#Welcome to Belgrade! We are here for 48 hours to eat and get a new passport stamp...
Breakfast in a little Serbian bakery
First stop: The Temple of Saint Sava, the largest Orthodox church in the world
This church just had its first stone laid in the 1930s, and still isn't finished.
But it is MASSIVE inside.
The church is modeled after Istanbul's Hagia Sophia mosque.
Nikola Tesla is Serbia's most famous son. I wanted to visit his museum, but the wait was 45 min outside in the cold...
The Church of St Mark, not to be confused with the CATHEDRAL of St Mark...
The mosque-like interior of St Mark's.
The Fortress of Belgrade, built in times of antiquity.
The Joneses conquer Belgrade Fortress!
The Fortress overlooks the Danube on a cliff, and is Serbia's most-visited landmark.
Belgrade has many MIchelin restaurants; we chose Iva New Balkan Cuisine. 1st course was roasted local cheese and chicken liver pâté.
For dinner, I ordered chicken with pumpkin butter and potatoes, and Matt ordered pork belly.
Dessert was plums and plum-essence gnocchi in vanilla cream. Meh.
The next day, we visited St. Mark's Cathedral.
Serbia is Orthodox, so Christmas isn't until Jan 7. This was the only Christmas decoration up in early December.
We had a old-school Serbian lunch at Dva Jelena, a 200-year-old restaurant that has served celebrities from Margaret Thatcher to Jaime Oliver.
Last purchase with Serbian dinars: 120 dinar for Serbian Starbursts!
Belgrade, Serbia December 2023