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Had my first positive experience with a dog here in Europe, back in Dubrovnic we were walking but from some club and it came running up to me with its tail wagging and i patted it for a long time and that s about it really.
I finished another book, The Girl with a Pearl Earing. Solid book. Made me cry a little bit.
Bought Angels and Demons here in Belgrade yesterday. A bit scared to start it because I know that that will mean three days of sitting inside and reading.

Beograd time

Lloyd Peter West
2006-06-01 19:42:01

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came up and said good bye to me, they said it was nice meeting and talking to you, but i have never met them before) well, then took PS Spanish is hard The street we stay on
the bus from Dubrovnic down into Montenegro to the town of Bar. we had a 8 hour wait there for our train to Belgrade, went into town, started pouring and we had to run back in the rain. It is bizarre, serbia and montenegro are the same country but montenegro uses Euros and serbia uses Dinars, certainly one country of two peoples. From what i have been told it is very complicated, this whole region is so intertwined and mixed p. Oh, crazy bumped into these two aussie guys at the train station we had met 3 weeks earlier in Zadar. Got on the train. Brilliant, Adam and I had our own compartment, happy days. We sort of devised this plan, which is when we get into our own compartment i pretty much take all my clothes off in an attempt to scare people away. We try to come off as gay lovers and people don't want to mess with that. However it failed misserably this time, half an hour into our trip these 6 rather mean looking Serbs bust in there and tell us to move because they have a reservation, what the hell. Apparently a ticket is not enough you need to pay more for a guaranteed seat. It's 11 pm now, its a 9 hour train ride to Belgrade and we are standing in the muddy tiny corridor amongst a ton of people who were all chain smoking. What a disaster, so we did the only logical thing which was to bring out the wine. We polished that off, got to talking to a bunch of serbs. Cool people. Such a funny compartment of people we were with, this one very pretty girl, this really old guy who kept snoring right next to me, and his cough was awful it sounded as if he was coughing up pieces of his lungs, and this other middle aged guy who kept gesturing to me to go get it on with the girl and then Adam. No one could speak english in the compartment yet they continued to talk to us the whole time in Serbian. Oh, before that i was talking to this other guy in front of someones apartment and this guy went bonkers and got right up in my face, shouting at me in Serbian. The guy i was with said he thought i was a foreign spy or something like that. We got there, such a painful train ride. Arrived at 8 am absolutley knackered.
The one guy i met on the train invited adam and I to his mates birthday party last night. Very interesting. Bought a 2.5 liter bottle of beer on route for a dollar 50. Massive bottle of beer, that is about 80 ounces.
I really like Belgrade, it is the first place where I don't feel like such a tourist. It's all very real. Very eastern bloc still, large concrete structures and big monuments all over the place. It is a bit sad walking around here, the unemployment rate is 22%. It is tradgic to see middle aged men that do not look that different from my father on the sides of street trying to sell hair clips, old russian bank notes, popcorn. I saw this one women last night talking to her two young children and when i looked again she was on her knees in the square begging with her hands out.
I have the worst sense of direction, shit it is annoying.
Had a mixed plate yesterday for lunch. Consisted of two sausages, a hamburger patty, a chicken liver wrapped in bacon, a pork chop and steak friend chicken. Sounds good hey dad!
Alright i am going back to bed. Adios