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I've been in Belgrade for just over two weeks now. This is the first time in 30 years that I'm staying here for a longer time. In the past, I would stay for a week or two, but never longer than that. I had a job to go back to and had to shape visits around my holidays. I love that I can spend more time here and that I can reconnect with the city. After all, I'm from Belgrade. It's my city, despite the fact ...
A place in Belgrade that I've never visited before is the Vuk and Dositej Museum. Normally, it's a place where they take you as a kid with school, to learn about two most influential Serbs that shaped the language and culture of the nation, after centuries under the Ottoman rule. But, for some reason, I never went there.
In all honesty, I didn't think much of this museum because it's in a relatively ...
Belgrade Fortress is the most important historic site in Belgrade. Its position, overlooking the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers, makes it a very unique place because not many other cities have two big rivers. Views from the fortress are spectacular.
SHORT HISTORY OF BELGRADE FORTRESS
The city-fortress was first established in the 3rd century BC. ...
SHORT HISTORY OF BELGRADE FORTRESS
The city-fortress was first established in the 3rd century BC. ...
Princess Ljubica's Residence is one of the most important historic buildings in Belgrade. Built in 1830, it certainly had all characteristics of the Serbian-Balkan style houses. It is also among the most preserved examples of the civil architecture from the first half of the 19th century Belgrade. It was a luxurious court of the Serbian ruling Obrenović dynasty.
After the expulsion of the Obrenović ...
I am back in Belgrade. I mentioned in my previous post that I was planning to go there. The main reason why I decided to leave London for a period of time is because I think that the situation in the UK is much worse than in Serbia. I also think that the situation in the UK will not improve any time soon. Profound mistakes made by an incompetent UK government at the start of the epidemic are not easy to ...
There is a place in Belgrade that I wanted to visit for a long time. Remarkably, I've never been there. Not even when I lived in Belgrade, before I moved to London. If you ask me why, I wouldn't know what to say. Perhaps, I thought of it as a place that was right there and easy to visit. Somehow, I never actually managed to do it until now. The place that I am talking about is the Nikola Tesla museum in ...
I've written many stellar articles about Belgrade. And rightly so. It's a dynamic and interesting city that's rapidly changing. It's also a refreshingly rare non-globalised European city, especially if you compare it with most Western European capital cities where you see the same shops and restaurant chains over and over again. In that respect, Belgrade is still rather authentic. When you walk around the ...
I'm in Belgrade at the moment. In my previous post, I wrote about my travel plans and I mentioned that I was going to spend two weeks in the Serbian capital city. I've already written about Belgrade and I've also said that I'd only write about many changes that are currently happening there. The city authorities have undertaken an immense task to restore and improve the city, especially after many decades ...
April was a strange month. That was one of the reasons why I posted only one article at the end of April. It was also a month in which I asked myself: Where next? But, let me explain what happened.
As I wrote in my previous post, the UK had to come out of the EU at the end of March. However, no exit deal had been agreed between the UK and the EU. So, the UK government asked for extension until the 12th ...
I should've written and posted this article at the end of March 2019. The UK should've come out of the EU on the 29th March 2019. But, that didn't happen. Then, the exit day was moved to the 12th April, but again it didn't happen. The new exit day is the 31st October 2019. I don’t want to repeat the events that happened over the past four or so months. It was so ridiculous that I'm almost ashamed to even ...
