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2017 in 10 panorama pictures

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Posted on 23/12/2017

Here a different year overview than all the other ones 🙂 : the year 2017 in 10 panorama pictures, I made them all myself and…

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The last train from/to Belgrade….

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Posted on 06/12/2017

On a memorial plate in the main railway station of Belgrade you can read:  “This building was opened 23rd August 1884 when Belgrade had 35480…

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02/11/2017: Presentation at the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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Posted on 03/11/2017

On the 2nd November 2017 we were honored to present the results of our research to H.E. Mr. Dačić, the Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister…

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The Serbian WWI soldiers from the Gornji Milanovac who died in the Netherlands

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Posted on 16/10/2017

“This morning, during a solemn ceremony, 4 Serbian Prisoners of War (PoW) were buried with a military escort. Three of them died in the quarantine…

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Ovčar-Kablar : “The Serbian mount Athos”

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Posted on 24/09/2017

Yesterday I hiked in the Ovčar-Kalblar gorge with the “Belgrade Foreigners club”. This gorge is located just south of Čačak, a town in Central-Serbia.  We…

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Ten things you probably did not know about Serbia

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Posted on 08/09/2017

1. Hospitality You will not know until you enjoyed it: the first thing you did not know about Serbia is the hospitality of the Serbian…

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Three years in Serbia

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Posted on 16/08/2017

On the 1st August 2014, three years ago, I stepped in the plane on Eindhoven-Airport (the Netherlands) which brought me to Аеродром Никола Тесла Београд…

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On this day (28/07/1914): The first bombs on Belgrade, the start of WWI.

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Posted on 28/07/2017

On this day, 103 years earlier, the Austro-Hungarian government send a telegram(see below)  to the Serbian government with a declaration of war. It was the…

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Serbian traffic: time for a change in mentality

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Posted on 27/07/2017

I started driving lessons when I was 18 and when passing the driving exam I passed it straight away. This was in Utrecht, the Netherlands…

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Serbian integration lesson: “the Greek beaches”

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Posted on 19/07/2017

It is almost 3 years ago that I moved from the Netherlands to Serbia and slowly but surely I integrate more and more into the…

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