I came to Serbia for its cheapness compared to central Europe, but I’ll admit that the country is giving me more reasons to stay.
I arrived on 2 July to volunteer at a hostel in the southern city of Niš (pronounced ‘Nish’), which I’m quickly discovering has more than it’s fair share of claims to history.
It’s the birthplace of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great, who decriminalised Christianity throughout his empire in 313 AD.
It’s the place that in 1914 received the telegram from Austria-Hungary declaring . . .
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