World leaders in the Friendship Park in Belgrade
When socialist Yugoslavia rose from the ashes of WWII it did not want to be part of any political bloc…
Category: Yugoslavia
Mythical locomotives for Tito’s blue train.
Dinara, Kozara, Sutjeska and Neretva are names of famous battles which the Yugoslav partisans fought against the Germans during the…
Joegoslavië / Yugoslavia / Jugoslawien express (2)
I write earlier about the Joegoslavië / Yugoslavia / Jugoslawien express (link), the direct train between the Netherlands and Yugoslavia (-Greece/Turkey)…
Joegoslavië / Yugoslavia / Jugoslawien express
When my father, who was working for more than 40 years for the Nederlandse Spoorwegen (= Dutch railways) , gave…
10/01/2019
Plavi Voz – the Blue train
The Nutshell times wrote a beautiful blog about the ” plavi voz “, translated as ” the blue train ”…
Belgrade – Bar by train during autumn
Belgrade (the capital of Serbia) and Bar (a sea port in Montenegro) are connected by a 476 kilometres long railway.…
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…
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…
Holocaust memorial day
The 27th January it is #HolocaustMemorial day so that we never forget the Holocaust. Unfortunately, it seems that anno 2018…