Day 68 to 72 Belgrade

Hi guys, have spent the last couple of days in Belgrade… just a fantastic city… I am so amazed with the people who are extremely friendly and helpful to strangers. If you stop someone on the street to chat or ask for directions they always take the time and perhaps walk with you a part of the way to make sure you get right… amazing!

During my hitchhiking over from Sarajevo I had a long chat with a truck driver that had been a tank commander during the war. Was very interesting to hear the horrors of war from someone who actually had been there destroying all those buildings I saw on the way… (He had been leading a division of 10 tanks and destroyed several villages… something he was very sad and embarrassed about).Or as when my first host in Belgrade lost his hole company when the war started and had to leave the country since he was a deserter… so many peoples live changed due to that war.

There where a LOT of hitchhikers outside Sarajevo… definitely another culture here (and a lot of people picking people up as well…)

 

You can’t really see it here, but behind these trees is something as special as a catholic and protestant church built together into one building… cool!

My Serbian friend had a passport issued in 2008… and it still says Yugoslavia…

 

A nice lake in central Belgrade that we went swimming in (yea, the water was warm :-D))

Visiting the mother of my host… she made great food for us. (My first host in Belgrade on the picture)

The new train station that has been under construction for the last 25 years… someone got something wrong in the planning I think 😉

 

This is what happens when the US decides to send some cruising missiles into your country… (this was the military headquarters in Belgrade that was bombed during the Kosovo conflict).

 

Belgrade by night

The third largest Cathedral in the world… currently under construction… will take another 10 years to finish all the paintings inside.

  

A great t-shirt print 😀

 

Going to the air-show… cars are driving on both the left and ride side of the road…welcome to Serbia in a traffic jam…

 

Of course the kids should climb and play on cruise missiles…

 

Loads of cool airplanes and helicopters. The guy to the right was showing me around 😀

Probably the most “up hotted” Yugo in existence 😀 (Yugo is a Serbian car brand)

My second host in Belgrade in the middle and two Slovakian girls who where also surfing with her at the same time as me.

 

Ivana on a close up 😀