andy townend captures the life and soul of belgrade, serbia
Most cities now offer an open bus tour of their key sites. Often an adapted red London bus. I've taken them myself, in San Francisco, Vienna... Yet, in my opinion, the best way to see a city is often to take a ride on public transport. Only two weeks ago, on the eve of the … Continue reading a tram ride around belgradestreets
September 5, 2011 was a special day for me. The image above, park bench, was the first that I tentatively uploaded to what I had decided, ambitiously I thought then, would be a blog called belgradestreets. As the blog has developed a life of its own my feelings for this wonderful city, and its people, … Continue reading belgradestreets book…
Sometimes, especially when the weather is hot, the Nikon stays at home and I rely on my iPhone, which indeed is exactly how this blog began. Each weekend, the instagram team set a photographic challenge. This weekend's challenge was #lowdownground. The goal to capture photographs from the lowest vantage point possible; low down on the … Continue reading #lowdownground
The Belgrade metro has been a dream since the 1950s. In 1995, the station below Vukov Spomenik opened. Whilst the metro remains an aspiration, the station is very real. And very impressive. Easy to miss, there are no signs at street level to alert you to the beauty that lies below. In an earlier post, … Continue reading vukov spomenik stanica
Fear. Most of us live our lives mercifully free from fear. Every now and then maybe we meet a situation that reminds us that the world is challenging, edgy, and sometimes not what we expect. In search of the only underground railway station on belgradestreets I picked, at random, one of the many stairways down … Continue reading what lies beneath
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić, famed for his reform of the Serbian language, is remembered by the work of sculptor, Đorđe Jovanović. Amusingly, as I was finalising the images for this post, I realised that I had somehow omitted to take a photo of the most prominent sculpture in the park. So, I ventured back out into … Continue reading vukov spomenik
Cara Dušana is, for the #2 tram, a little like the home straight on a race track. A good long stretch, tree-lined, without too many curves, a tram can build up a good head of steam. If only the track wasn't under repair. I admire the workers on the line this weekend, temperatures hovering around … Continue reading cara dušana
Architecture, graffiti and design are a signature of belgradestreets. Kralja Petra has all in abundance. And possibly the most interesting clock I have seen in a street for some time...
Kralja Petra is one of the most famous of belgradestreets. Running up from the Orthodox Cathedral, cutting across Knez Mihaila and then on down the hill into Dorćol. A street whose cobbled surface retains memories of times gone by. Full of shops, exclusive and otherwise. Restaurant, cafes and bars. The ? kafana sits across from … Continue reading kralja petra
From the steps that lead down from Kalemegdan to Pariska a small clearing can be spied in the woods of Košutnjak across the rooftops of the city. A few minutes drive from the city, the forest of Košutnjak is a breath of fresh air. Hidden away amongst the trees is Belgrade's very own ski slope, … Continue reading ski staza
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