I found myself in a slightly odd position eighteen months ago: applying for a job in a city I’d never been to, in a country I knew little about and in a region that didn’t have the best reputation back home. Mention Serbia in the UK and you might get some people asking....
Belgrade. For a Western-raised mind like mine this name for many years evoked pictures of war and bombs, of aggression and dictatorship. And so when, in 2006, I first went to Belgrade, that grey and grim epitome of all things negative, I was anxious to see, hear and feel what it was....
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Around 50 miles north of the capital city of Serbia, Belgrade, on the slopes of the Fruska Gora National Park and on the right bank of the Danube River, is one of Serbia’s most important spiritual and cultural towns, Sremski Karlovci. Since 1713, this place has been the seat of....
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With more than half a million visitors every year, Belgrade Beer Fest is among the biggest (if not the biggest) beer festival in South Eastern Europe that traditionally takes place every year in late August. During it’s 8 years long history as a free-entrance event, around....
