Like in a Discovery Channel documentary

Nara improvising, as we took Rodrigo and Fécu to their first walk around Beograd



(english translation)

"You can watch a rare kind of wild wolf from the stepes. It's name is Cannis Nefridius. Very dangerous when hungry and when the weather changes. During summer, they atrophy and make cocoons on the top of the trees. A very wild species, as you can see... Very unfriendly... With a tendency to intense sex activity. (Opa!)
They like to rub their arses in the snow in order to obtain a certain hygienization, as one of the most frequent causes of death among this species is the bacterium Nefridius Cannis Arsis, that attacks the entire digestive system, leading them to death by dehidratation.

The x-treme sport most practised in this country, Slow Street, is very popular amongs the city's drunks.

Right ahead, behind the red fence, you can see the biggest alcoholics-anonymous centre in the world. And the Barbie house is on your right.
(Why did I put so many clothes, fucking shit...)"

+ 6 days in Beograd :))))))))

10 graus e solzinho em Belgrado. Tem sido assim nos ultimos 6-7 dias. Sinto falta da neve, mas sol com friozinho de leve eh o que ha!
E consegui, depois de alguns instantes de tensao, remarcar minha volta a Alemanha e esticar uns diazinhos aqui em Belgrado: eu ia embora amanha, e agora soh me vou pra Alemanha dia 21. Uhuuuuuu :)))))))))))


10 degrees and sun in Belgrade. It's been like this for the past 6-7 days. I miss the snow, but sunny-cold days are just great too!
And, after several minutes of tension, I made it to postpone my coming back to Germany and stay a few days more here in Belgrade: I was gonna leave tomorrow, and now I'm only back to Germany on the 21st. Yay :)))))))))))

E a boa noticia? No final de junho/inicio de julho, tem mais Balkan Spedicija pra mim \o/

Quem vem comigo da proxima vez?

And the good news? By the end of june/early july, there's more Balkan Spedicija for me \o/

Who's coming with me next time?

Intermission III (Animated!)

Fequinho and I in Kalemegdan

Belgrade photo tour :)

Fotos da ultima semana, quando a Fecula e o Rodrigo chegaram aqui em Belgrado
Photos of the last week, when Fecula and Rodrigo arrived here in Belgrade

Nossa primeira caminhada pela cidade com a Fecula e o Rodrigo, assim que eles chegaram. Ao fundo voces (quase) podem ver a cupula de St. Sava, coberta de neve

Our first walk around town with Fecula and Rodrigo, when they arrived. On the background you can (almost) see the dome of St. Sava, covered in snow

Karadjordjev Park, que fica logo ao lado da St. Sava
Karadjordjev Park, right beside St. Sava

St. Sava, finalmente!
St. Sava, finally!

Ok, voces jah conhecem essa, mas como eu gosto muito, lah vai denovo. Estavamos brincando no parquinho, em frente a St. Sava :)

Ok, you've probably already seen this one, but as I like it a lot, here it is again. We were playing in the park, right before St. Sava :)

Lah vamos nos, entrando em St. Sava. Nao sei se a foto faz jus ao tamanho desse templo "ao vivo"... Parece ateh pequeno olhando agora, comparando com a visao dele ao vivo.
There we go, getting into St. Sava. I don't know if the photo make justice to the "real" size of this temple... It looks kinda small in the picture, if compared to it's "live" view.

Interior de St. Sava - nao sei se voces sabem, mas St. Sava - que comecou a ser contruida no iniciozinho do seculo XX - nunca chegou nem perto de ser terminada. Devido as guerras mundiais e, mais tarde, ao regime de Tito, sua construcao foi interrompida por decadas e decadas. Visitando o templo durante o dia, a gente pode ver os artesaos trabalhando non-stop nas esculturas de pedra...
Inside St. Sava - I don't know if you know it, but St. Sava - that started being built in the early 20th century - was never even close to be finished. Due to the world wars and, later, to Tito's regime, it's construction was interrupted for decades and decades. If you visit the temple during the day, you can see people working non-stop on the stone sculptures...

Essa eh a capela que fica ao lado de St. Sava. Eh pequenininha, mas estah completamente terminada ha tempos jah. E as iluminuras em estilo bizantino foram feitas por artesaos russos - nao tem 1 pedacinho de parede ou teto que nao seja pintado :)

Mais pinturas no interior da capela...

Fequinho encoxando o monumento da Praca da Republika, hahahaha
Ps.: esse monumento, essa praca em geral, eh o ponto de encontro mor de Belgrado.
Fequinho "humping" the monument at the Republik Square, hahahaha
Ps.: this monument, the whole square, is the_meeting_point in Belgrade.

