Serbia is a strange mix of everything. They're not greatly liked by their surrounding countries since the break up of Yugoslavia, but have the best food you could want, women that are so attractive men come from overseas just to see them, and the cheapest food in Europe - one dinar, the Serbian currency, is worth 1 Eurocent. Vicki and I checked into an amazingly good hostel in Belgrade, called Green studio. 5 minutes walk from the bus station, it has everything... free laundry, a free welcome beer, the nicest staff anywhere, and comfy beds. I have the nastiest flu, so Vicki went out while I stayed at the hostel and got an early night.
The next day, we went out to see the Nikola Tesla museum. I was excited to see it, as I knew he had invented a bunch of cool stuff, not least the Tesla Coil. On the way, Vicki got a coffee and I got an ice coffee at a groovy looking cafe. However, it turned out to be iced glass, as the barrista had (accidentally, I hope!) put glass in the blender with the drink. I only realised this when I got to the bottom of the drink, but I'm sure it wasn't good for my already sore throat. Hopefully I didn't ingest any, and the glass I found at the bottom of the glass was all of it! Even worse, it turned out to be an ice chocolate instead of an ice coffee!
The Nikola Tesla museum was so cool. Despite not having a gigantic tesla coil that made lightning jump 10 metres (my hopes were high!), they had various smaller coils, and one that was powerful enough to light flourescent rods mid-air as we held them. After holding rods, and letting lightning jump to our fingers, and all the fun things you can do with Tesla coils, as well as a healthy induction (get it?) into the many electrical innovations of Nikola Tesla, we left, headed for the ruined Roman fortress on the other side of town. It provided a good viewpoint over the city, and we had a peek over the walls before heading to Princess Llubjana's house. Unfortunately, it was closed, but we found multiple cocktail bars on the way that waylaid us so by the time we reached the final tourist destination, we weren't too bothered that it wasn't open.
We wanted to see a small town in Serbia as well, so went to Novi Sad - not exactly small, as it's the second biggest town in Serbia, but still. The main shopping street was lovely - all the towns in Serbia have such nice big old buildings.
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