You may recall (of course) that Belgrade is friendly and welcoming to foreigners. We recently pointed out the statements made by Lisa Toboz, a traveler of Bloomfield, noting that people in Belgrade are friendly. She pointed out that there were times she felt as if she were in New York. This echoes a blog post by a 25 year old ...

It seems like a decade or so ago, it was pretty easy to find a traveller who had a story about the taxi scams of Belgrade. There's been so much press coverage about the so-called Belgrade taxi mafia (unlicensed taxi drivers)  that you wonder who could possibly still fall for them. Apparently, the answer is Annie Nieman who was visiting ...

Last week, we wrote about how more foreigners are starting to figure it out: Belgrade is a safe and overtly friendly city. Another day gone by and another story about Begrade and Serbian hospitality. In this case, it's Lisa Toboz, a traveler of Bloomfield who has a blog post noting that Belgrade has so much energy and friendly people: And I’m ...

Over the weekend, B92 ran an article noting that tap water in Belgrade is safe for drinking. It notes that the most recent analysis on water quality were presented by the Belgrade Institute of Public Health. The report says that water quality was determined by collecting and analyzing 6678 water samples in 2008. The results show that there is no ...

An anonymous reader points us to a blog post about internet access in Serbia. There are a number of issues here, all of which seem troubling. Frankly, the piece is so bizarre that it would make more sense as a badly written parody. First, it claims that Serbia is a third world country "In class this week we discussed how ...

We recently pointed out the statements made by Wade, a traveler, who has ventured through over 40 countries on five continents, insisting that Belgrade is very much welcoming, overtly friendly, and safe for foreigners. Slowly, but surely, more travelers are starting to figure it out: Belgrade is a safe city for foreigners. Whether they want to believe it or not, Belgrade ...

I really want to stop writing stories about clueless Dutch politicians making braindead statements about Serbia's Full cooperation with the Hague Tribunal, but it just never stops. The latest is that the Dutch foreign minister, Maxim Verhagen, is claiming that the arrest of Ratko Mladic would be the best proof that Serbia accepts European values: Full cooperation with the court in ...