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…
A Yugoslav rock in The Netherlands
Amersfoort is a city in the province of Utrecht in the centre of the Netherlands. It is the 15th biggest city in the Netherlands and…
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…
High above the Adriatic stands ‘Lovćen’
There are a few places which I have (until now) visited which impressed me so much as the mountain Lovćen in Montenegro. The mountain is…
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…
Above the clouds in Serbia
Today we arrived in Mokra Gora in Western Serbia for a couple of days. The whole trip it was foggy, rainy and cloudy. When we…
Just 10 pictures from our last small holiday in Serbia
Due to the travel restrictions this summer (yes #Covid) we did not travel outside Serbia. So we went to Mokra Gora in South-West Serbia and…
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…