Memories of War

It’s been 10 years since the NATO bombings of Belgrade, capital of Serbia (also Yugoslavia back then) and there are still a few buildings in the city centre that were left untouched to remind people of the horror of war. One of them is the Federal Police building that was hit during the night between [...]

The City of Clouds

THE coincidence

The first time I went to Bratislava was a year ago to visit my actual girlfriend, who lives there, and with whom we broke up a few hours after my arrival, so there wasn’t a second time until a long time. Then last weekend I travelled to Prague through the Slovak capital where the bus [...]

Breakfast of the Kings

Breakfast is usually included in the price of a hotel room you book and most of the times you have a good selection of food to choose from, so it’s a nice way to start the day while you’re on a holiday. Belgrade’s own Hotel Royal is a little bit different in this on many [...]

Travel plans

Due to reasons beyond my control this year appears to be the most difficult one of my life as far as finances. I don’t really want to get into details about the whys because that would lead me to an endless rant on my country and that’s not the purpose of this post. But no matter [...]

Budapest vs. Vienna

It’s a mystery to me how foreign people can actually like Budapest… especially those that have also been to Vienna. The two cities are not even in the same league. Surely, Budapest has beautiful architecture but all the buildings are dirty and in very bad shape. Most of them didn’t even get a proper painting [...]

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