24 Hours in Belgrade | The Harvard Crimson
I wrote The Crimson a dispatch from Belgrade:
BELGRADE, Serbia — 2:30pm: Outside Nikola Tesla Airport, cab drivers approach us in quick succession after I arrive with my boyfriend and his sister for a three-day trip to visit his friend from college. We’ve been warned to be wary of unmetered ‘gypsy’ cabs run by drivers eager to overcharge clueless tourists. My boyfriend tries to reason with one, insisting that his friend, a Belgrade native, assured us that a cab would cost no more than 1,500 dinars— nothing close to the 2,500 the cabbie has quoted. The driver retorts, “Well, why doesn’t your friend pick you up then?” [more]