I arrived in Belgrad around midnight,
running into the fog with the minibus.
Arrived at Isidora's place, the girl that hosted me, I put my stuff in th room and in 30 minutes I met a group of participants that was already there in the city, talking with them until 4am.
Arrived at Isidora's place, the girl that hosted me, I put my stuff in th room and in 30 minutes I met a group of participants that was already there in the city, talking with them until 4am.
The event started the 29th,
after I spent a day to reach Belgrade.
A lot of activities, maybe not organized at the best, but a funny experience.
It was the first New Year outside Sardinia.
Between the different activities during the event, we've been in Nikola Tesla museum, a little museum but enough interesting.
Escape Room, a really great activity to do, but not well organized.
European night, the first for me with double nationality and without spanish people. I made the romanian and italian stands.
The free walking tour, activity outside aegee contest, but included by organization.
The NYE was in a disco, kind of underground, with tables on the ground floor and a little prive upstairs for us.
I woke up and now it's everything covered by snow. It's the 3rd of jenuart and the event finished yesteday.
A nice event, but organization and places were not the best in my opinion.
Obviously I had everything I wanted, understand the cultural contest and value the differences with Romania.
The first thing I saw was that in any place is possible to change Lei in Dinari, so everyone that pass from Romania to Serbia, need euros.
The change is 120 Dinari for 1 € and the level of medium life is extremely cheap, maybe the cheapest in balkans.
A beer for example costs, in a pub, from 140 to 190 dinari for a 0.5L ( we talked of 2€ more or less).
A lot of activities, maybe not organized at the best, but a funny experience.
It was the first New Year outside Sardinia.
Between the different activities during the event, we've been in Nikola Tesla museum, a little museum but enough interesting.
Escape Room, a really great activity to do, but not well organized.
European night, the first for me with double nationality and without spanish people. I made the romanian and italian stands.
The free walking tour, activity outside aegee contest, but included by organization.
The NYE was in a disco, kind of underground, with tables on the ground floor and a little prive upstairs for us.
I woke up and now it's everything covered by snow. It's the 3rd of jenuart and the event finished yesteday.
A nice event, but organization and places were not the best in my opinion.
Obviously I had everything I wanted, understand the cultural contest and value the differences with Romania.
The first thing I saw was that in any place is possible to change Lei in Dinari, so everyone that pass from Romania to Serbia, need euros.
The change is 120 Dinari for 1 € and the level of medium life is extremely cheap, maybe the cheapest in balkans.
A beer for example costs, in a pub, from 140 to 190 dinari for a 0.5L ( we talked of 2€ more or less).
The serbian language use two alphabets, the latin one and the cirillic. The serbian, having only some differenxes, is similar to croatian, makedonian, slovenian and so on, cause before all these countries were Jugoslavia.
Furthermore, talking with some organizers, they told me that for them is easy to understand and learn russian, cause is very similar. You can have the same rapport with Romanian and Italian.
The city present modern and old characteristics. There for example are present a lot of destoied houses, bombed during the war and never completely rebuilt.
In Belgrade, over the city centre and classica christmas market, is possible to visit a lot of things as the old park, where you can see the “Statue of the Winner” and the two rivers that flow in one, the Danube.
To go out in Belgrade, the tipical thing is “kafana”. This type of restaurant/pub is made for eat, drink and dance. At the beginning, these kind of places, was the meeting point, following the local stories, of the mafia. It's here that in the most part of the Kafanas, that follow the italian theme, you can find tablecloths red and white, tipical stereotype of an old italian restaurant.
The 4th in the morning, after informed me about how to reach Macedonia, I cooked a fast lunch in the hostel and I went to take the bus with one of the organizers, Vasil.
Arrived in the station, I bought the ticket and troubles started, as the arriving in Serbia.
The driver, didn't want me to enter cause I was the only foreigner there and he gave the priority to the local citizen.
Helped by the guards, after 35 minutes, I went inside the bus and we started the trip.
The travel was aroung 8 hours, with 6 extimated. Luckily, Monika, one of the organizers from Skopje, was in my same bus and we spent the time to talk.
