Thursday, August 13, 2009
5:29 PM
In the morning we had a delicious breakfast/lunch of traditional Turkish food that was prepared for us by Edena's mom. Marko was still feeling pretty under the weather but he had started a slow revival. We planned on heading back to Belgrade that evening, so we figured it would be best to get the last of our needed sightseeing. We had walked past the castle and citadel in the days prior but hadn't had time to fit them in.
Both were healthy treks and gave beautiful views of the city. The castle was up on a fairly wide hill and was really more of a small city than just a castle. Easily the most unfortunate thing about the area was that a Hilton had been put in near the top and done in a very poor fashion. Although I'd assume it wasn't built during the 70's due to communism, it looked like it was and had really aesthetically displeasing brown glass windows.
We also came across the best hustle either of us had seen in Europe. There was a guy with 3 bottle caps and a little red ball playing the old Bruin Shuffle switch-a-roo. But, the twist was not with that he was taking all comers, it was that he would constantly do it, poorly, then take losing bets for over $200 USD or 200 Euro from 'random' guys in an attempt to rope people in. I tried to get a game for the Hungarian equivalent of $10 but he wasn't having it. As we wound up our walks we went back to the local kebab place and feasted one last time, then caught our train back to Beograd.
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