Beograd

Until yesterday I was in Beograd/Belgrade (capital of Serbia). Belgrade has a variety of building styles, some old building (don't ask me which style, but "European looking") and some newer ones ("socialist looking"). And there is a beautiful, well kept fortress that I plan to post some photos of when i go back next week...

Something else I plan to photograph is some of the bombed out streets. The buildings are still standing there with big holes or walls missing. In one of the office buildings I saw, half of the space was in use while the other half was torn to pieces. It is a depressing sight.

In Belgrade the recent war is present not only physically in the damaged city space, but also in the way people talk. A seemingly neutral question about whether Podgorica has ever been bombed, caused uneasy glances. Likewise, the issue of Montenegro's independence or the reconstruction (or construction?) of the Montenegric church is laden with so many feelings and seems to be put into words only after analysis of the people present and with many precautions.