Balkan Travels

(these were meant to go with the first part of my last post) also, I think I forgot to mention that on our walk home from dinner one evening I saw this young woman walking with an awkward gait, holding her cane. I wanted to be encouraging so when we passed her I said, bravo,…

Wednesday we ate breakfast, hung out at our place, then set off for a walk at around 11. Milesa and Zoran had things to do at the village and said we could meet in the evening for coffee, which was fine with us. While we love engaging with people and are grateful for hospitality, we…

I’m sitting this misty morning on the large covered terrace at Apartman Jovanović where we have stayed three times before. It might be my favorite place of any apartment we have rented on our trips. It is a spacious 2 bedroom apartment above our host’s first floor home. Beds are decent, bathroom has a curtain…

Jim cooked breakfast, as usual. We walked outside to the end of our building to the market and bought a bottle of wine to take to lunch in the village where our teacher, Dragana, had invited us for lunch at her grandma’s. We never know what wine is good.  We drove SE from Belgrade for…

Saturday. I only slept 3 hours. Nothing new. I cope ok when i have a few nights of only 6 hours in a row, but when I dip below 5 after numerous nights of only 6 i don’t feel good and don’t handle stress as well.  But I enjoyed a slow morning in the apartment…

We had no problem getting to Belgrade until we got to our building. Even though our host had given specific instructions, they weren’t good enough. We knew we were close but did not see anywhere to stop the car, nor did we see any signage for the building. We drove around the big block on…

A week has passed since we were in Vrdnik. Here is a summary of  our few days there… Wednesday. After breakfast on the terrace (Jim walked to the bakery to get us goodies to go with our eggs and veggies), we decided to take a walk up the hill behind our place that we had…

I’m sitting on the covered porch at Oaza Mira (peaceful oasis). 8:30 am, not hot yet but it’s expected to reach 95. Rooster is crowing, another sound that makes me happy when we travel here, reminding me there are still people who know how to grow and raise their own food. Morning sun is lighting…

I did not sleep much after the wedding and so was too tired Monday to go for a long walk as we had hoped to do. We had breakfast on the balcony again (Jim cooked, as always) and neighbor Dula saw us and asked us to come over for coffee which we did after breakfast,…

Sunday morning while eating breakfast on the porch our neighbor, Deda (grandpa) Dula, walked over to the part of his yard closest to us and greeted us again as he had done a couple days earlier. He again asked if we might want to come over for coffee. We said yes, but we could not…