Belgrade was a really nice city. News flash: Serbia is no longer the bad boy of the Balkans. Once dismissed as drab Belgrade has many fine things to offer.
This was the first city however that actually felt foreign to me. The written language is all in Cyrillic alphabet. There is no guessing what anything says.
I used my time in Belgrade as a 'work day', sitting in front of a computer for a few hours. We now have money properly moved around, we are carying American dollars and Euros, we have a place to stay in Istanbul and plain tickets to Bali look super cheap. The internet cafe was nice I found. They played trip-hop music, it was dark and you could smoke and drink while using a computer.
I hit up a casino on the way home and played for the better part of an hour on 500 dinar (about $7). Didn't win anything but it payed for the free drinks. Because of the inflation here casino nights would be a blast. It made the max bet on most machines five cents.
I went to bed early and woke up at 6 am to head to the train station. Tickets were fairly cheap to Istanbul and we made the train with no problems. We will be residing in a sleeper car made for two for the next 24 hours. That's the longest time on a train I have done yet.
Should be in Istanbul around 7 am on the 25th
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