Posts from ‘February, 2009’

I went to the post office this morning with the little card the postman left yesterday to pick up a parcel which was waiting for me. It was my copy of the recently published Belgrade Belongs To Me: Photographs By Boogie. It’s an engrossing photo book by one of Serbia’s best photographers, Boogie, who captures [...]

Photo by ARTS
A new survey has shed some light on the daily habits of your average Serbian citizen. Here’s a rundown of some of the published results:

The average Serbian citizen wakes up at 7 a.m.
The average Serbian teenager doesn’t wake up before 9 a.m. on weekdays
42.5 percent of Serbs aged 18-25 sleep until (or after) [...]

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Thanks to Beogradoholik, whom you can follow on Twitter @Beogradoholik, for pointing this out.
Have you ever wanted to see what’s happening in Belgrade but can’t because you don’t live there? Perhaps you just want to conduct a bit of spying on the city’s residents? Well, thanks to strategically placed web cameras at Trg Nikole [...]

This photo was taken from the window of the newly-renovated Beograd department store on Terazije square. Terazije is officially considered to be the very centre of Belgrade. The green and yellow building is the Hotel Moskva (Moscow Hotel). Built in 1906, it is one of Belgrade’s most recognisable landmarks and is famed for its restaurant [...]

It’s official -  Madonna, undoubtedly the queen of pop, is returning to the Balkans following her Budva, Montenegro, concert last year. Gigs in Belgrade, Ljubljana, Bucharest and Sofia have been added to the the second half of her Sticky & Sweet Tour, which will visit 22 European cities this July and August.
Rumours have been circulating [...]

It snowed almost non-stop for several days last week in Belgrade, covering the city in inches upon inches of clean, white snow. Unfortunately, it’s not so pretty when it becomes slushy and dirty.
This is photo was taken on Saturday afternoon at Republic Square (Trg republike). It’s one of the main meeting points for friends before [...]

Photo by Violentz
According to a report (in Serbian) by the Union of Economists of Serbia, Belgrade is the cheapest capital city in the region when it comes to the price of food. The researchers recorded the prices of 28 different food products, such as bananas, yogurt, bread, apple juice, beer, flour, potatoes, chicken and toothpaste, [...]

This rather interesting building is the YU Business Centre (YU Biznis Centar) on Bulevar Mihaila Pupina in New Belgrade (Novi Beograd). New Belgrade is a 15.7 sq miles municipality over the Sava river from Belgrade’s centre on a former swamp and around 240,000 people live there. Its construction started in 1947, which still continues to [...]

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Djavolja Varos – which literally means ‘Devil’s Town’ – is a natural rock formation, described as earth pyramids, in southern Serbia near the Radan mountains. This Serbian government protected site has made it amongst the top 77 candidates to become one of the Official New 7 Wonders of Nature and is currently number 1 [...]

This is a typical communal entrance to a block of flats in Belgrade with individual post boxes/pigeon holes for each flat in the building. Coming from the UK, I was a bit shocked that your mail was left downstairs and not delivered through your own personal letter box in the door, especially because the boxes [...]