Hotel Beograd Belgrade

A few pictures from some time out when out on a work trip in Belgrade. We just had an afternoon to wander and so went up to the cathedral and the old castle and gardens complex. It seriously could have been the hottest place I've ever been in the world ...

Så er vi tilbake på Hotel Excelsior. Denne gangen har vi fått et litt mindre rom og uten utsikt. Men standarden er god og det er godt å være tilbake. Frokosten er også veldig god, vi får vanlig kaffe for første gang på lenge. Først kl. 10.30 ...

... pensumliste. Småregnet hadde sluttet og lyset ble gradvis skarpere. Etterhvert så vi litt blå himmel også. Vi tittet innom Beograd-katedralen også. Ikke så stor men rikt utsmykket med gull og stas, og ikoner av lokale helgener. Rett ved siden av ...

... get it. But first we need to realize that smoking can kill. Bear with me. I took the bus from Sofia to Beograd (or what we call Belgrade), which took seven hours to go a measly 220 miles because the border crossing took 1.5 hours and some of the ...

Belgrade, or Beograd is the proper way to say it, was an interesting place. I enjoyed it much more than Sofia. (felt like ther eas more to see) we went out for a city tour before heading to the hotel and right when we got there, it started to pour ...

... det en taxi med passasjerer til hotellet. Vi hopper inn i denne og kommer oss greit til flyplassen. Det går ikke fort på Aerodrom Beograd men vi får etterhvert sjekket inn. På kafeen koster vi på oss to kaffe og to små kakestykker, og sitter igjen ...

Belgrade (Beograd) is the capital and largest city of Serbia. The city lies at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, where the Pannonian Plain meets the Balkans. It has an urban population of 1.2 million, while the metropolitan area has more than ...

... it was easier to find a job and have social security  and people lived in peace all together. I visited his grave in Belgrade that is not considered a highlight for tourists, any indication, any visitors except two men of my age, any honour guards ...

... tid mellom hver stasjon. De byene vi stopper i er store, men vi har aldri hørt navnene før. Kl. 23.30 ruller vi svært sakte inn på stasjonen i Beograd. Da er toget en time og tre kvarter forsinket. Et kvarter senere sjekker vi inn på Hotel ...

... of the Serbian Orthodox Church talked to me in Serbian and let me in for free.  Just because.  Plug: VISIT BELGRADE. Unfortunately, my adventures there lasted only a day.  Fortunately, I made it to Nikola Tesla International Airport on time ...

... før det begynte å bli vanskelig å vite hvor man var, og etterhvert kom det bort i skyene. Det var mørkt da vi landet i Beograd litt før kl. 21. Om flyturen var behagelig så var tollen i Serbia det motsatte. Her gikk det langsomt. Det verste er når ...

"Really, it's useless to fight America." -Serb on train from Budapest Greetings from Beograd, Serbia-a.k.a. Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia where one of the biggest jokes around is "sorry, we didn't know it was invisible" referring to the American ...

Well, Here we go again! ..I wont say much as i havn't had the best day. Here we are in Belgrade (actually Beograd) and we arrive straight out of the train station to attempt to get something to eat as we are so worn out. The food is very different ...

... the office and is speaking Serbian to the rental car guy. Nice. We realize there is a real Avis office at the swanky Hyatt Hotel Belgrade - let's go there. Then we load up and Mr. Cabbie Friend still wants to take us to the airport. After ...

... , epsilon, L and O are the same, and um, gamma, and I can't remember if C becomes S or S becomes C..." We got to Belgrade at 5:10pm (the train station name looked like this: Београд [Beograd, since it's not only ...

... shanty town, over the Danube, past some monolythic socialist style buildings, past yards of Duran Duran posters {they play Belgrade October 17} and through kilometers of prarie fields of recently harvested crops. The elm and poplar trees reminded me ever ...

... me on a few drinking tips here. We picked up a few six packs and smuggled them into the hotel. Now this may seem funny, but this night in Beograd, Serbia we got on the beers while watching Titanic and then the Animal Planet! hahaha! - Nothing else was ...

... thankful we still have the tent. Finally a train comes chugging around the corner. We are yelling at whoever will listen, “Belgrade? Beograd?” Everyone on the tracks is nodding and pointing and telling us to get on. We are on the right train, ...