Category: Serbia

We were in Belgrade, a place we had gone to great lengths to avoid for weeks but had now dived into – determined see everything Serbia had to offer whether we liked it or not! Our first day had surprised us, with the wealthy district of Dedinje being rather quiet and green. We assumed that…

Gradac Monastery was beautiful. Not just because it was a lovely old building with a long and intriguing history, but also because it was 19 degrees with blue skies and a warm sun shining down on us But we couldn’t stay forever so eventually we dragged ourselves off our bench and back to BigMog. We…

We were determined to be hopeful – the first buds had started to appear on the ground and, whilst it had snowed yet again, it was thawing quickly and the sun was feeling distinctly warmer. We packed up after our peaceful night by the Roman palace and headed off to Lazar’s Cave. But when we…

Subotica Lake was pretty enough but not exactly the wilderness and the weather was not on our side. So after a quick walk around we headed off to the village of Novo Milosevo where there was a tractor museum. It seemed unusual to have a museum dedicated to tractors so we had to go and…

Fifteen monasteries into our sixteen monastery marathon and I had been struck down by some bug that had me unable to get out of bed and barely able to keep water down. We were parked outside the peaceful Grgeteg monastery and all I did for about 36 hours was sleep. But by 6am the next…

We had crossed the border into Serbia and our excitement at being in a new country shook off the gloom that had descended on us from the merciless weather and endless mechanical problems. We were not sure what we would find here. On the one hand, Serbia was the aggressor in the 1990s war and…