Skopje, like so many other large cities in the Balkans, has a large fortress that dominates the high point of the city. The first iteration...

Some young Germans staying at the same hotel as we were in Skopje suggested that we abandon the Vegas-like city center for a drive up the c...

I grew up thinking of Macedonia as a region of the ancient world that was almost synonymous with Greece, and most of my exposure to i...

To kick off this last post on Serbia, I will begin with a few of my favorite images from Novi Sad and Belgrade: We saw only a two or th...

After our lunch we had a little time to walk around Sremski Karlovi, a small town of about 9,000  situated on the Danube. It was surprising...

Like Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia still has some issues with what part of the country belongs to whom.  Montenegro, seen in the map below in ...

One of the biggest shifts in thought I had on this trip involved Marshal Tito, Prime Minister and President of Yugoslavia from 1944 until h...