JUST ONE YEAR OLDER

 Just noticed that the coffee I buy came into being just one year before I arrived in Belgrade. 

DOG-TIRED

 The 'L' on the first word and the 'ST' on the last are cut off because I couldn't frame the photo well. The words on this pet shop window mean Love, Friendship, and Responsibility. The dog, unfortunately, is a stray, but appears well-fed.

URBAN ABSTRACT

 

Abstract in red and yellow; that's it.

G.O.A.T.

 G.O.A.T. spells 'goat,' but this billboard pays homage to Novak Djoković, the tennis player whose wins make him the world' s Greatest Of All Time. Note the flag neck scarf and the tennis ball.

RETURN FROM VACATION

 This plane is heading to Belgrade from a southernly direction, perhaps from Greece, where probably some of its passengers spent their vacation. Not me, alas; I am going to India in a couple of months.

PEOPLE, NOT PROFIT!

Thanks to my friend Gorana for this photo, taken last evening at a huge march of people protesting the goverment's allowing Rio Tinto, a mining company, to destroy acres of land to extract lithium.

The sign reads "For a foreign country and profit, you would betray your country. Ask the people."

 

TOO HOT TO SIT

 Yesterday I showed a lucky frog lounging in the water. No such luck for any strollers todat. Too hot to sit.

WHERE I'D LIKE TO BE

 Would love to immerse myself in cool water like this frog.  (Forgot to credit my son for this photo!)

LOST

 Some child lost his toy. I remember as a child losing Whitey, my beloved small stuffed dog, in a movie theater about 12 miles from our house. My grandfather drove back and retrieved it. I was ever grateful. Hope this little guy makes it home.

I'D MOVE IN

 I posted this place quite a number of years ago when I lived not very far away. On a recent visit to my old 'hood, I was pleased to see it still standing. Don't know the details, but when it would be fixed up, this villa would shine. I would live therr.

THIS IS NOT A PUB (Apolgies to Magritte's 'Ceci n'est pas une pipe')

 Another expat in Belgrade, Andrew L., posted this in a local group, wondering what the P.U.B. stands for, since it does not look like a pub! I was curious, too, since I have often noticed the P.U.B but have been more interested in t he wooden dome above and behind it. A reader answered about the P.U.B., that it is an acronym for a long-gone Czech bank.

As for the dome, it is much more part of the building than it looks, but what EXACTLY it is, I cannot find. It was used in part of a 1967 Yugoslav film entitled "The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator" starring Eva Ras.