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February 24, 2012 · 17:59

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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February 24, 2012 · 12:32

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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February 23, 2012 · 21:58

war ruins

in many places in the Balkans war damage is getting hard to find… not true in eastern Bosnia

Srebrenica visit

in addition to a good meeting with some women who lead a agriculture co-op, I accomplished several other goals, one was this pic…

a lone cross among thousands of Muslim graves

This is the grave of a catholic who was killed in the massacre, he was buried in 2010 (I think… Laci can you verify in comments?).

Here is what I saw/heard out my hotel window when I check in this afternoon…

All I hear now is Balkan music with a disco beat from some nearby building… ahhhhh traveling…

BUT the early morning ride through the slow covered Bosnian mountains was amazing (that is ice on the INSIDE of the bus window – just in case you were wondering)…