„Hey! „ „ …man…„ „…what are you doing?„ „…are you up?„ Messenger notifications from my cell phone, on which I had forgotten to turn off the sound, were piercing my ears. It was Lazar, my high school friend, now working on his PhD in history. „ It is Saturday… 8 AM… I am sleeping… what […]
There is a great probability that a lot of Belgradians don’t know what they had for lunch yesterday. But in the whole Serbia you won’t find a person that doesn’t know exactly where they were and what they did on that fatal 24. March 1999. On that day NATO bombing began. The North Atlantic Treaty […]
My father Augustin Heussen was born on the 20th of February 1921 in Krefeld, Germany. The following lines are summarizing impressions and experiences from his diary written during his 1939 Balkan tour. After school on the 17th of July 1939 he was ordered to do his crop service in Königsberg, now Kalinengrad, in East Prussia […]
PICNIC+FRIENDS+BBQ =LABOR DAY Usually Labor day is associated with unions protesting against oppression, or at least with sending strong message by employees to employers that they are organized in claiming their rights guaranteed by the law. You might think that in Serbia, as former socialism country, this tradition is even stronger and more rooted in […]
Was the common reaction I got from people when mentioning a visit that ‘far away Balkan country’ – or let’s say from those who actually knew where Serbia is. Well, honestly speaking, I could have found a list of reasons not to go myself: Serbia does not have any seaside, a lot of people who […]
Belgrade is becoming an attractive destination for many travelers all over the year, especially for the New Year and Christmas holidays. Many visitors say that spending the New Year’s Eve in the Serbian capital is the most amusing thing to do, no matter if they welcome the New Year on the square, in some restaurant […]
Exchanging currencies when travelling can be tricky, especially if you travel to the part of the world where they are using currency for which you have never heard before. It gets even more confusing when all the prices in the country are expressed in Euros, everybody are mentioning Euros when talking about prices, but you […]
No need to stay at home because you’re single, female and the wrong side of 60. And you can be a bit disabled too. Love travelling, meeting new people, seeing places and experiencing different cultures and societies, but I am all of the above and, while I do need to plan and research my itinerary, […]
Balkan is a peninsula connecting Europe and Middle East and this crossroads between the East and the West has always attracted many invaders. As a result of that, nations blended in for centuries in this region, as well as their cultures and customs. Many tourists praise the traditional cuisine when they visit Balkans, although it […]
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