More Random Thoughts on Beograd

Belgrade isn't really a tourist town. I had to search to find places that sold postcards, and only found them at the Zoo and the Aviation Musuem. That museum was quite nice - all the other F-16's and F-117's i've seen have been intact, not shot down. The museum has much more than the shot down planes and missiles, there are also airplanes dating from the beginnings of aviation, WWI, WWII, and modern plans. Most are even in quite good condition.

Still, it is good to see the shot down planes and missiles, then come back to the city and see the blown up buildings.

In the northern part of the city, on top a hill, is a large castle, the Kalmegdan, which is probably the most popular tourist attraction - it is the only thing a local could tell me to see when i asked about the city. It is quite a fair-sized castle with good views of the rest of the city. Inside there are some war machines from WWI and WWII - some small tanks and artillery. Part of the castle has been rennovated into a zoo, with the castle walls serving as parts of the walls for some animals, like the bears and tigers. Among the many birds they have caged are some snakes (python, boa, anaconda ("there's snakes out there this big??")), bears, wolves and dogs, like the German Shephard and Pit Bull. Those dogs didn't look too happy.

Beograd also has a nice cable-stayed bridge . I walked around for hours trying to get a nice shot of it and only got soaking wet and a half-decent photograph. I've spent a good deal of time walking around, partially because i've been lost, partially because i've let myself get lost, and all because i wanted to see what the cty was like.

Now i have to go catch a train to a city in Montenegro, from which i will hopefully be able to get a ferry across to Italy. I'm not yet too confident on how that will turn out.

Oh, in case you watch the news, those bombings took place about 150 miles away, and i don't plan on going close to there.