This is no ordinary McDonalds…  Located in the heart of Subotica, it is the world’s only Art Nouveau McDonalds, and is housed in a historic 1912 building!

Welcome to….. McDonalds!

…complete with original fittings and fixtures!

Mission accomplished, it is time to head back to Novi Sad…

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Since on this McDonald’s trip the intention was not to eat there, we stopped at Boss Cafe for lunch – I love this place!

…remember the winery we visited..?

…and Renaissance for dessert…

 

…and still on our McDonald’s trip, we finally reached lovely Subotica…

Hahaha…  Interesting – my Skopje trip was a couple of years ago!

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…and no trip to McDonalds would be complete without a visit to a Serbian winery (we didn’t have time to do the tour, but I love the building!)

Yes, you read that correctly – a friend and I did a road trip to Subotica (on the border between Serbia and Hungary) to find McDonalds – but not just any McDonalds…  More on that later.

First stop was Park Heroja…

 

One day, a red ‘something’ appeared in the river…  The photos tell the story (and note just how shallow the Danube has become! – and note how strong the current is!)  Thankfully this is the secondary channel, not the main one all the barges and cruise ships use…

After a few days, someone came to do something about the red something…

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Well, not quite.  The Serbian military were celebrating something and for several days were doing ‘float-bys’ up and down the Danube.

Perhaps number 36 needed a smoke screen?  Hmmmmm……..

 

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It doesn’t snow very much here, but when it does, it is very pretty!

The fog here can be incredible – not long after I took these photos, it was a complete white-out.

…but the next day, sunshine!  Oh, and don’t worry about the rusty railings – they have already been taken care of.

…and it was either then next night or the one after that, it was party time in Novi Sad!

Parties, fireworks, etc – they are a regular occurrence here in Novi Sad…

I left a few things behind on my last visit, so made a quick trip back to collect them… some views of the area near Edinburgh on the river, and the iconic Firth of Forth Bridge (that’s the red one)…

Another ‘tough’ flight…

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