Just some stuff you may wanna know before setting your sails for Serbia.
Naive art in Kovačica
Money
Banknotes: 5000, 1000, 200, 100, 50, 20 and 10 Dinars
Coins: 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 Dinars
EXCHANGE RATE: 1 EURO ≈ 106 Dinars 10 EURO ≈ 1060Dinars
You can change money at any of hundreds of MENJAČNICA (exchange offices) in Serbia.
Prices in cafes:
Coffee – 0.9 EURO
Juice – 0.8 – 1.2 EURO
Prices in pizzeria:
Pizza – 4 – 10 EURO
Spaghetti – 4- 8 EURO
Prices in restaurants:
Average meal – 10 EURO
Key Phrases
Hello Zdravo
Good morning Dobro jutro
Good afternoon Dobar dan
Good evening Dobro veče
Good night Laku noć
Good bye (formal) Do viđenja
Good bye (informal) Zdravo
How are you? (informal) Kako si?
I’m fine Dobro
Thank you Hvala
I don’t understand Ne razumem
Traditions
Slava
Of all Slavs and Orthodox Christians, only Serbs have the custom of slava. Slava is celebration of a saint; unlike most customs that are common for the whole people, each family separately celebrates its own saint (of course, there is a lot of overlap) who is considered its protector. A slava is inherited, mostly, though not exclusively from father to son (if a family has no son and a daughter stays in parental house and her husband moves in, hers, not his, slava is celebrated).
Kolo
The traditional dance is a circle dance called kolo, which is common among Serbs, Croats, Montenegrins and Macedonians. It is a collective dance, where a group of people (usually several dozen, at the very least three) hold each other by the hands or around the waist dancing, forming a circle (hence the name), semicircle or spiral. It is called Oro in Montenegro. Similar circle dances also exist in other cultures of the region.
Gusle
During Ottoman rule, Serbs were forbidden to own property, to learn to read and write and denied the use of musical instruments. Church music had to be performed in private. Gusle, a one-stringed instrument, was invented by Serbian peasants during this time in an effort to find a loophole through the stringent Ottoman laws. Filip Višnjić was a particularly notable guslar (gusle player)
Famous Serbs:
Nikola Tesla (Inventor, Physicist)
Mileva Marić Einstein (Mathematician)
Charles Simic (Poet)
Emir Kusturica (director/editor/producer/actor/writer)
Marina Abramovic (artist)
Novak Djokovic (Tennis)
Dejan Stanković (Football)