Morning walk through Kalemegdan
This morning I had to walk through Kalemegdan, the old fortress of Belgrade, on my way to my office. Definitely…
Category: History
Destruction of railway heritage in Serbia
Yesterday the Serbian media reported (read here the news report in English from B92) that vandals damaged old steam locomotives…
An old railway carriage with a glorious past (or not)…..
Last Saturday I went to our train model club (Klub ljubitelja železnice Beograd) were we have a old Slovenian post…
The first victim of WWI: Dušan Đonović
In the night of 28/29th July 1914 the first shots of the First World War were fired by the Austro-Hungarian…
“Belgrad, ici Belgrad”
“Belgrad, ici (=here) Belgrad”, you hear in the James Bond movie “From Russia with love”, when the most famous British…
“Hier ruhen Serbischen helden”
On a monument in a forgotten corner of Košutnjak park in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, is written in “Hier…
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…
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…
“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. In…