Didn’t do anything too exciting. A walking tour as usual, an art gallery, and the local ethnographic museum.

The walking tour focused on Belgrade in the 20th century. There’s so much politically going on here still today. The guide was good and tried not to give any opinions about the decisions Serbia has made. IMHO the government has been pretty aggressive over the years. I don’t know how anyone can look at mass graves and say “that’s not genocide”. Anyway.

After lunch and a nap, the ethnographic museum. It was pretty typical, lots of costumes and farming equipment. There was a display of carpets more interesting than you would have imagined.

The art gallery was the real highlight of my afternoon. There’s some good art here. Mostly modern, the Serbians tend to have great abstract paintings and lots of bronze figures.

It rained like crazy,  so hopefully everyone’s allergies will be calmer tomorrow. 

I’m on the bus to Bulgaria in the morning; I’ll be spending 9 days in Sofia. That’s a long time for that size of city, so lots of small day trips are in my future.

Mary

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