Wednesday, May 4, 2011
I guess I'll just drink all day
Belgrade is pissing me off. It's cold and grey and windy and it makes my nose run. So it would be a good museum day, except that all the museums are closed because of the stupid Workers' Holiday (May 1), which is four goddamn days long. And there aren't enough internet cafes, and my hotel charges five euros a day for wireless. My hotel also has no maps, because of the stupid Workers' Holiday. I wandered around and eventually found a tourist office, but the tourist office maps are huge and don't fold very well and make you look like a tourist. And there are newsstands everywhere but it is impossible to find the New York Times, or the Herald Tribune, or whatever the hell it's called in other countries. Sarajevo has one-fifth the population of Belgrade, and they have international newspapers. Christ.
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I suspect you will look like a tourist no matter what size map you are holding, because you are not celebrating a Workers' Holiday. Five euros a day seems reasonable if you compare it to the cost of a paper, though reading the paper on a phone is worse than in a cafe, where you will obviously blend in with the locals thanks to your smaller map and New York Times.
ReplyDeleteIn summary, clearly Belgrade is just less civilized.
I had two English muffins for breakfast with maple butter. Oh, Canada!