By the time I finally made it home from my first ever Belgrade Splav experience, it was somewhere around 7am. With only a few hours until I had to meet the owner of the private apartment Peder and I had reserved for the weekend, I set my alarm for 9:45, took a quick “nap,” threw on my backpack, and rushed across town.
I arrived 10 minutes late, still intoxicated from the endless bottles of free wine the night before. I really hope she didn’t notice.
The apartment was everything I could’ve wished for – spacious, comfortable, well-furnished, and fantastically located: just one block from Silicon Valley and right across the street from a huge supermarket. It had free laundry, internet, and even a hi-fi soundsystem – several bonuses I certainly wasn’t expecting.
So thanks (?) to my cozy new surroundings, I ended up spending nearly all of Friday sound asleep in bed – recharging my batteries until Peder’s arrival somewhere around 11pm.
As it turned out, he too would be starting the weekend after a long sleepless night…spent studying for his last upper-division biochemistry exam of the semester. He’d brought his luggage to the test and left straight for the airport. Yet despite the understandable exhaustion, after just a couple hours catching up and getting settled he managed to pump his energy level back up to 10. We grabbed a cab straight for the river. Destination: H20, one of Belgrade’s top three splavs, where Jeca and her sister had already gone ahead to reserve a table and await our arrival. It was our first night out in Belgrade – and our reunion after a full year of hard work at home with no international travel whatsoever.
(…well, for me at least. Peder did take a quick trip to India and Thailand last spring π )
Yet for such a well-known club, I have to admit it was a bit disappointing. Not because it was boring; on the contrary, it was so full of people you scarcely knew where to go. And not because they were unfriendly; the vibe in fact felt quite nice. It was because of the soundsystem. The volume was so over-the-top that it made any type of social interaction pretty much impossible – nobody could say even one word to each other. Ten minutes after our arrival we found ourselves out front deliberating on where to head next. “Another splav, perhaps?”
Well, wouldn’t you know it, the rain had once again started pouring down – and since we were a ways upriver from the “main” splav area, we decided to head straight back to the apartment for a more laid back evening of drinks and hookah.
Sometimes you just can’t beat a little bit of comfort π And even though it may not’ve been the “big night out in Belgrade” we’d initially planned, it was still loads of fun. The four of us stayed up partying until somewhere around 10am.
Finally some “real” people in the blog π Ha ha, it was a good night. Remember I ate 14 eggs since we never managed to find me dinner π
“Real” people…?
…like me!
Need More ***********
Hahahaha Andy…such a whiner π
Well “El Pedro” i am “real ppl” too, cuz i am not from Justin imagination lol
How do you know you’re not in Justin’s imagination at night? π
Jeca! Didn’t know you were reading, hehe π
El Pedro: I am not sure lol but i think that ya need to ask that Justin not me π
Justin: I did π just i didn’t know how to reply π but i think that i found the way π
By the way, how to change this avatar? π cuz it’s sucks π i don’t even wear glasses, except sunglasses π plus he look pretty much mad :/ just like me on my real photos lololololol
Well, if u login with ur facebook account when leaving comments it’ll automatically use your profile image as your avatar π
Once you’ve done it once, I can go back and change your other comments so they recognize your account.
I’ve tried but don’t allow me π always write error π i really don’t know why… But it’s ok, will try again other time.
Ya know what is interesting lol this flag cuz it was of Yugoslavia and now is just Serbia so is different. I don’t mind at all π but i was lil bit surprised π …And this what ya have: “select language” lol when ya select Serbian ,translation is so silly π
>>Ya know what is interesting lol this flag cuz it was of Yugoslavia
Weird – it does geolocation based on your IP address, perhaps if it can’t find where you are specifically, but it knows you’re *somewhere* informer Yugoslavia, it’ll put that. For example, if you see Okpulk’s flag on this post: here, it’s correct, right?
>>Iβve tried but donβt allow me π always write error π
What does it say specifically? That’s weird, I have dozens of people login with it every day, without an issue…and I didn’t get any failure notifications from the login plugin, either. What’s the “error”?
Write like this: Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string in…
“Weird β it does geolocation based on your IP address, perhaps if it canβt find where you are specifically, but it knows youβre *somewhere* informer Yugoslavia, itβll put that. For example, if you see Okpulkβs flag on this post: here, itβs correct, right?”
Yes i saw that, but this guy Branko have Yugoslavian flag too
Lol somewhere in Yugoslavia yes but precise in Serbia cuz ya know Croatia also was part of Yugoslavia and many others like Slovenia, Macedonia…
@Jeca: I’m not sure I wanna know the answer to what Justin thinks about at night, lol π
El Pedro: LOL El Pedro LOL why ya wanna know that? π And why especially at night? Ppl think about a lot of things in the day too LOL
Oh sorry Peder now i understand π Ya don’t want to know what he thing about at night LOL
>>Write like this: Catchable fatal error: Object of class WP_Error could not be converted to string inβ¦
Ohh, that actually maybe a bug in my login script! One or two other people have reported it, but I’ve never been able to reproduce the problem. Could you please try again? I added some debug code so it should hopefully email me details of the problem…
>>Yes i saw that, but this guy Branko have Yugoslavian flag too
Well…the one on Okpulk’s post looks like the current one on Wikipedia!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Serbia.svg
“Ohh, that actually maybe a bug in my login script! One or two other people have reported it, but Iβve never been able to reproduce the problem. Could you please try again? I added some debug code so it should hopefully email me details of the problem⦔
I did it now but still is the same π will try tomorrow again many times, will try all day… cuz now i am so tired, just go back from city plus was on some motobike show almost all day π I hope that will work tomorrow for me…
Can u send me a copy of the whole message you see? It should be reporting a line number.
It probably won’t work until I fix it, i’m pretty sure I have a bug…
Wellβ¦the one on Okpulkβs post looks like the current one on Wikipedia!
Yeah that is the Serbian flag π White eagle with two heads, color: red, blue, white with symbol 4 C (English S). That means Samo Sloga Srbina Spasava (English: Only Unity Saves the Serbs) π
“Can u send me a copy of the whole message you see? It should be reporting a line number.
It probably wonβt work until I fix it, iβm pretty sure I have a bug⦔
K, wait a sec.
Huh? But u just said “Yes i saw that, but this guy Branko have Yugoslavian flag too” ! π
Ya have PM on FB π
“Huh? But u just said βYes i saw that, but this guy Branko have Yugoslavian flag tooβ !”
Yes cuz Branko is Serbian name so must be Serb π
Lol nevermind…u just said “he has a yugoslavian flag”, but then later u said it’s the correct serbian flag π I think we’re having a language barrier here tho π
Haha yes probably we do π