Just a long bus ride.

The hostel has free breakfast, good cable, and a washing machine. Can’t ask for more

Nice folks here, they seem genuinely friendly😄

Have a great day!

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

I forgot to do this last night, so hopefully I can remember everything.

Yesterday was a Monday,  so no museums. I went on a free walking tour that was pretty good. We spent a lot of time in the fortress and the park that it’s in. Very shady, lots of water fountains. Nice.

In the afternoon I went back to the park and walked around a lot more. I also found two podcasts about Belgrade and listened to those too. 

Dinner was grocery shopping food. I’m actually kinda tired of restaurant food at this point lol.

Today, a visit to the Tesla museum. It’s small but the real reason people go is for the demonstrations. A guide operates a Tesla cool and runs some equipment and such. It was neat. That guy was so far ahead of his time it’s ridiculous. I didn’t know until today he was a vegetarian!

I tried to go on a free tour of communist Belgrade but I got to chatting to a bored tour guide who loved art and I paid to go with her instead. It was great, just the two of us talking about hipsters, urban development, and art.

Also I did some laundry and made a healthy dinner.

Tomorrow, a few art galleries and a cathedral.

Night!

It was quite warm in Belgrade when I arrived. Summer may be here at last.

My hostel is close to the main shopping area and several attractions, so that’s convenient.

I was a little worried when I checked in. The gal was handing out welcome shots like alcohol was going out of style. At 3 tomorrow morning,  we’ll see what happens.

Have a good day!