11-Oct-2009, Sunday :
It has been warm here from the time I landed at Belgrade. Which was, to be frank, quite
a disappointment, because I was hoping for a break from the warm weather back home.
To add to our woes, our customer's office being spacious enough just for their employees,
we were given a work-area which was a little low on ventilation and air-conditioning.
We had been cribbing all of last week about the weather and I guess as an answer to our
prayers, it started getting a bit cold yesterday evening. We left from work for the hotel
at around 7PM and we could feel the chill air. Today (Sunday) morning when we went
down for coffee at 8AM, it was quite cold, which was accentuated by the wind.
We had planned to take a conducted city tour, but the pretty girls at the hotel reception
told us that the travel agency did not have tours on Sundays. Anyway, we being not easily
deterred, we decide to explore the city on our own. One of us had a map and we took off
on foot. The destination was supposed to be the banks of the river Danube. Yeah, I am
sure most of you remember it from your Geography lessons in school - I do.
We walk some 3 kms and reach a touristy kind of place. Sort of like those big squares in
Belgium. There are open-air restaurants all around, big buildings, statues etc - basically
stuff that tourists love to photograph. After 4 days at Belgrade, this was the first time I
saw women who were flabby / out-of-shape, and I was seriously worried that this was
going to prove my theory of all Serbian women being flawless wrong. But not to worry,
these women were foreigners - mostly American tourists.
We decide to rest our tired legs and grab something to eat. By the time we had some
food, it started drizzling and down the drain went our plan to hit the river. What fun
would it be to get to the river all soaking wet ? And anyway who would be at the river
in such weather. Being tired, we hail a taxi and get back to the heated environs of our
hotel.
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