The Hotel Palácio in Estoril, a place on the Atlantic coast near the Portugese capital Lissabon is not an ordinary hotel. The hotel was during…
The first sunset of 2023 in…. Belgrade – Serbia
The first sunset of the year 2023 I witnessed in Belgrade, it almost become a tradition. From the fortress Kalemegdan, overlooking the confluence of the…
Flandres-Riviera
Once there were many international trains. If you just look to the international time table of 1974 of the Netherlands (here) there were many trains…
The Benelux in Yugoslavia
The Benelux stands for Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg and was the front runner of the European Union. The title of this blog might surprise…
‘The Blue Train in Serbia’
In the Topčider depot in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, there is a special train kept with the name ‘Plavi Voz’, literally translated as the…
The old Sava railway bridge in Belgrade
Today we walked along the Sava river in Belgrade, which forms the geographical border between Central-Europe (North) and the Balkans (South). Until 1918 the border…
The year when we did not only skipped “April u Beogradu”
“April u Beogradu” is a famous song (listen here) about maybe one of the most beautiful months in Belgrade: April and the spring in full…
Dutch garbage transported by train wagons from Yugoslavia
The VAM stands for ‘Vuil Afvoer Maatschappij’ (in English translated as “garbage disposal company”) and was a Dutch company which arranged the garbage disposal for…
The Danube river and the Iron Gates – a small history
In the last weekend of June we visited with good friends the Djerdap National Park, with in it the Iron Gates. The Iron Gates (in…
A video from 1977 about a trip on the Belgrade-Bar railway
After I wrote an article for the NVBS (a Dutch train hobby club) I got some nice replies. One person, Kees van de Meene, was…