Belgrade is the capital of Serbia and the former capital of Yugoslavia. Our morning tour takes us around the capital stopping first at the Kalemegdan Fortress. Our guide for the morning, Mileksa, talked about her apathy toward politics now. She is probably close to fifty years old, based on the things she talked about, and has seen the government change several times. She lived through the bombings as recently as eleven years ago. She was working in a building ...

We had two tours today. The morning tour is included in the price of the cruise, but the afternoon tour is one of the few optional tours offered. Every day we will have one included tour, except on Thursday when we are cruising all day through the Iron Gates region, including the locks that will take us down over 100 feet in elevation. Not knowing what to expect in the former Yugoslavia, we found a fairly typical small Eastern European city with old Orthodox an...