There is a great probability that a lot of Belgradians don’t know what they had for lunch yesterday. But in the whole Serbia you won’t find a person that doesn’t know exactly where they were and what they did on that fatal 24. March 1999. On that day NATO bombing began. The North Atlantic Treaty […]

“Hi, mate, we’ve got our plane tickets. We are leaving Seattle in two hours. Get us some ajvar and be ready to fulfill your promise. We want to meet Serbia in the next 5 days. Please choose Serbian top five destinations that we just must visit and take us there.” That was all that Eddy […]

Every wine is a child of the climate where it sprouts from. It brings together not just the sun and the fertile ground, but also the character of the land, strength of the people and the history that permeates it all. “In vino veritas” is an old proverb and Šumadian wines confirm that by bringing […]

My father Augustin Heussen was born on the 20th of February 1921 in Krefeld, Germany. The following lines are summarizing impressions and experiences from his diary written during his 1939 Balkan tour. After school on the 17th of July 1939 he was ordered to do his crop service in Königsberg, now Kalinengrad, in East Prussia […]