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...

The last thing I needed to explore in Belgrade was the Austrian outpost of Zemun. I planned on coming yesterday but the rain was so bad I had to put it off. Today the rain was finally breaking so I could do this as my last thingWhen the Turks occupied the fortress and the old town, the Austrians built this small outpost on the other side of the Sava river, each controlling their respective sides of the river. Today it is a suburb that has been absorbed into Belgr...

Today I had planned a visit to Novi Sad Serbia's northern town about 80km north of Belgrade. Novi Sad is the capital of the province of Vojvodinia. This was Austrian Hapsburg territory and was lumped into Yugoslavia when it was created at the end of WWI carving up Austrian and Ottoman territories into a new country of Yugoslavia which had never existed beforeHistorically Vojvodinia was part of Hungary and I don't know what the ethnic split is today between Serbs ...