Today I was going to be daring and try to venture to the southern Serbian town of Novi Pazar. This town has always fascinated me since I fist started reading about the region due to its entrenched Turkish culture.As the Ottomans began to lose Montenegro to the west and Serbia to the east, Novi Pazar was part of a land bridge linking Kosovo in the south to Bosnia in the north thus maintaining a geographic bloc remaining under Turkish Ottoman control. This land bri...

It was now early afternoon and I needed some food. Everywhere they are selling grilled meat sandwiches. I had the same problem in Bosnia and my stomach cant handle this everyday. I ended up getting really sick for a few days during that Bosnia trip. This seems to be the only food you can buy.All the pizza has ham on it as do most sandwiches. Eventually I found a tuna sandwich in footlong baked flatbread for 140D ($1.70). Now I tried to find the Archaeological Mus...

From Skull Tower next I could take the line 3 bus which would pass back thru downtown, north past the river and fortress, past the bus station, to the Logor Concentration CampI’d always avoided concentration camps before. Its one thing to know what happened but I don’t think I needed to see it for myself. Today I had lots of time and it was easy to get toThis time on the bus she only charged me 50D ($.60 cents) even though I was going further then whe...

The hotel room was really comfy and warm so I didn’t get to leave till 11am. Oddly the internet was working fine in the morning after all the problems the previous evening. The temperature had also warmed up from yesterday and it wasn’t as chilly.Before leaving the cleaner was cleaning a suite room which had a terrace overlooking the pedestrian street. This was the true penthouse suite, it had a living room, dining table, and bedroom with its own fire...

Today I am heading to the southern city of Nis. While Novi Sad was Serbia's second city north of Belgrade, Nis is Serbia's third city just over 2 hours drive to the south. Nis (pronounced 'neesh')has a long history and has existed from Roman times.If you look at a road map Nis is on a straight line going thru Bulgaria and Sofia to Istanbul. From Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman times it was an important crossroad as the road from Istanbul branches from here north to...