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Maniacal Drive Through Belgrade’s Rush Hour

March 12, 2010
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From Bezanijska Kosa to city center it usually takes around 20 minutes, if you’re lucky with the traffic. This guy, however, managed to get there in under 8 minutes during one of many Belgrade’s rush hours:

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Avala Tower (Avalski Toranj) ready for business

November 2, 2009

The Avala TV Tower (Serbian: Avalski Toranj), located on top of Avala mountain near Belgrade has always represented different things to different people. To some, it’s just a TV tower, a giant antenna which helps even the most remote villages in Serbia get their daily fix of Big Brother. To others, it’s an architectural masterpiece. [...]

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Terazije street time-lapse

October 26, 2009

Nice video made of pictures taken from web cam at Beograd.com over Terazije street in Belgrade:

video by Jazzva.
Another great link via @jazzva for you guys to check – 24 one-minute films depicting 24 hours of life in Belgrade. It’s a must-see.

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Invisible Terazije Monument

August 18, 2009

After B92 ran a story on it, I’ve come to conclusion that this has got to be one of the least visible monuments in the world, which is even more accented by the fact that it’s not exactly small, and that it’s located in a busy street. It’s as if it’s fitted into a street [...]

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Three new murals in Belgrade by Blu, M-City and Valerio Berruti

August 15, 2009

Belgrade just got three new murals by famous artist from this field. Making of murals was made under the patronage of BELEF, Belgrade music summer festival.
First, an abstract city portrait by M-City in Durmitorska street 16:

photo by Vandalog. See more detailed photo’s on M-City’s own website.
Than another one by Blu [artist most famous [...]

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Crossroad Nap

August 14, 2009

After a long drinking night in town you realize that: your wife won’t let you sleep when you get gome, your kids are still awake playing video games in the room next door, the neighbor’s dog is barking all night… and you’re so drunk that you can’t tell a car seat from a normal bed, [...]

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Rainy days

July 4, 2009

It doesn’t rain that very often in Belgrade, but once it does, be careful when you try to cross the street. See what happens to this poor girl:

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More Belgrade Tips

January 23, 2009

Here we go again, this time we continue with some even more offbeat things to do in Belgrade than the first time, before we reach the next couple of installments with final sets of tips for tourists, expatriots, foreigners, but also for the locals in Belgrade.
Ice skating is big in Belgrade when the cold days [...]

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Hundred things to do in Belgrade, Serbia: Tourist tips and travel guide for visitors, expats and residents

January 8, 2009

The first in a series of posts giving tips on a hundred things to do in Belgrade. Join the trip around town and give your own suggestions in the comments.

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The curious case of Belgrade/Zagreb snake statue

January 8, 2009

The “Struggle” sculpture/fountain in Kalemegdan (“Borba” in Serbian) has an interesting history behind its creation.
Simeon Roksandic, the sculptor, made one statue for the great Balkan exhibition in London, in 1907. During the transport to or from London, Roskandic received the news that the ship who was carrying the sculpture is missing and that his [...]

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New Year’s Eve in Belgrade – 2009

December 27, 2008

So you are in Belgrade and want to party for the New Year’s eve, eh? And there’s only three days left… don’t worry, Belgrade citizens love to party, so you’ll have a chance of attending the New Year’s eve re-run if you miss the real thing. Some clubs even offer re-run of the re-run if [...]

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A Critical Review of Serbia

December 2, 2008

Finally an article about Belgrade not examining it’s “vibrant nightlife”, “posh cafes” and “beautiful women”.
Irish Tribune brings a review of Belgrade that tries to examine the political and social situation – which is admittedly filled with negative trends and nationalistic tensions.
Unfortunately it seems as if the journalist was a bit too young, naive [...]

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Hens and Stags – Where Are They?

November 8, 2008

Since Belgrade is pretty cheap and generally a party city, where are all those stags and hens roaming the Belgrade streets and passing out drunk on them?

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Urban avengers in the streets of Belgrade

October 10, 2008

Parking is a big problem in Belgrade. In the longest Belgrade street (some say the longest street in Balkans), 8 km long Bulevar Revolucije (aka Bulevar Kralja Aleksandra) this problem gave birth to an unusual habit – a driver just stops in the middle right lane, turns all four blinkers on and goes out to [...]

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Beauty will save the world

June 12, 2008

Jonathan mentioned it at the end of his post here but it was only later I found out what really happened with the suicider-wannabe. Much to his luck, a model Katarina Vuckovic accidentaly left her bus at a wrong station so she had to walk back to the right one. At her way back on [...]

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New Belgrade (Novi Beograd) turns 60

April 10, 2008

Today, many regard New Belgrade as a giant sleeping dorm – with over half a million people living there, it is the biggest municipality in Serbia. In comparison to all these people living here, it has always suffered with cultural offer – not enough cinemas, theaters, restaurants, Belgrade cafes, not enough anything – save buildings.

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Belgrade Phantom trailer

March 4, 2008

Belgrade Phantom, (sr: Beogradski fantom), the movie we talked about long time ago on the Belgrade blog, is finaly finished, and if I am to judge a book by it’s covers, that is – a movie by it’s trailer, I’d say we have ourselves a real winner:

If you want to know about the event that [...]

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Facebook deletes Belgrade and other Serbian cities?

February 26, 2008

Homeless or a Case of Bedless, photo by Moriza.
Ummm… Something strange is going on. Suddenly I can’t find my hometown (Belgrade) on the Facebook list. And I’m pretty sure I’ve had it couple of days ago. Is it some kind of Facebook protest for burning of the American embassy in Belgrade? If that’s the case, [...]

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Don’t blame the kids

February 22, 2008

Belgrade was pretty much devastated tonight. Well organized groups of hooligans trashed at least ten locations almost simultaniously – American and Croatian embassy were demolished the most, Turkish embassy stoned, two MacDonald’s restaurants trashed completely again, couple of ambulance cars got smashed for some reaseon, together with several other cars, several shops in Terazije smashed [...]

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Minor rioting in front of the US ambassy (updated)

February 17, 2008

This is an article about an earlier protest. To read about the new protest, rioting and latest developements, click here
update
There are still groups of vandals throughout the city, but it seems that the police finaly decided to put an end to this, after abour 30 of them got injured. Here’s the aftermath:
Slovenian embassy, American embassy, [...]

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