Private and shared tours

One is on their right path as long as you go in the direction their fear grows Wretched and miserable are those who have held in high esteem the book they did not love and hated those they did Houses are much like books: so many of them around you, yet one only looks at a few and visit or reside in ever fewer And so, when I began reading the offered pages, I at one moment lost my train of thought in the text and drowned it in my own sentiments. In these moments of absenc

BITI NA SEDMOM NEBU ★ literally means to be on the seventh sky and its translation equivalent is to be ‘on cloud nine’ , to be blissfully happy , to be ecstatic biti means to be , na means on, sedmo means the seventh, nebo means sky. GLEDATI nekoga ZABEZEKNUTO ★ this collocation literally means to look at somebody in a complete shock, to look at smb shocked, startled, astonished. SVE SE MOŽE KAD SE HOĆE ★ this saying literally means ‘one can do anything with the will power

“Oblivion heals everything and song is the most beautiful way to forget, for in song man feels only what he loves.” “For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be unrequited , there lie horizons , prospects and pathways wide open, which are closed and unknown to those many clever, ambitious, yet the selfish ones .” “They set foot there into the subliminal philosophy of the town; that life was an unintelligible miracle, since it was wasted and spent

PUSTITI KORENJE this phrase literally means - to grow roots , to settle down in one place , to become set in one’s ways and resistant to move or change; pustiti means to let something grow , koren means a root and korenje is its plural form. POZNAVATI NEŠTO kao SOPSTVENI DŽEP this phrase literally means - to know something as if it were your own pocket . Its equivalent in English is to know something ‘inside out’ , to know something very well; poznavati means to know, nešt

ISPRAVLJATI KRIVE DRINE ★ The literal translation of this phrase would be to make the curving Drina river flow straight and not to let the river zig zag which strikes as a futile feat, Its real meaning is to right the wrongs, to try to remedy the situation. ’. This idiom is normally used when one finds themselves in an unfortunate situation to not be able to find an easy way out, improve the situation or circumstances or to change the ways of the world. It is normally used in

IZAĆI/IZBITI NA LOŠ GLAS ★literally means to gain notoriety, to have your reputation tarnished, to have bad press or to be famous and infamous in your line of work or in your private life. Izbiti or izaći in this context means to end up, to gain, na means on, loš means bad and glas means voice or in this context reputation SPAVATI kao TOP ★ literally means to sleep like a cannon, spavati means to sleep and top means a cannon ; it is similar to spavatikaoklada or kaobalvan

★ POBEĆI NA ZLATIBOR DA ČUVAMO OVCE This phrase literally means to run away to Zlatibor mountain in Serbia ‘to herd sheep’ i.e. to enjoy life as a shepherd. This is normally used as an expression of annoyance with the life ‘in the fast lane’, the life in huge cities or ‘the rat race’. One would say this: ‘Odoh/BeŽim na Zlatibor da Čuvam ovce! when they ‘want to get away from it all’ and the only solution to a problem seems to be ‘opting out of society’ OtiĆi means to leave,

RADIO MILEVA Literal translation is radio by the name Mileva. Mileva is a Serbian name, though less common in this day and age, but with un

SVUDA PODJI KUCI DODJI Wherever you travel to far away places and even perhaps off the beaten track at times, you are bound to feel homesick and to come back home at some point A related phrase to this one is DOME SLATKI DOME! Which means ‘ Home sweet home’ KOSA kao SVRAČIJE GNEZDO The literal translation of this phrase is to ‘that one’s hair is like a magpie’s nest’. Its metaphorical or idiomatic meaning means that one’s hair is tousled and disheveled and they need to c

Learn some of the most popular Serbian phrases - week 2

Learn some of the most popular Serbian phrases - week 1