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Leaving It All Behind: To Travel Abroad For A Year

Leaving It All Behind: To Travel Abroad For A Year

By Karl Haudbourg • on July 2, 2009

An American family of four is traveling across Europe for a year. The family’s first stop after leaving the United States is Serbia. “Belgrade is a lively city, we are in Sokobanja now, and we are LOVING Serbia.” Earlier this year, Bob and Brenna Redpath of Los Angeles decided to leave it all behind. “It’s not about taking a vacation,

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An American In Serbia: Great weekend In Belgrade

An American In Serbia: Great weekend In Belgrade

By Karl Haudbourg • on July 1, 2009

Anna, an American girl, spent last weekend in Belgrade. “Great weekend. Great people. Great times. If you ever in your life have the opportunity

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A Great Day In Belgrade: Manticora Metal Band

A Great Day In Belgrade: Manticora Metal Band

By Karl Haudbourg • on June 26, 2009

Last month the progressive power metal band Manticora was in Belgrade. Formed in 1997 in Hvidovre, Denmark by Lars Larsen (vocals), Kristian Larsen (guitars)

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Number of tourists in Belgrade increased by 5%

Number of tourists in Belgrade increased by 5%

By Karl Haudbourg • on June 23, 2009

According to Jasna Dimitrijevic, the director of the Belgrade Tourist Organization, the number of foreign tourists visiting Belgrade, the capital of Serbia,

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Victoria’s Secret Model Adriana Lima Fell In Love With Serbia

Victoria’s Secret Model Adriana Lima Fell In Love With Serbia

By Karl Haudbourg • on June 8, 2009

Last week, Brazilian Victoria’s Secret model Adriana Lima and her husband, Serbian NBA star Marko Jaric, were invited to take part in Ognjen Amidzic’s

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French fashion retailer Sergent Major Continues Its Development In Serbia

French fashion retailer Sergent Major Continues Its Development In Serbia

By Karl Haudbourg • on May 26, 2009

A few weeks back, we wrote about how Delta City shopping mall and Usce shopping center in Belgrade, brought a striking array of international retail names

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Belgrade Is Not Prague

Belgrade Is Not Prague

By Karl Haudbourg • on June 29, 2009

A few years ago, Patrick Horton wrote a well-worth reading article for the San Francisco chronicle “Been there, done that. Got the Prague T-shirt,

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Serbian Girls And Men Are Beautiful And Tall

Serbian Girls And Men Are Beautiful And Tall

By Karl Haudbourg • on June 26, 2009

We recently wrote about Mark Hamilton, a journalist, finding Serbian women beautiful. However, many tourists are unaware that Serbian women and men are

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The Nightlife In Belgrade Is Startling

The Nightlife In Belgrade Is Startling

By David Berger • on June 24, 2009

Pulling into the train station from our grueling cross mountain trip, we arrived exhausted and sore in Belgrade. Beograd, Serbia is a beautiful mixture

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Shopping In Belgrade

Shopping In Belgrade

By Karl Haudbourg • on June 20, 2009

Earlier this year, we wrote about fashion brands in Belgrade. We pointed out that the Usce (oosh-chay) shopping center and the Delta City mall in Belgrade

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Maria Almeida - Go East - Go Serbia!

Maria Almeida - Go East - Go Serbia!

By Karl Haudbourg • on June 17, 2009

We recently wrote about Go East party in Brazil, pointing out that’s it’s really creasy to realise that people are dancing to music

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Serbian Women And Serbian Men Are Beautiful

Serbian Women And Serbian Men Are Beautiful

By Karl Haudbourg • on June 12, 2009

Mark Hamilton, a well-known journalist (now a journalism instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Richmond, British Columbia), put up the first

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Adriana Lima Going To A Go East party In Brazil?

Adriana Lima Going To A Go East party In Brazil?