A ciganada tocando na rua. Depois vou dar upload no video que fizemos disso e postar aqui - foram os piores metais que jah vi ciganos tocando por aqui, hahahaha
A bunch of gypsies playing on the street. Later I'll upload a video I recorded on that day and post it here - those were the worse played metals I've ever heard around here, hahahaha

Knez Mihailova, uma das ruas mais famosas de Belgrado :)
Knez Mihailova, one of the most famous streets in Belgrade :)

Chegando em Kalemegdan
Getting to Kalemegdan

Kalemegdan

Peculinho :)

Voces nao tem ideia de como eu sempre quis ver esse lugar, e especialmente assim, forrado de neve. Exatamente como na foto do topo desse blog :)))))
You have no idea of how much I always wanted to see this place, and specially like this, covered in snow. Just like in the picture on the header of this blog :)))))

Ahh, eu e o meu fraco por cidades com rios...
Ohh, me and my weekness for cities with rivers...

No parquinho
In the kid's park

Encoxando em Kalemegdan
Humping in Kalemegdan

"Te porro!"

Haha, estamos parecendo criancinhas nessa foto
Haha, we look like such kids in this photo

Papai Noel marrentao na sessao de bebidas do mercado. Soh em Belgrado...
Tough Santa Klaus in the drink section of the market. Only in Belgrade...

...

Neve!
Snow!

Eu e Fecu, de madrugada, abobadas na neve. Chorar de rir abaixo de zero nao eh legal nao. O rosto fica congelado, hahaha
Me and Fecu, laaaate at night, being silly in the snow. Laughing til you cry when it's below zero it's not cool. Your face gets freezing, hahaha

E o boneco de neve mais hediondo de todos os tempos: "Coco Noel"
And the most hideous snow man of all times: "Coco Noel" (something like "Crappy Klaus", in portuguese)
Конец!

Intermission II

Snow :)

Photos!!

Some photos os the past few days

Sexta feira, quando comecou a nevar

Our street, when it started snowing

Saint Sava temple. It was the coldest day we got here, I think... Despite the (little, liiiiittle snow), the sky was clear and there was even some sun :)

Essa eh pro Fecu e pros interessados em placas, haha. Abaixo, um "close-up":

Yes, it's still there...

\o/

Sunday morning :)

Random, random...

Woke up around 9 and a half in the morning today, and when I looked through the window, everything was softly covered in snow. Like candy! Actually, it looked pretty much like the krempita I made for the triple birthday party we threw in august!
Two days ago Nara and I were in a cafe, craaaazy to eat krempita but alas, it was the only candy/tort that they didn't have anymore at that time. We still need to try krempita here...
And ice cream! Fuck, it's been over a month since I last had some ice cream! I don't think I ever stayed this long without any ice cream. And everytime I see snow ("live" or in some picture, or on the telly), I think of ice cream.

But back talking about snow... The past couple of days made me remember of 1990 Christmas, when my father came home one night saying that, on the next day (the day we were gonna start decorating the house for Christmas), he would bring us some snow to put all over inside the house. I remember I was SO excited, already figuring the living room with the floor covered in snow, snow on the back of the couch and over the dinner table, and on the leaves of our (plastic) Cristmas tree, hahaha. When he came back home from work on the next day, with that can of "snow spray" I was so, but sooooo disappointed, that I was speechless for several minutes, haha. I can still remember the smell of that "snow spray" though... And weirdly enough, when I'm out on the snow, I can clearly feel that same smell :)

Neve!

Momento emocao na rua hoje:

0 graus em pleno meio dia, comeca a ventar horrores. No meio da ventania comecou a chuviscar, e eu comecei a resmungar: eu nao tinha levado meu guarda-chuvas, e mesmo que tivesse levado nao ia adiantar muito, no maximo eu ia sair voando. A chuva estav muuuito, muito fininha e fria, gelada. Tao, mas tao gelada, que de repente a gente se tocou: opa! a chuva tava virando gelo! Hahaha, neveeeeeee, uhuuuuuuu!!!

Haha, durou pouco mais de 5 minutos, e nao deixou nem sinal de um possivel vestigio. Mas diz a previsao de tempo que teremos neve mesmo amanha e talvez pelos proximos dias. E temperaturas abaixo de 0! Issaaaaaaaa!!!

Luva na bolsa, suas meias, meu cachecol, e to feliz da vida!!!

Boletim

O cheiro daqui de Belgrado me lembra Vaduz, nao sei por que cargas d'agua. Um cheiro de madeira queimadinha e planta... Tao familiar!
E o clima aqui eh muito, muito umido... Nao chove de verdade, mas as ruas estao totalmente molhadas, surreal. Hoje tah fazendo algo em torno de 5 graus, e eu to gamando.
Me disseram que no Rio tava fazendo algo em torno de 40 graus. Nao consigo nem imaginar isso agora, haha, Nao troco meus 5 grauzinhos por nada :P
E pode ser que neve ainda essa semana, uhuuuuu!!!

E o mais legal? Eu como chocolate e porcarias aqui e nao engordo e nem fico com espinhas - pelo contrario, perdi 2 kg desde que cheguei na Europa e minha pele nunca esteve melhor.
Issaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

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