The Danube Gorge The gorges of the Danube valley started, and we passed Roman ruins riverside. There were few towns in this region, with large distances which separated them. Very few, almost nonexistent small villages were between. You blinked, and the village was gone. We were happy. The weather was beautiful – it was our […]

East of Belgrade: On the routes of eastern Serbia, two things seemed to be omnipresent: dead dogs and trash. Even if you tried to look away from the dogs, you couldn’t avoid the trash that covered the landscape. Trash in the towns, trash in the streams and rivers, trash along the riverbanks, trash in the […]

Leaving Belgrade: We left Belgrade in a warm Spring breeze – or, rather, the strongest wind we’d had thus far. Tiring, oh so tiring. Almost pushed us backwards. But Spring is definitely here. Oh, happy life! Sunshine. We biked 50 km. to the small town of Kovin with a group of bikers from a cycling […]

Serbs talk about Serbia: Our first real conversation about Serbia was with Ivan. We didn’t talk about it much in Backa Palanka, but you could tell that it was there under the surface. Miodrag’s mother and grandmother were afraid of the “bad people

Our life in Belgrade: When I came back from Paris, I found out that Ivan had been showing Stephane around town. As he played in different bands, all of his friends were musicians and played in bars and clubs in the city. He had introduced Stephane to his friends and to the nightlife of Belgrade. […]