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Where to Eat & Drink in Belgrade (Part (II).

Where to Eat & Drink in Belgrade (Part (II). 2019-2024. Despite my grumbles about aspects of the food and drink scene in Belgrade, there are plenty more recommended cafes, restaurants and bars to bring you. Following on from last week’s first instalment, here is my concluding batch of culinary locations from across the city. Let’s […]

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More Cool Spots Around Belgrade.

More Cool Spots Around Belgrade. August 2019 – January 2024. Following on from my recent article, Cool Spots Around Belgrade, it’s time to mop up my final collection of underrated spots from across the Serbian capital. So come with me for a tour of More Cool Spots Around Belgrade. Sladja and I have spent countless […]

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A Journey Through Belgrade’s Street Art.

A Journey Through Belgrade’s Street Art. August 2019 & October 2020 – August 2021. I don’t know about you but I always find that street art plays a crucial role in determining how I feel about a city. Oftentimes these public expressions spring forth as vessels of freedom, creativity, community, identity, history and national pride. […]

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The Unknown Hero of Avala Mountain.

The Unknown Hero of Avala Mountain. Belgrade, Serbia. May 2021. “How tall is this mountain anyway?” I wondered, out loud, as our bus stop-started its way through the morning traffic. It was a warm May Monday morning and we were excited about our project to track down Serbia’s mysterious unknown hero. “Oh not all that […]

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The Silent Sentinels of Belgrade New Cemetery.

The Silent Sentinels of Belgrade New Cemetery. April 2021. “All those people, all those lives, where are they now? With loves and hates, and passions just like mine. They were born, and then they lived, and then they died.  It seems so unfair, I want to cry”. Cemetery Gates, The Smiths, 1986. I’ve always wanted to […]

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Green Fingers at Jevremovac Botanical Garden, Belgrade.

Jevremovac Botanical Garden, Belgrade. April 2021. I have so many botanical garden articles sitting in my drafts waiting to be written up. As incurable addicts of greenery and tranquility, Sladja and I find it hard to pass up such gardens whenever they hover onto our radar. Belgrade’s botanical garden enjoys a central location in the […]

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Spring Awakens at Topčider Park, Belgrade.

Spring Awakens at Topčider Park, Belgrade. March 2021. Winter was a real slog that year in the Serbian capital. In fact, the cold, wind, rain and gloom were still stubbornly holding their own as grey February trudged cheerlessly into colourless March. But as the month wore on, things started looking up. First we received dates […]

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In the Footsteps of Greatness at Hotel Moskva.

In the Footsteps of Greatness at Hotel Moskva. Belgrade, Serbia. January 2021 & January 2024. Sladja and I were starting to feel more than a touch claustrophobic in our little apartment in New Belgrade. With the pandemic still very much in full swing, we had done very little exploring in the three months we’d been […]

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Jogs & Strolls at the Park of Friendship, Belgrade.

Park of Friendship, Belgrade. November 2020 – March 2021. In the autumn of 2020 Sladja and I landed in Belgrade following a three-week stay in Istanbul. Which had actually been a pitstop of sorts on the way home from Cambodia, where we’d been happily stuck for 8 months after the whole COVID-19 mess broke out. […]

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