The Serbian Wine Culture: The Land of Prokupac, Tamjanika and the Rare Muscat Crocant
Share Today’s blog post is inspired by my oldest brother. Nikola is a fine wine importer and distributor in the NY and NJ area. (Shameless advertising: see his company site here.) He was born in Belgrade in 1966 and raised mostly in Spain and Portugal, acquiring a love for fine cuisine and wine through our [...]
Blogs on Belgrade: City Info With a Personal Touch
Share Every now and then I like to venture out into the great big WWW and see what others are saying about Belgrade and Serbia. When I say “others” I mean locals, visitors, and ex-pats living here but I’m looking for personal experiences and opinions. First-hand, raw, down to earth stuff. Not a week goes [...]
Belgrade’s Sea of Trash
Share The beginning of the week will obviously be reserved for rants on this blog. While Belgrade does have a rich culture, amazing history and vibrant modern life, the city does have its innumerable flaws and I intend to at least mention every one. What one cannot help but notice in Belgrade is the trash. [...]
Francis Mackenzie: A Stubborn Scotsman Meets A Stubborn Belgrade
Share If there’s any such thing as a local ex-pat, then I’m it. My great-grandfather, a clergyman, first arrived in Belgrade in the late 19th century. My grandfather, his sixth surviving child, was born in the small house behind the Ružica Church in Kalemegdan Fortress in 1901. My mother, grandfather’s third child, was born in [...]
Belgrade Hotels and Hostels: From European Art Deco to 21st Century Party Town Basics
Share An interesting thing happened to me on the way to Retro(bel)grade tonight. There I was on Twitter, minding my own business (um, no, not really…), when an RT came along from a fellow Twitterer from Croatia, asking for assistance in finding lodging and other tips in Belgrade for his girlfriend. The girlfriend, Magdalena, had [...]
Film and Theatre in Serbia
Share Serbs are big on art. Yes, I’m reffering those “barbaric”, “ruthless”, “backward” heathen from the Balkans. They’re really big on art. I’m not saying that the average Serb can tell a Monet from a Manet (c’mon…) but they can certainly tell a Kubrick or Ridley Scott from a Michael Mann. We admire all forms [...]
