"Short stories and travel reports from my life adventures around the globe".
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 […]
Read MoreSpring 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 […]
Read MoreWinter 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. […]
Read MoreOnce Upon a Time in Prague. December 2002 & February 2012. In late 2002 I was living in Bratislava, where I worked as an English teacher. Any free time us teachers had (and there was plenty of it) went to the seemingly endless travel options in and around Slovakia. My first trip to Prague was […]
Read MoreSnippets of Vienna. October 2002 & June 2003. I always feel a bit uncomfortable when people ask me if I’ve ever been to Vienna. This is because while I have visited (twice actually), it isn’t a city I was able to get under the skin of. In fact, I barely brushed the surface. Circumstances very […]
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Read MoreJia Jia and the Warriors, a short story from China. After a prolonged period of stability, I finally bid farewell to Belgium in the summer of 2009. Uninspired by life in grey, uneventful Brussels, I headed off to China for an unforgettable year of teaching and traveling. —- The slow train from Beijing to Pingyao […]
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