Showing posts with label Pirot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pirot. Show all posts

Monday, August 25, 2008

Odd Shots Monday: Home, sweet home!

They say "Home is where the heart is," and indeed this fellow looks like his heart is content. Click and see where he's sleeping. Took this photo the other week in Pirot, in Eastern Serbia.

Answer to yesterday's mystery object: They're the ends of two racing kayaks that had been put up to dry out.

Monday, August 11, 2008

What a scoop!

The latest "scoop" for Serbian readers is that instead of paying 25-60 dinars a scoop for ice cream (sladoled=SLA-doe-led) here in Belgrade, if you drive three hours down to the town of Pirot (PEER-rut) near the Bulgarian border, you can get a cone for only 5 dinars a scoop! Currently, there are around 50 dinars to $1.00, so you can see what a deal this is. People of Pirot, or Piroćanci (PEER-row-chahn=tsee) are known for their thriftiness, much as the Scots are, and don't like to spend money when they don't have to. That's my husband's hand modestly accepting just one scoop (kugla=KOO-gla) of strawberry ice cream. Note that Serbs wear their wedding bands on their right hands, according to Serbian Orthodox practice.

CINDERELLA TREES

 I just had to take this photo of these three evergreens which looked to me like they're going to the ball.  See photo I pinched below. ...