomat the past dictator of the country, Tito, was.

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... hole of a city did i end up in. When i arrived i was so tired i almost went straight to a hostel and sleep until tonight... but i am glad i didnt. 4 double espressos later i was buzzing up and down left and right... I actually found a fort today, it was amazing i got to walk around it- for free and check out the radest look out over looking the huge city of beograd... Belgrade. I think this city has surprised me alot, the people the food, the ...

... and saw, to my infinite delight, that someone had scrawled "Don't buy the Sun! Hillsborough 89!"- obviously scribbled by a Liverpudlian (they hate the Sun due to the fact it claimed they stole from the dead during the Hillsborough disaster). I wasn't sure buying "the Sun" was a real option where I was anyway (I can't see it selling very well in Belgrade). I went back into the bar and ordered a third beer before turning round to watch the news blaring ...

... Alberto and the rest of the Italian boys say. Go to Tivos right by the square. A delicious slice was only 70 dinar (50 dinar to a buck.). Two would make a meal and you could chase it with a .5L can of cold beer from a stand around the corner for 85 dinar. There's burek, meat or cheese filled pastries that make a meal in themselves and don't cost much more than a buck. You can get pljeskavica, which are colossal hamburgers, Romanian style ...

... This time she shot me a wry smile that said "you'll be lucky if your carriage has wheels" before announcing in an embarrassed tone that th**e was no first class. While she processed my ticket, I enquired as to wheth** th**e was a dining car on the train, though by this stage I could have guessed the answ**. H** wry smile had progressed to a barely contained s****** in response to the food question, and I felt it did not bode well for ...

... but Claude was struggling to name the city she was in on our arrival after securing about 9 minutes sleep just as we pulled into our final destination. So it was that I happily trekked around town to find us a place to stay. Choices in Belgrade are a little motley, so we settled on a place that seemed as good as any as it seemed to have a manager with a good sense of humour. We were also swung by the inclusion of breakfast, showing just how tired we ...

... great guys.. one serbian and one english.. they told us the history of serbia.. very intersting.. We moved to Plastik and I would 100% not recommend this club... very very dodgy place and has ****** music.. Today we got up packed and are now waiting for the train to Thesseloniki at 9pm tonight.. sweet... bring on the couchette..

... tyre and continued. Only 4km from the centre I had to do the same again. This time the valve snapped off in the pump. All day I'd been considering the alternative transport to Istanbul. I am tiring of this lifestyle. I love the people I've met and places I've seen but my **** is sore and the days are getting shorter and colder. Above all I knew I could not make it to Egypt for Christmas by bike alone and was weighing up alternatives in my head. My weakened state due to ...

After the spendour we had just experienced in Italy and Western Europe, I was not really prepared for the bleakness that was northern Yugoslavia (now, Serbia). Belgrade was the epitome of the communist/socialist-type of building and city design: utilitarian, lifeless and ugly. My impression was also influenced by the fact that I saw very few people in the streets here, and that ...