Last week I enjoyed with my wife a small holiday in the region of Trieste, in the Northeastern corner of Italy. We were in Grado…
“Hier ruhen Serbischen helden”
On a monument in a forgotten corner of Košutnjak park in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is written in “Hier ruhen Serbischen helden” (German), below…
Living on the border of the European Union: Kenđija in Serbia
Last weekend I was with friends in Kenđija, located in the Northwestern part of Serbia, where Serbia meets Hungary and Croatia. When I opened my…
Kovačica, the centre of naïve art
Yesterday it was 1st May and that means a public holiday in Serbia so we decided to finally go to Kovačica, a village approximately 47…
“Sorry we did not know it was invisible”
When NATO started to bomb Yugoslavia on 24/03/1999, it was the 1st war of NATO without an UN mandate and disrespecting the Geneva conventions. In…
Ten things you probably did not know about Serbia
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…
Serbian traffic: time for a change in mentality
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…
Serbian integration lesson: “the Greek beaches”
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…
Thessaloniki Railway station: Now and than
Last Wednesday (05 July 2017) I was at the railway station of Thessaloniki in Greece. On the 9th October 2004 I was here the last…
Missing the train to Western-Europe
The day starts more or less with the Eurocity train “Avala” to Vienna, which leaves Belgrade at 07h36, while some earlier local trains have already…