Serbia

We arrived in Novi Sad, Serbia, during the night. After breakfast, we had our city tour. It is a better, newer city and we also got a chance to see the old part of the city that Einstein had enjoyed when he and his wife visited. Clearly, it is a very complicated place as there are "FIVE" official languages, which you see indicated on the sign of the local library:

   Not one of us travelers could read any of these languages!!!

It was unfortunately a very hot day, so we did not linger too long in the the garden or in the town center (which had a beautiful catholic church). See below:

  

There was an optional tour, which I did not go to, in the afternoon. Janice did go and visited a beekeeping museum and a 300-year-old wine cellar.

A few of us went to the castle we could see from the boat.It was a very hot climb and we saw just a few things:     

 

 

 After dinner, we had a wonderful dancing group who performed some folk music and dances.  They were really fun!

     

Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, was our next stop. We went to Sava Orthodox Cathedral first

  and had a blue group picture taken. (Blue was the color for our bus contingent.)

This was the only group picture we had taken. Our Program Director, Irina, is in front.

  A side view with a garden included

  Another side of the Cathedral which is the largest Orthodox cathedral in the world

 

We went to the Kalemegdan Fortress too: 

  

       Front of the statue (taken later on my bicycle ride)

We also went to see the Tito Memorial. Clearly they still appreciate him! These were taken there:

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  a Yugo!

 

We were given three hours for a bycicle ride along the Danube Pathway:

I rented a pretty nice bike:

But the path was found to be blocked at both ends by construction, so we did not go very far at all - maybe just six miles!

 

 

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