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Enjoy scouting out Belgrade with Bill Smale adventures

Frankly, Belgrade was a little bit of a disappointment. I was expecting a much more interesting atmosphere with more old town feel. Plan your trip in advance so you get the more interesting sites all at once.

Tesla's suit
The absolute one thing the servers are proud of is Nikolai Tesla. There is a museum of his innovations and his possessions which I highly recommend you visit because they do some demonstrations showing some of the great things he envisioned and accomplished.
The label
An alien land
The view from the airplane from Sarajevo to Belgrade looks almost like an alien land
Hotel view
My view from the hotel
Holiday celebrations
Pre-Christmas celebration assembly in the Square
A Christmas concert
A big concert celebrating a few days before the orthodox Christmas which occurs on January 7
Guinness is everywhere
I was happy to find a Guinness
Scouting out granny Smith
It was interesting to see granny Smith apples
The street in Belgrade
The typical Street
Old Vespa
An old Vespa
Selling oak leaves
Selling oak leaves in bundles which are burned on Christmas day
A political commentary in Belgrade
A political commentary relating to the 1990s war
Local market
The local open market is much bigger than what you see here. It extends all the way back down this walkway and then in both directions to the left and right. They sell almost everything in this general area.
Enjoy scouting out the Vegetable market
The vegetable area of the market
The nut shop
Nuts and other items
An observance
This was some kind of observance in the middle of the intersection which stopped the traffic, people facing One Direction for at least 15 minutes and waiting for a loud horn to end the grouping. It was a gathering I wish I had asked someone about. It was very well organized
Enjoying the absent cars at the Chinese dealership
The sign is for a Chinese automobile manufacture but they weren’t selling automobiles here just parts
An empty entertainment Square
this has the name of what I understood to be the old town area but there was nothing going on. This was just an entertainment Square that was not being used
Free transport needs repair
The city transportation is all free but a lot of the transporters are in need of repair as you can see
麻婆豆腐
Marble tofu (麻婆豆腐) at the nearby Chinese restaurant. It is completely Chinese flavor and way too much SANSHOU (山椒)
Geared to Chinese touristS
You can see this restaurant is geared towards Chinese tourists. In the two days I visited here I was the only non-Chinese and I doubt the owners speak even Serbian, definitely no English. Customers needed to translate some things for me.
Interesting little car at the café
I couldn’t see the make of the car but it looks a little bit too interesting to be aYugo
An old Renault
An old Renault
Electric bike
An electric bike
Old trams
The free trams are a little old
Garbage truck in Belgrade
That’s a big garbage truck
Tesla's things
Tesla’s personal things
Tesla's stationary
His stationary
Tesla's hat
His hat
The label inside Tesla's hat
This is a label inside the hat. It seems he bought it from the hotel shop. He probably lived there for a while.
father's honorary certificate
Tesla’s father’s honorary certificate from the emperor of the Austro-Hungarian empire
Windows presentation
You can see what they use to do the presentation which was actually very good and very interesting. It was well worth the fee which was nominal
Transformer demonstration
A demonstration of the transformer Tesla invented
Wireless electricity demonstration
Demonstrating wireless electricity
Tesla's mother's creation
Hand created by Tesla’s mother
Label
Old town Street
Seemingly the only Street which comprises the “old town”