RITAM SRBIJE / RHYTHM OF SERBIA
MY KRALJEVO HOW I GREW UP BESIDE THE IBAR There are no stories or travelogues that are capable of presenting you with everything. There are some things that you have to discover for yourself. Guidebooks serve to shorten the time you spend travelling somewhere, for instance to Kraljevo “VIEWEDFROMABOVE,FOR EXAMPLE FROM A PLANE,” be- gins my father’s friend, Uncle Vidan, a pilot at the then military airport in Lađevci, “Kraljevo is a single point that’s barely visible!” I look at Uncle Vidan, mouth agape, sceptical, what kind of single point!? In this point alone, on the banks of the Ibar, doz- ens of families are sunbathing. And Vidan is also there. In truth, without his pilot’s hat and shoulder epaulets, instead wearing swimming trunks. The day is beautiful, the city beach
U slivu Ibra se stiču odrazi srednjovekovnih manastira. Tu su Žiča, Studenica, Gradac... / The Ibar basin carries the reflections of medieval monasteries. There are Žiča, Studenica, Gradac...
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