Second week of August is that splendid time of the year when both the Sava and the Danube get a bundle of new urinary tributaries coming from the same source in Belgrade’s Ušće (as the grounds around it literally soak in it). It is also the time when it’s absolutely impossible not to run into the traffic police in any of the streets surrounding Branko’s Bridge. On the 13th August, the now traditional five day idolatry to the only alcoholic drink regarded as alimentary article, known as Belgrade Beer Fest, will take place for the twelfth consecutive time in Belgrade. The…
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NEW BELGRADE APARTMENTS. The mere notion would have been considered completely absurd twenty years ago. However, the turbulent history of Belgrade has managed to jumble far bigger surprises in the aforementioned period, so the appearance of vacation rentals in New Belgrade is actually a pleasant one. In the past two decades New Belgrade has gone a long way from being a cold gray social-realist residenditial commieblock zone to the contemporary lively business, trading and administrative hub of the capital. Truth be told, there are still certain parts of it that solemnly wear the former repulsivness, masked by massive billboards or…