Serbia

On Friday I left raining Zagreb, to find a also raining Belgrade (for those who are interested to know in Serbian its called Beograd, which means white city).

In the first night we went clubbing near the river, a very cool place and on Saturday afternoon we did some sight seeing. I had the best guide tours, Alex and her brother, Velimir.

From what I’ve seen, in the last five years Belgrade is making many efforts to overcome the destruction and abandoned of its heritage during the last decades. It is possible to find a lot of influences from Turkish, a little bit of Hungarian and Austrian, and also still some from bombing. It’s a different city and I would characterize it as a city that is alive, you can find so many people in its large streets, cultural events and the traffic is more chaotic and crazy than Zagreb.

And I also heard that Serbian people are a bit crazy, and I understood what those people meant…

I could find this sign in the fortress of the city, Kalemegdan, and I thought it meant "Please, don’t step in the grass". It actually means that "This is the invisible tree that can read your mind" in Cyrillic.

In that night we had fun at home with the Sangria that I’ve made and in the next day we were ready for more sightseeing. So we went to Zemun, which is in the other side of the river where it was possible to find a beautiful view over the Danube river and Belgrade.

In this last day in Belgrade all people that are going to represent AIESEC Croatia in the International Congress 2007 in Turkey (where I am going next) arrived, therefore we start preparation. I had the opportunity to visit the MC office of AIESEC Serbia and also the LC of Mihajlo (for those who know him, will understand how funny that has for me). To finish big we went just to relax in a cool coffee bar, enjoy Alex’s mother cooking’s and to buy very cheap cigarettes for some Portuguese people that requested heheh.

I will see you in turkey :)