Belgrade buses and ten ticket pass

Belgrade buses

Many of these were called “Solaris”. Or at least the bendy ones were. One feature of the bendy Solaris is that each of the two sections has its own tannoy announcing bus stops in delightful ‘lady-tone’, which was fine, except that the tannoys were out of sync. Which, especially when you couldn’t understand what on earth was being said, was disorientating.

Riding the bus did, however, allow me to see an excellent piece of graffiti in Novi Belgrade - “Skins, punks and football fans.” This was welcome, firstly as I could read and understand it (or at least I could understand the literal meaning), and secondly, it provided a decent list of subcultures to avoid trying to turn into a film.

Belgrade ten ticket pass

I used seven trips of my ten ticket pass. I should have given the three remainders away, but I wouldn’t have had a take away souvenir. My seven Belgrade journeys were:

1. test ride, on the bus, from Slavija to the Moscow Hotel
2. tram from the main station to Banovo Brdo
3. tram from Banovo Brdo to Zemun Beach
4. bus from Zemun back to downtown (bus station)
5. tram from Slavija to O.U.R. bar
6. bus to airport for aeronautical museum…..
7. …. and back again

Links Far more attention and insight on Novi Belgrade
Solaris, the book, which has thrice been filmed
O.U.R. Bar. Maybe I had a lucky escape