Searching for the color of Zagreb, Croatia

Banja Luka - Capital of Republika Srpska

SARAJEVO - CAMOMILE CINNAMON

Sarajevo 28th June 1914 - World War I

Bosnian traditional song

Entering a Mosque in Sarajevo

Searching for the colour of Sarajevo

From Belgrade to Sarajevo

BELGRADE - RUST ORANGE

Tasmajdan, Sports Centre - Belgrade

Map of Belgrade

Searching for the colour of Belgrade

From Hungary to Serbia

BUDAPEST - SAFFRON CERULEAN

A night with Hungarian music

On Friday night we went to see Mihály in the house where he was born in the 1940s. We sat around his big desk and talked about Budapest and Hungary. He told us about the history of his country and about the Balkans. He displayed a number of maps, old and new, and showed us how complex the history of the Balkans and its surrounding countries was. After a long chat he played us some Hungarian music and we compared it with Serbian music. We also had time to talk about Liszt, who was born in a small Hungarian village and taught music in Budapest. Apparently, he was very pro-Hungarian but couldn't speak a word of Hungarian.

Mihály is the author of Montenegro's first travel guide and knows Hungary and the Balkans like the palm of his hand.

Zrínyi Street - Budapest

On Thursday, we asked a postman if he knew where Királyhágó street was. He told us that Budapest had 3 different streets called Királyhágó and that we had to know which of Budapest's 23 districts the street was in.
The postman explained to us that Budapest has many different streets with the same name and that it can be really confusing. He told us that if you live in Zrínyi street you might never receive a letter if the sender doesn't write down the district number. There are 12 streets called Zrínyi in Budapest.

Our way to Budapest

Our first stop in Hungary was at Mosonmagyaróvár, a small town with a long name. There we changed some Euros for Forints and were surprised to see that they use 200-Forint notes (that would be like having 80-Euro-cent notes). A Euro equals 250 Forints.
We arrived in Budapest on Saturday night and stayed at Anna and her boyfriend's flat in Barát Utca (Friend Street). We had some tea and talked about their city. They told us that we were in Pest and that Buda was on the other side of the Danube. The cities of Buda and Pest were unified with Óbuda in 1873 to become Budapest. At midnight, we listened to Hungary's national anthem, which can be heard every night at 12 on most radio stations.

BRATISLAVA - YELLOW TEAL

VIENNA - GOLDEN PINK

Ethan is loving it at Highend

We stayed at Breitenfurt, Helene's country house on the outskirts of Vienna and at Raul Zöttl's shared flat in Maria Theresien Straße, in the very centre of Vienna just beside Flex. The flat also called HighendWG is shared by Raul, an Austrian guy with a Spanish soul; Glassi, a cyclist who gave Neil a pair of shoes; Jose, a tourist guide from Huelva; Sabine, a social worker who used to work with Viennese prostitutes; Hanna, a girl from Tirol and her boyfriend Yaniv from Israel who was the owner of Ethan, a charismatic black cat from Tel-Aviv's fish market. Ethan was loving the shared flat. He walked and sneezed from room to room with a very strong expression on his face.
During our week in Vienna, Raul kindly took us all around the city and showed us its main districts, monuments, streets and buildings. And every night, he showed us Vienna's night life. We loved it.

Searching for the colour of Vienna

From Vaduz to Vienna

It took us two days to hitch-hike from Vaduz to Vienna. The first day we got as far as Munich. We got a lift from a 76-year-old doctor and his wife who were travelling from Vaduz to Germany. Between Memmenberg and Munich, we got a lift from Mathias, a comic artist who invited us for a coffee and gave us a copy of his latest work. Once in Munich, we went to this year's Oktoberfest and slept at the city's airport.

The following day we got as far as Salzburg. We were given a lift from an Italian lorry driver who was transporting Pellegrino water bottles from Germany to Italy. He took us in the wrong direction but kept us entertained and gave us some bottles of water. Once in Salzburg, we walked around the centre and went to see Mozart's birthplace. We spent the night at the city's small airport and arrived in Vienna the following night.

VADUZ - FOREST GREEN CREAM