We are now on our second-to-last big trip of our stay here, making the drive to Belgrade more or less without incident. After crossing the border into Serbia, we both commented that a year ago we likely couldn't have identified Serbia on a map of the Balkans, and here we were driving a beat-up station wagon across its countyside. At the same time, we also found that we are not so far removed here that we have escaped the influence of Pixar...Buzz Lightyear has made his presence known (and therefore so has Sy).
This is going to be a very interesting week. Our apartment is a half a block from the Saint Sava Cathedral, which is one of the largest Orthodox cathedrals in the world, and within a ten-minute walk from many of the historical sites in Belgrade (the fact that the bathroom has already flooded on us is but a minor setback). More importantly, a friend of a friend, Mirko, has volunteered to be our tour guide for the next couple of days. Talk about hospitality...he already came over this evening and spent three hours chatting with us like he had known us forever.
We're not sure how much we'll get to blog this week, but we will certainly have a few pictures and stories to share when our trip is through.
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