Partizan versus Red Star – flares never went out of fashion in Belgrade

A few quick updates – I am now on Twitter @noflytripping – follow for a daily travel photo and other occasional updates. Also follow my Facebook page for more photos and hopefully some videos from the game below.

Let’s be honest, Serbs have a bit of a reputation in “the West”, the civil war in Bosnia, the actions of Slobodan Milosevic, (and, as I might mention in another post, their own Military Museum) mean they are often portrayed as being rather warlike and aggressive and their pride in their identity can magnify this effect. All I can say is that my experience of Serbians during my time in Belgrade has been nothing like that, with everyone very friendly despite the fact planes from my country bombed their’s only 15 years ago as part of NATO’s campaign against Serbian actions in Kosovo. They are perfectly civilised people.

Except for when…..