Daily Archives: February 24, 2012

Belgrade

…by the time the bus arrived and I found the hotel, it was a bit past four, I hurried out knowing I was losing the sun… The first thing I saw was this unidentified government (?) building…

… then up the street I saw this… it must have been NATO destruction from ’99…

THEN, I got to my first destination, the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral…

… inside, they are remodeling or something… I pondered this image of Jesus on the cross… if you ever wonder what the extra crosses are on an Orthodox cross, you can figure out why in this image…

… as I left, I was amazed by this sunset…

… then I got a look at a mass in a nearby chapel…

… I grabbed a ride on a tram to the main square…

… after the main square, I explored…

until I “GPT”ed my way back to the hotel

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bus to Belgrade

after a quiet morning with the Lord, I had coffee with my contact in Srebrenica and we headed for the bus…

I was loaded up and ready to head to the capital of Serbia, we pulled away five minutes early! at 10:55…

We drove by the memorial cemetery on the way out…

it took us 45 minutes to cross the border from Bosnia to Bratunac, Serbia and arrive at a bus station where the ticket man rushed me onto another bus which backed out right after I got on and we were on our way… we followed the Drina river for a couple of hours …

it was a long ride

the mountains have faded into the distance as we are headed northwest

no mountains, its just a plain

I spotted a bridge over the Sava River

finally arrived in Belgrade…

now, where’s the hotel?

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