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Mighty Nora from B92 blog posts a great project - Belgrade pictures in mirror surfaces all over the city. Entitled "Backwards visual travelogue", it's a really great idea and effort, also check it out here it B92 loads too slow. (comment on Belgrade in reverse)
Daniella Vechi of the BounceMag explores the street basketball courts of the world. Here's the lowdown on Belgrade: "right now at Kalemegdan the local ballers play hard. Some rash tourists try to take a stab at the court, but the level is very high and some of them are punctually posterized." "The older [players] are nasty, dangerous elbows and intrinsic toughness are on their side, together with great fundamentals and superior b-ball IQ. The youngers who face them try to do a sort of flying circus on the court, but no way, the olds win, again and again and again. (comment on Street Basketball on Belgrade courts)
Nice little Belgrade snow globe - great as a souvenir or New Year present - first of its kind made especially for Belgrade. via Miss Cybernaut (comment on Winter Belgrade souvernir suggestion)
The cheap tickets for the Exit Fest 09 are already sold out. Here are the first rumors for the 2009 lineup, if you hear something else let me know: Daft Punk, Klaxons, Radiohead, Justice, Thievery Corporation, Moby, The Ting Tings, MGMT, Hot Chip, The Killers. Anything sounds good to you? (comment on Exit Fest 2009 rumors)
Ana writes about the traditional Open Heart Street day in Belgrade and posts some photos from the event. (comment on Open Heart Street, Belgrade)
Start with the Republic square in Belgrade and work your way around the site. A phenomenal 360 degree panoramas of many world cities created by Aleksandar Janicijevic. (comment on Awesome interactive city squares site)
Ieishah receives a political advice from her Serbian friend. (comment on Political experience)
Serbian National security operatives have this to say about Ratko Mladic in their latest leaked report:
- "a ticking bomb that could easily take innocent persons from his surroundings to death with him"
- "moving silently in woolen socks when inside apartments,
not allowing loud conversation, and maintaining a high level of hygiene
due to fear of illness and hospitalization".
- "he insisted for a long time that members of his family visit him, watched television and even played chess on a regular basis"
And I thought I was good in making weird articles! With this description they have narrowed it down to almost every grumpy retired granpa in the world.
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The infamous "Woolen Socks" tactic)
One new blog to recommend: Belgrade Dispatch by Vanja Petrovic. Only three articles so far, all three excellent. Hope there will be more in the future. (comment on Belgrade Dispatch)
Loads of interesting photos from all over the Balkans and the world on Tim Judah's flickr profile. (comment on Tim Judah on flickr)
Novi Sad, the capital of Vojvodina
Novi Sad is the second important town in Serbia and one of the nicest ones, sited on the river Danube. Have a walk through the car free old town – just renovated in view of the Basketball championship in 2005 – with its gothic catholic cathedral. While life in Belgrade is more hectic and pulsing, in Novi Sad you may relax in the cleaned historic streets; sit down in one of the many coffee shops; visit the city park (a plaque at the entry informs you in Serbo-Croatian that it’s a “second category” park; however it’s a little bit better than that…) with the pond. You will recognise easily the very different style of architecture than in Belgrade, as Novi Sad until WWI was part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. After having visited Belgrade, you will feel like if you missed the street, left Serbia and unexpectedly arrived in a German or Austrian country town. And if you stay overnight, you will find all kinds of clubs for going out.
On the south side of the Danube, next to the town centre, visit the
“Petrovaradin” fortress but don’t get cheated at the fortress museum –
avoid paying an astronomic price for the entry, it’s not worth it…
In the summer, half the town takes sunbaths on the sandy beach next to
the newly rebuilt motorway bridge, and swims in the Danube, even if the
water is incredibly dirty. But there are showers…
In the early days of July, the Petrovaradin hosts the magnificent and
gigantic Rock festival “EXIT” that attracts visitors from all around
the Balkans to listen to domestic and foreign music stars and many
different styles of music.
Trains from Belgrade (every 2 hours) or busses (twice an hour) reach Novi Sad in about 1 ½ hours. The daily train and the night train to Budapest-Vienna both stop in Novi Sad.
photo by Sroown
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