Posts from ‘July, 2009’

This is the view of Knez Mihailova ulica (Prince Michael Street) you’ll see if you sit in Snezana, a famous restaurant on this even more famous pedestrianised central thoroughfare. The street is always packed with friends, couples and families walking up and down. Many will stop to buy an ice cream or lollipop from the [...]

The Guardian has written an online (not sure if it’s in print) article about Belgrade’s nightlife, focusing on dancing and drinking opportunities both along the Danube river and in the city.
Garth Cartwright sums up exactly why I love Belgrade at night:
Every night of the week it is home to a huge variety of clubs and [...]

That’s right, you read correctly. Bosnia-Herzegovina, that country of 3 million people in Europe, does not exist. Period. Well, according to Citroën at least.

(www.24ur.com)
This map appeared on a new promotional campaign for the French car manufacturer Citroën. As you can plainly see, Bosnia has been swallowed up by Croatia and Serbia. Slovenia is suspiciously larger, [...]

This is Bulevar Milutina Milankovica, otherwise known as Treci bulevar (Third Boulevard) to most Belgraders – street names change far too often and most people tend to use the old ones – on a hot, summer’s day in Novi Beograd. I took this while waiting for a tram, which go and up and down in [...]

Last weekend I spent 4 days at EXIT – an annual music festival held in the Petrovaradin fortress in Novi Sad, a city 80-odd km north of Belgrade. This year’s EXIT, which began in 2000 as a protest against the Slobodan Milosevic government, was the 10th anniversary. Around 200,000 people visited it this year over [...]

This is Knez Mihailova street in central Belgrade. It joins Kalemegdan park and Terazije and is the main pedestrianised shopping street in Belgrade, with bookshops, fashion stores, jewellers and coffee shops. It’s always full of people, day and night – couples, friends and families walking up and down, doing a spot of (window) shopping and [...]