andy townend captures the life and soul of belgrade, serbia
Summer left, the rain poured down, autumn loomed. And err....then summer exploded back onto belgradestreets. Where else does the temperature bounce around between 11C and 33C in the space of a few days. Anyone remember the Danube freezing when we hit -25C and then only four weeks later it was t-shirts on for 24C? Where … Continue reading manjež defies the fall
September 2012, marked one year of belgradestreets. This post is a thank you to those good people at Komshe who have recently published my book, belgradestreets, which features images taken from this blog. I would particularly like to thank Branko Andrić, the Managing Director of Komshe d.o.o. for backing the idea, and taking the book … Continue reading sometimes dreams come true
No day on belgradestreets is ever the same as another. Never boring. There is always something to catch the eye. Sport plays a great part in the life of those on belgradestreets. Most of my posts have some element of planning, however rudimentary. This post was prompted by a blocked road and a growing sense … Continue reading 15 beogradska rolerijada
A couple of weeks ago I dropped my gorgeous (and uninsured...) Nikon D700 just a few centimetres on to a stone floor. The sound of breaking glass was not great. My heart missed a beat or two. Thanks to the great people at Refot here in Belgrade, I was distinctly relieved (classic British understatement perhaps...) … Continue reading studentski trg
Building on two previous posts, "faces on the street" and "summer's almost gone". Each image spoke to me about transition. From summer to autumn. From youth to old age. From ancient to modern. From happiness to anguish. Life, in all its complexity. On belgradestreets.
This coming week, Wednesday, 5 September 2012, will mark one year of belgradestreets. It will also see the arrival of a book featuring images of the blog published by my good friends at Komshe. Details of where the book can be purchased will be available soon. For me, it will be a wonderful moment to … Continue reading one hundred posts, one book…
Four weeks ago, I set off on a road trip across Europe. The night before I left, I enjoyed one of my favourite meals, mešano meso, šopska salata and a chilled local beer (or was it two?). I chose to sit at one of the tables in the street outside the ? kafana, also one … Continue reading sime markovića
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…
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
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