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I snapped a hurried shot of these advertising boards from a tram I was travelling on in New Belgrade the other day. The black sign with the white text simply says ‘BE’ in Serbian. Anyone have any idea what it’s for? You can also see from the photo that summer has moved over for winter [...]

Here’s a shot of a barbeque (rostilj in Serbian) I went to over the weekend at a friend’s house. Although it was probably the last outside barbeque of the summer, rostilj is a Serbian speciality and is available to eat in restaurants and fast food places all year round. The sausage shaped items at the [...]

28-year-old Toulouse football supporter Brice Taton died this morning in a Belgrade hospital. Brice was critically injured on 17 September while sitting with other Toulouse fans in a cafe in central Belgrade when a group of some 30 hooligans/cowards attacked them unprovoked. This incident, along with a series of other attacks on foreigners over the [...]

This is Resavska ulica on a sunny afternoon in Belgrade. You may recognise it from this photo I took a few months back when it was in the middle of being dug up and renovated. The street reopened to cars and trams two weeks ago (if memory serves me right). It’s much better now with [...]

The second attempt to hold a LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered) pride march in Belgrade has failed. It was announced this morning that it has been cancelled due to security fears. The police and the state can’t guarantee the safety of Serbian citizens marching for tolerance, understanding and an end to discrimination.
Far right nationalist [...]

Bulevar kralja Aleksandra (King Aleksandar Boulevard) again makes an appearance in the Belgrade Weekly Phone Photo Series here at BalkanFile. This is much further up the boulevard than in previous photos. If you look at the very right hand side of the photo (click to enlarge), you can see a sign for a shop selling [...]

CeSID (Centre for Free Elections and Democracy) has published here (Blic) and here (24sata) some of the results from a market research project for the Belgrade City Youth Office which canvased Belgrade’s young adults (15 to 30 years old) on what they do (or don’t do) during their free time and their thoughts on life. [...]

This is the Vozdovac Municipal Hall / Town Hall building. Vozdovac is one of Belgrade’s 17 municipalities. It is a very large neighbourhood located a few kilometres south of Belgrade city centre with a population of around 150,000 and sprawling out over an area of 150 square kilometres. The municipality has agricultural areas, highly-dense residential [...]

A street lamp in a residential street in Belgrade with a mass of wires, electrical I presume, wrapped around it and heading off in all directions.
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I captured this cute cat at the weekend while wandering around a part of Belgrade near the top of King Aleksandar Boulevard (Bulevar kralja Aleksandra). He or she was probably a stray and seemed very thin, though I don’t know whether that’s because of its young age or from a lack of food. S/he was [...]

This is a night time shot of Belgrade University’s Law Faculty (Pravni fakultet). The building, which is located on Bulevar krajla Aleksandra, was built before World War II and was renovated with the building of a modern annex in 1995. The faculty covers an area of 12,000 sq metres and has 60 offices, eight lecture [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

This is “Ljuba’s Butcher Shop” in Kaleniceva pijaca, one of the main Belgrade green markets (fresh produce markets). It’s located in the Vracar district of Belgrade. This is where I buy fresh meat or processed meat, like hams and sausages, unless I’ve already bought them from a supermarket. Ljuba’s is not the only meat seller [...]

It’s a grey, rainy and cold day in Belgrade today, a marked difference from the high temperatures and blazing sunshine of last week. As I went out to get some groceries this morning, I was caught by surprise by these pigeons who had set up home in my stairwell, seemingly sheltering from the weather outside. [...]

In Belgrade, roadworks are done a bit differently to those back in the UK. This is Resavska street in central Belgrade, which has been completely dug up with new tram tracks, road surfaces and pavements being made. But if you need to go to a shop, get to your flat or normally use this street [...]

Here’s a cool cat I saw outside a pet shop just to the left of Studentski trg/Student Square on Friday. I think the pet shop owners own the cat, considering it has its own little shelter from the sun that also serves as a table for the shop’s staff on their cigarette and coffee breaks. [...]

Here’s a snapshot of Belgrader’s waiting for the bus on Bulevar Despota Stefana (formerly 29. Novembra). I was happily already on a bus going in the other direction. For Balkan File’s British readers, it may look like they’re forming a polite queue, but they’re not. It can be a free for all to [...]

I was eating in a restaurant opposite the Cathedral (Saborna crkva) in Belgrade this weekend and captured this shot of a wedding party leaving to go the wedding reception (the bridesmaid had just entered the car by the time I got my phone out). A Roma brass band came out of nowhere and played for [...]

United States Vice President Joe Biden is finishing off his one-day visit to Belgrade and will soon be tucked up in his hotel room before heading down to Kosovo tomorrow. He arrived at Belgrade Airport just before 10am and was met by Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic and was then given the red carpet treatment by [...]

These are posters for events and concerts coming up in Belgrade. They’ve been posted onto a metal barrier around a construction site. You can see that Enrique Iglesias, AC/DC, WWE American wrestling and DJ Marco Carola, as well as the homegrown Bora Dugic, will be entertaining Belgraders (and people from elsewhere in Serbia and the [...]

Photo by Andy Mettler
On Wednesday, United States Vice President Joe Biden will visit Belgrade – the most senior US official to do so in 30 years. According to the US, the visit is an opportunity to “reset” US-Serbia relations. Of course, security is going to be extremely tight. Here’s a rundown of some of those [...]

This is a notice on a kiosk looking for new workers. What was interesting for me was finding out how much the kiosk workers earn a month. The notice says that the monthly pay for the day shift is 28,000 dinars, which is around 295 euro, while the night shift (the kiosk works 24/7) pays [...]

This is a typical kiosk or trafika, which can be found all over Belgrade and other towns and cities across Serbia. They’re essentially mini newsagents or convenience stores from which you can buy newspapers, magazines, mobile phone credit, cigarettes, public transport tickets, sweets, crisps, alcohol, juice, coffee, tissues, lighters and sometimes even DVDs. There are [...]

The BBC has written about the opening of a new SOS Market branch in Belgrade. The first of these social supermarkets, which sell groceries at lower prices, opened around a month ago. They aim to make life that little bit easier for Serbia’s poorer residents who are feeling the pinch of the global economic crisis.
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Spring has definitely arrived in Belgrade. This is Trg Nikole Pasica (Nikola Pasic Square) on a beautiful spring day with tulips and greenery everywhere. Belgrade really springs to life with colour once winter subsides. The fountain in the centre of the photo is most welcome when it becomes hotter as the spray cools you down [...]

It was unusually quiet and tranquil whilst walking around Belgrade city centre yesterday. Many of the main streets were free of the usual bumper-to-bumper traffic because earlier in the day there had been a marathon and the roads were still blocked off. This is a photo of Kralja Milana street, which is a large thoroughfare [...]