Monday Morning August 22
We are on our way to Montenegro. We had a delightful stay in Belgrade with Maya and her friends and family. During the past few days we did a lot of sightseeing in Belgrade. We went to the Nikola Tesla museum (Tesla was the genius who invented alternating current and the electric motor (amongst many other things), the Museum of Yugoslavian History, and we took a half day cruise on the Sava river, which joins the Danube at Belgrade. We had a lot of small adventures too, in the restaurants and plazas and municipal systems of Belgrade. So far, this has been a wonderful adventure.
Belgrade reminds Linda very much of Sao Paulo, Brazil when she lived there in the 1950's - the red tile roofs, houses and buildings made of brick and concrete, wooden shutters on the windows walls or fences around properties, wrought iron gates, cobblestone streets, narrow sidewalks with house doors opening right onto the sidewalks, old architecture with statues and elaborate decorated masonry, bright painted masonry, old buildings with peeling masonry next to modern steel & glass, abandoned half finished structures, old rundown next to the newer well-kept, many parks, tree lined streets and boulevards, older houses in the country made of sticks and mud. Even the language sometimes sounds like Portuguese, though some words can be foolers. Bel, belle, beau all mean "white" not "pretty". Belgrade actually means white city as the concrete buildings used to all be white. Now they have aged to gray. The beautiful women and the hot weather are more like Rio. It is surprising that a city at the same latitude as Bangor, Maine should feel tropical with sun that burns and heat that makes you soaking wet in an hour (though the humidity is not the suffocating type of North Carolina).
Now we are off to Montenegro, to visit with Nikola, Adriana, and their son Karlo. We will be on the Adriatic coast for a week, and then in the capital, Podgorica, for a week. We'll post again when we have the time and energy.
Our last group of photos of Belgrade are in:
https://picasaweb.google.com/104998323846009190297/201108BelgradeIII
We are on our way to Montenegro. We had a delightful stay in Belgrade with Maya and her friends and family. During the past few days we did a lot of sightseeing in Belgrade. We went to the Nikola Tesla museum (Tesla was the genius who invented alternating current and the electric motor (amongst many other things), the Museum of Yugoslavian History, and we took a half day cruise on the Sava river, which joins the Danube at Belgrade. We had a lot of small adventures too, in the restaurants and plazas and municipal systems of Belgrade. So far, this has been a wonderful adventure.
Belgrade reminds Linda very much of Sao Paulo, Brazil when she lived there in the 1950's - the red tile roofs, houses and buildings made of brick and concrete, wooden shutters on the windows walls or fences around properties, wrought iron gates, cobblestone streets, narrow sidewalks with house doors opening right onto the sidewalks, old architecture with statues and elaborate decorated masonry, bright painted masonry, old buildings with peeling masonry next to modern steel & glass, abandoned half finished structures, old rundown next to the newer well-kept, many parks, tree lined streets and boulevards, older houses in the country made of sticks and mud. Even the language sometimes sounds like Portuguese, though some words can be foolers. Bel, belle, beau all mean "white" not "pretty". Belgrade actually means white city as the concrete buildings used to all be white. Now they have aged to gray. The beautiful women and the hot weather are more like Rio. It is surprising that a city at the same latitude as Bangor, Maine should feel tropical with sun that burns and heat that makes you soaking wet in an hour (though the humidity is not the suffocating type of North Carolina).
Now we are off to Montenegro, to visit with Nikola, Adriana, and their son Karlo. We will be on the Adriatic coast for a week, and then in the capital, Podgorica, for a week. We'll post again when we have the time and energy.
Our last group of photos of Belgrade are in:
https://picasaweb.google.com/104998323846009190297/201108BelgradeIII
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