In the spring of 2012 I got intrigued by a World War I monument in Garderen, the Netherlands. On the monument there is a text…
The statue of Rocky Balboa / Statua Roki Balboa
Until yesterday I never knew about a village with the name of Zitiste, a village in Vojvodina, a region in Serbia. It is not far…
Monasteries in Fruška Gora
Today we made a tour in Fruška Gora, a mountainous area between Novi Sad and Belgrade. Fruška Gora is also a national park and there…
Kosmaj: Star Wars in Serbia ?
Personally I am not a Star Wars fan at all , but I think today we visited a place which would fit in this kind…
Milovan Milojević from Azanja
Milovan Milojević was born in 1889 in Azanja, a village in the Podunavlje district approximately 80 kilometres South-East of Serbia’s capital Belgrade.When the First World…
“Oh poor lonely Gavrilo”
On 28th of June, Vidovdan in Serbia, a statue was unveiled for Gavrilo Princip in Belgrade, Serbia. It was a gift from Republika Srpska, which…
The First shot of the First World War
The first actual shots of the war were fired just after 1am on 29 July when Austro-Hungarian naval vessels on the river Sava opened fire…
15 years ago…
Fifteen years ago I was a student studying public administration in the Netherlands and I was member of AEGEE, the European student organization. Fifteen years…
Memorial service in Garderen
The 5th October there was a memorial service for the Serbian WWI soldiers who died in the Netherlands by the monument for them in Garderen…
Remains of Serbian POWs who died in the Netherlands have been found after 75 years
THE HAGUE / BELGRADE – Recent research has shown that the remains of 89 Serb prisoners of war who died in the Netherlands in 1919…