By Karl Haudbourg • on June 4, 2009

As some of you may know, Brazilian Victoria’s Secret model

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Serbian-Style Potato Salad

Serbian-Style Potato Salad

By Darina Kopcok • on June 2, 2009

Over the years, my parents have hosted a lot of our relatives from their native Serbia: my mom’s cousins, her aunt, both of my father’s sisters as

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There Is Nothing Like A Serbian Wedding

There Is Nothing Like A Serbian Wedding

By Fabian Vendrig • on May 29, 2009

The last days I was here in Kraljevo, Serbia and it was like if I was in a movie from Emir Kusturica. People who know me well know that I like Emir Kusturica’s

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Thoughts About The National Anthem Of Serbia

Thoughts About The National Anthem Of Serbia

By Joe Magdeburger • on May 26, 2009

I am a big fan of national anthems and flags. My fondness for national anthems transcends my personal political bias. Israel, Germany and Taiwan all have

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Belgrade Kalemegdan

Belgrade Kalemegdan

By Madison Williams • on May 23, 2009

About two weeks ago I went to Belgrade by myself, and I went to the Kalemegdan castle. I took the streetcar and the bus. I didn’t wait too much, about

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Hiking and biking in Fruska Gora ’small’ mountains region of Serbia

Hiking and biking in Fruska Gora ’small’ mountains region of Serbia

By Karl Haudbourg • on May 10, 2009

Almost exactly two years ago, Mark Daniels, a British biker owning one of the best Serbian translation company, Odista,

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Australians In Serbia Felt As Though They Were Riding In A Travel Brochure

Last month, we wrote about a 25-year-old adventurer, Sam Williams, cycling across Serbia. The latest example is amazing. Two young Australian tourists, Don and Siggy Coopers, are visiting family in Sweden.

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Some Impressions Of Serbia

I like the food - I haven’t eaten a single bit of processed food other than a little salami at Bane’s house - and have enjoyed the fresh fruit: peaches, nectarines, watermelon and figs. I especially

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Bill Clinton Is In Belgrade - Serbia

It seems a bit odd to have the former president of the United States coming in Serbia and making a pit stop at a Frikom ice cream shop in Belgrade to share America’s favorite dessert. Is Bill Clinton

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Falling In Love With The Real Belgrade - The Capital Of Serbia

It’s not a secret that not many people think of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, as a potential place to visit. Most people associate Serbia with wars and ethnic conflict. Belgrade is perceived by

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Kalemegdan And Belgrade Fortress

About three weeks ago I went to Kalemegdan and Belgrade Fort. Here’s the second set of pictures from Kalemegdan, the most beautiful and largest Belgrade’s parks, dominated by the Belgrade Fortress.

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Is Serbia a safe place for an American to live and work?

Last year, the Belgrade Statistical office carried out a survey of foreigners in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia – there were around 7000. One of them is Bill Kralovec, a 41-years-old man who is the

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From Serbia, Life In New York Feels Like A Bad Dream

Just last week we were talking about Serbs moving back to Serbia. In fact, as we noted, Serbs are everywhere,

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Serb Expats Moving Back To Serbia

The Serbs population outside Serbia outnumbers the total number of Americans living abroad. Despite the fact that no accurate estimate exists of the total number of Serbs and American citizens living abroad,

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Princess Madison Feels At Home In Belgrade

Just a few weeks ago, we pointed out the statements made by Liz Kuebler, an American studying in Belgrade, claiming that “living on one of the most beautiful streets in Belgrade, I

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Serbian Style Cheese Pie

When most North Americans think of phyllo, Greek food usually comes to mind; spanakopita, bougatsa, baklava, and various other turnovers and pies that are eaten all over the Greek Isles. But phyllo

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Subjective Atlas Of Serbia

There’s an excellent book out there, perhaps the funniest book ever written about Serbia, called “Subjective Atlas of Serbia”. For many months, a group of thirty six young Serbian artists,

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How Safe Is Cycling On A Motorway In Serbia?

Sam Williams, a 25-year-old adventurer cycling more than 6,000 miles to East Africa starting in London on March 27, found that riding on a motorway in Serbia is safe. As you may know cyclists are quite

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Why The Heavy Metal Scene In Belgrade Is Thriving?

There have been plenty of stories this year about Belgrade’s night life, though, not many of them have touched on Belgrade’s local heavy metal scene. That’s why it’s great to see this

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Why It’s So Hard To Define Serbia?

It never fails to amaze me the number of people that compare Belgrade to another city, and Serbia to another country. Last month, we wrote about Lisa Toboz, a traveler of Bloomfield (Pittsburgh) who spent

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Is Serbia A Safe Place To Travel With Kids?

A few years ago, Natalie Holmes wrote a well-worth reading article for the Independent about Kopaonik, noting that Kopaonik

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