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, and the one from Budapest's nearly worn out. Where's next? What?! Belgrade? Serbia?!" We bombed them five years ago! Six years later, it's no secret that Belgrade is still not a very popular vacation destination, Belgrade ...

Last month the progressive power metal band Manticora was in Belgrade. Formed in 1997 in Hvidovre, Denmark by Lars Larsen (vocals), Kristian Larsen (guitars) and Mads Volf (drums), the band is touring throughout Europe and came to Serbia. Lars Larsen put up a blog post today talking a bit about Belgrade "Belgrade was a cool metropol with a nice atmosphere." ...

We recently wrote about Mark Hamilton, a journalist, finding Serbian women beautiful. However, many tourists are unaware that Serbian women and men are also tall. A few years ago, an American of Serbian origin responded to the question Are Serbs the tallest nation on earth? "Some years back, I decided to attend a service at the local Serbian Orthodox Church. ...

Pulling into the train station from our grueling cross mountain trip, we arrived exhausted and sore in Belgrade. Beograd, Serbia is a beautiful mixture of Old city, sitting atop its hilltop fortress, newer city edging its ancient streets away from the fortress and the newest communistic residential blocks across the river staring bluntly into the sunset. Belgrade is Eastern Europes ...

According to Jasna Dimitrijevic, the director of the Belgrade Tourist Organization, the number of foreign tourists visiting Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, has increased in spite of the crisis. The number of foreign tourists visiting Belgrade increased by 5% in the first five months of 2009 as compared to the same period of 2008, while the number of foreign tourists ...

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 brought a striking array of international retail names to the Serbian market, including Massimo Dutti, Mexx, Mango, Morgan, Intimissimi, Sephora, Woman’ Secret, Benetton, Gant, Mandarina Duck, Hugo Boss, D&G, Armani, Iceberg, GF Ferre, Galliano, ...

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 from Serbia, in Brazil. And who is behind the Go East party? Not a Serb as you might expect but a 24 years old half brazilian, half portuguese producer, Maria Almeida who fell in Love with Belgrade, ...

Mark Hamilton, a well-known journalist (now a journalism instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Richmond, British Columbia), put up the first blog post this week in a series of short photo-and-word essays that arise from four weeks of travel through the Balkans. In his first essay, Hamilton is talking about Serbian girls. "There are many strikingly attractive women in Belgrade. ...

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. They are not flying to Göteborg like the rest of us would – Don and Siggy love cycling. The epic trip will see them pedalling 3000 km between Istanbul ...

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 like the cheeses: mladi sir, kosi (goat's cheese) and the wonderful kajmak. I also like the white bread and djevreci (bagels), baked every day. ...