tourism

Belgrade summer season clubbing – a practical guide

August 27, 2010

As someone who spends a lot of time in Belgrade’s “famous” nightlife I feel most online guides are not useful in making a decision on where to spend your night, especially if you have a limited amount of time in this city. What is available also changes quite a bit from season to season and [...]

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Pobednik monument is happy to see you

August 11, 2010

If you are a tourist, and in Belgrade for the first time, it is to be expected that you will be taken to the Kalemegdan park. And, while in the Kalemegdan park, it is to be expected that your guide will take you to see the confluence of Dunav and Sava rivers, where one of the most recognizable Belgrade monuments is located—The Victor statue. Today you will discover one secret feature of the monument, which I like to think it was a sort of an Easter egg planted there by the sculptor. Thanks to Eniac who showed me the Easter egg, you will now also be amazed by the discovery.

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Guca 2010 – The Survival Guide

August 4, 2010

50th Guca trumpet/brass music festival starts on 13th and ends on 22nd of August 2010. This short guide will teach you all the things you need to know in order to survive the festival and stay mentally and physically fit afterwards, should you decide to attend. Take ear plugs with you. One day of extreme [...]

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Expedition 206 in Belgrade

July 1, 2010

Tonight I will have the opportunity to meet and greet the members of the Expedition 206, comprised of three young people traveling all around the world and collecting memorable impressions from the countries they visited. You can follow my twitter account for updates from our night out in Belgrade. Also follow hashtag #exp206 to see [...]

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Debunking some visa-free travel myths

November 30, 2009
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I’ve been writing about the visa-free travel for some time now, but today it’s official – since December 19th there will be no more visa requirement for Serbian, Montenegrin and Macedonian citizens if they want to travel to the Schengen territory. There are several popular myths circling around in the comments regarding this news, as [...]

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Belgrade hostels map

November 30, 2009
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Belgrade hostels map: Since Google decided to finally chart Belgrade streets on their maps, I thought it may be a nice opportunity to finally make maps of various useful things in Belgrade. We’ll start with Belgrade hostels, always useful for a low budget traveler. It is interesting to note that there are around fifty hostels [...]

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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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Another tourist ad for Serbia…

October 27, 2009

...technically speaking, of course. [Ad by Saatchi & Saatchi] What do you think? Personally I think it’s well done [also technically speaking] but I don’t get the point. Edit: User Ivic of Parapsihopatologija forums has come up with a response to this Saatchi ad: Update 2: Making of – explanation, story behind the ad etc.

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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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Vegetarian in Belgrade? No problem

July 18, 2009

Can a vegetarian survive in Belgrade, Serbia? According to this blog post it seems that it is possible. Another blogger has kindly suggested several great options for vegetarians and their friends, together with veg restaurants addresses: Slasta, (Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 17), Joy of Heart (Svetogorska 18), Fenix (Palmoticeva 5) and the old veg place by [...]

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No more Schengen visas from 2010…

June 16, 2009

... if we don’t fuck something up in the meantime, of course. photo by lilit The decision of the European Commision to allow Serbs to travel as tourists in European/Schengen area without visas seems more and more likely after yesterdays meeting, where, beside Serbian citizens, also Macedonians and Montenegrins are confirmed to be on the [...]

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JAT to change name to “Air Serbia” or “Serbian Airlines” – suggest a better one

May 26, 2009

B92 reports about JAT’s decision to change their name from JAT Airways to “Air Serbia” or “Serbian Airlines”. Suggest a better name (if you can think of one) in the comments below. photo by caribb As much as it seems logical to do so from one side, it is kind of weird for them to [...]

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Can you market a country like a product?

February 17, 2009

Serbian Ministry of tourism recently said that there will be only 135 thousand euros spent for re-branding of Serbia this year. This is admittedly not a lot of money considering some countries spend that much for the same purpose in a day. But, on the other hand, it is way too much money if you [...]

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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 [...]

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Belgrade, Serbia: 100 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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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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The Party City

October 30, 2007

Sunday Times brings us a report on six world party cities of choice: Milan, New York, Berlin, Amsterdam, Paris and – Belgrade. Do you see an intruder on this list? I see five of them: Milan is the fashion city, Amsterdam is the weed city, Paris is the love city, Berlin is the wall city, [...]

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Michael Palin in Belgrade

October 28, 2007

Mr Palin used his rather short stay in Belgrade to discuss politics with a local genius and a couple of beautiful girls – in a way, it is quite what you’d expect from a visit to Belgrade, come to think of it. More info about Michael Palin’s trip to this part of Europe: New Europe, [...]

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