• The Balkans

    Bike tour Belgrad

    July 22, 2021 in Serbia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C

    Tour with iBikes and our guide Simon. With leftish point of view he explained to us rise and fall of the white city beginning with the Celts (300 BC), continuing with the Romans, Slavs, Ottoman empire, Austria-Hungarians, Nazi Germany and the change to a kingdom with the end of WW2 turning it into the recent Yugoslavia with its desolvement in the 90s.
    The change of perspective from Serbia being the oppressor to being the victim gives a wider empathy to another side of the (ongoing) conflict.    Read more