Last month when I was in Paris I was bitching about the weather and when I went to Belgrade three weeks ago I couldn't believe how beautiful the weather was. I arrived on a Sunday morning and the weather was brilliant: Sunshine and degrees over 25° Celsius. What else can you ask for? But wait, my meteorological happyness lasted only one day! The very next day, I was going to particiapte at the exhibition so I had to get up early. But I could not believe my eyes when I looked out of the hotel window: dark grey clouds with tons of rain splashing against my window. What the fuck had happened? Maybe it is just a cloud I thought. It can't be that one day I was gaping after beautiful serbian girls in mini skirts and the next day I was drowning in the flood of the century?? That was some crazy Balkan weather.
I have to say, I stayed the whole week in Belgrade and it was like this every single day. I had a room at hotel Life Design, which is in the heart of the city. It is a nice hotel with nicely-decorated, clean rooms. Very recommendable. Right next door was a strip club but unfortunately I didn't go in since I heard only bad stories about such places where they rip you off prettttty gooooood!! But judging from the girls that you see on the streets you can say that serbian girls are indeed really pretty.
Anyways, back to the subject: Flood of the century.
Each time we left the hotel me and my colleague got soaking wet. Nice thing about the hotel was that it had a spa area where guests of the hotel could enjoy different varieties of sauna and a jakuzzi pool.
But boy the weather was depressing. Belgrade is boring as far as sightseeing goes. They have a nice castle and were heavily influenced by the Ottoman. Turks left their mark everywhere. One guy made a joke about it. He told me:
-hey once we were all blond and blue eyed like the Slovenians but after the Turks fucking our nannies for 400 years..look at us..we look like Anatolian shepards!
Well, what could I say? the man had a point. Hmm..although, I'm fair haired, fair skinned, my mom and granny were blond with blue eyes..what does that say about me?
Ok, let us not wake sleeping dogs and let's move to the next important subject of this blog: Food! Serbian food is very meat-oriented but also quite delicious. We went to a fine restaurant at Kale Megdan, where you had a beautiful view over the Danube river, There were 3 gorgeous looking ladies playing classical music. I had a beef soup, which was awesome and a steak. Traditional serbian food includes specialties such as cevapcici or pecenje etc.
The food itself is pretty close to what we eat in Turkey, even the names are similar; however, without the pork stuff of course.
(me looking bored at the exhibition!!)
So, as far as sightseeing goes, not much to see in Belgrade but I have been told that the night-life is one of the best in Europe and that the people know how to party. Everybody was friendly and I did not experience anything bad about this place. Most of them spoke good English. I'd say it's worth a visit!
I have to say, I stayed the whole week in Belgrade and it was like this every single day. I had a room at hotel Life Design, which is in the heart of the city. It is a nice hotel with nicely-decorated, clean rooms. Very recommendable. Right next door was a strip club but unfortunately I didn't go in since I heard only bad stories about such places where they rip you off prettttty gooooood!! But judging from the girls that you see on the streets you can say that serbian girls are indeed really pretty.
Anyways, back to the subject: Flood of the century.
Each time we left the hotel me and my colleague got soaking wet. Nice thing about the hotel was that it had a spa area where guests of the hotel could enjoy different varieties of sauna and a jakuzzi pool.
But boy the weather was depressing. Belgrade is boring as far as sightseeing goes. They have a nice castle and were heavily influenced by the Ottoman. Turks left their mark everywhere. One guy made a joke about it. He told me:
-hey once we were all blond and blue eyed like the Slovenians but after the Turks fucking our nannies for 400 years..look at us..we look like Anatolian shepards!
Well, what could I say? the man had a point. Hmm..although, I'm fair haired, fair skinned, my mom and granny were blond with blue eyes..what does that say about me?
Ok, let us not wake sleeping dogs and let's move to the next important subject of this blog: Food! Serbian food is very meat-oriented but also quite delicious. We went to a fine restaurant at Kale Megdan, where you had a beautiful view over the Danube river, There were 3 gorgeous looking ladies playing classical music. I had a beef soup, which was awesome and a steak. Traditional serbian food includes specialties such as cevapcici or pecenje etc.
The food itself is pretty close to what we eat in Turkey, even the names are similar; however, without the pork stuff of course.
(me looking bored at the exhibition!!)
So, as far as sightseeing goes, not much to see in Belgrade but I have been told that the night-life is one of the best in Europe and that the people know how to party. Everybody was friendly and I did not experience anything bad about this place. Most of them spoke good English. I'd say it's worth a visit!
