Belgrade 2012 (Prvi dan)

Here are a few pictures from our first day in Belgrade. Back here after four years I notice a lot of grafiti/street art on the buildings. Some of it is amazing, such as the mural with Karadjordje ("George the black"), the first ruler of the Karadorgevic dynasty, leader of the First Serbian uprising against the Turks in the early 19th century, on a building in the Savamala neighborhood, not far from Brankov most. Karadjordje, according to a brief history of his life I read recently, could neither read not write, yet he was an amazing leader and was greatly admired by Napoleon Bonaparte. He was was a pig farmer who was so respectful of learned Serbs of the day (e.g. Vuk Karadzic) that he used to greet them by kissing their hand.

As bad luck would have it, a bunch of great pictures taken on this day disappeared from the memory card during the transfer to the computer. The card reader is faulty. I am trying not to let this get me down.

PS: The last picture from this series, of a father teaching his son to ride a bike, was taken in the courtyard of Vladimir's elementary school in Palilula.