I do feel for all the folk holed up in that hotel but felt I needed to redress the balance if only in a small way as to my experience in Belgrade.
On arrival through customs a helpful taxi driver, with aspirations of being a rally driver, took us to our hotel. The hotel was warm, clean and the staff helpful.
I had a mission to find Jumbo to pick a package up from him. I lost all bearings & must've asked half a dozen folk where Republic Square was, every single one of them was more than helpful.
Before the match, the police came in the pub to tell us we must leave, we explained we had a mini bus booked at 7.30 and he said, fair enough and let us stay in the pub till then.
On our return back to the centre, the police were again, polite and courteous. After a long day, we told the police we were a wee bit hungry and so we'll be off for the night, they said, 'take care' and off we went. Not speaking a word of Serbian, the take away assistant suggested a top sweet delicacy for my travelling partner. And a belting feed was had by all.
Our flight from Belgrade to Zurich was delayed by over an hour and so this meant we would miss our connection. The gentleman at Jat arranged for us to have a car waiting on the runway at Zurich & taken to the next available flight. Top bloke!
I need to apologise for all my previous 'barbarian' comments. Every person we met was top notch!
I do feel for all the folk holed up in that hotel but felt I needed to redress the balance if only in a small way as to my experience in Belgrade.
On arrival through customs a helpful taxi driver, with aspirations of being a rally driver, took us to our hotel. The hotel was warm, clean and the staff helpful.
I had a mission to find Jumbo to pick a package up from him. I lost all bearings & must've asked half a dozen folk where Republic Square was, every single one of them was more than helpful.
Before the match, the police came in the pub to tell us we must leave, we explained we had a mini bus booked at 7.30 and he said, fair enough and let us stay in the pub till then.
On our return back to the centre, the police were again, polite and courteous. After a long day, we told the police we were a wee bit hungry and so we'll be off for the night, they said, 'take care' and off we went. Not speaking a word of Serbian, the take away assistant suggested a top sweet delicacy for my travelling partner. And a belting feed was had by all.
Our flight from Belgrade to Zurich was delayed by over an hour and so this meant we would miss our connection. The gentleman at Jat arranged for us to have a car waiting on the runway at Zurich & taken to the next available flight. Top bloke!
I need to apologise for all my previous 'barbarian' comments. Every person we met was top notch!