"Short stories and travel reports from my life adventures around the globe".
Winter Vibes at Lake Ada, Belgrade. February 2021. I can still picture Sladja and I wincing out the window of our apartment. “Hm, is this really the right afternoon for a lakeside walk?” It was a biting cold, grey, gloomy February morning in the Serbian capital. We really could have just stayed at home, curled […]
Read MoreHotel 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 back in Serbia. Aside, that is, […]
Read MoreInside Belgrade’s Museum of Contemporary Art. November 2020. It was a chilly morning as Sladja and I made our way through the Park of Friendship toward Belgrade’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Neither of us can pretend to have much expertise when it comes to contemporary art. Rather, the museum was right on the doorstep of […]
Read MorePark 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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Read MoreChurch of St Sava, Belgrade. August 2019. Belgrade is a city that’s positively blessed with picturesque churches. Among the finest of these structures, I’ve already blogged about the stunning St Mark’s Church. And the exceptionally pretty St Petka’s Chapel and Ruzica Church nestled within Belgrade Fortress. However, if I had to choose the Serbian capital’s […]
Read MoreMuseum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade. August 2019. I hadn’t been aware of it before my visit to the Serbian capital. But actually my general knowledge of modern history and its key world leaders had a large Yugoslavia shaped hole in it. Churchill? Sure, I have a solid overview. Stalin? Yup, I could certainly give you a […]
Read MoreAn Afternoon Exploring Zemun, Belgrade. August 2019. It was yet another sweltering sunny day in Belgrade as Sladja and I rumbled through the city in a bus destined for the neighbourhood of Zemun. For the first time we were leaving downtown behind for a change of scenery and pace. Nestled on and around the right […]
Read MoreNikola Tesla Museum, Belgrade. August 2019. I like to think of myself as a broadly positive traveller. The sort who looks, instinctively, for what a place offers rather than what it lacks. That doesn’t mean ignoring the negatives—just meeting them with a degree of balance, a willingness to understand before judging. But every now and […]
Read MoreExploring Belgrade Fortress, Serbia. August 2019. When I look back on my first visit to the Serbian capital, it doesn’t get any more nostalgic than Belgrade Fortress. This is one of the country’s most iconic and historic sites. A majestic beast of a cultural monument with a killer location perched above the confluence of the […]
Read MoreSt Mark’s Church, Belgrade. August 2019. Sladja and I had had a fantastic few hours exploring the sights of Tasmajdan Park. Now, at last, it was time to head inside its most dominant landmark, St Mark’s Church. This handsome Serbo-Byzantine structure opened in 1940 upon the designs of the Krstić brothers, two of Serbia’s most acclaimed […]
Read MoreTasmajdan Park, Belgrade. August 2019. I’ll never forget my first summer in Belgrade. It was the early days of my relationship with Sladja and there was a palpable sense of excitement and expectancy between us. In fact, I had come to the Serbian capital so that… at long last… we could finally hang out. An […]
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