Upon spending quite a lot of time inside, we walked back to the road and caught the same bus #31 back in the direction we'd started. However, we stayed right on it and got off at Republic Square.
The main pedestrian streets we walked yesterday were in this uptown area. We'd heard of a famous mosque here too that was built in the 1500s and it was in the old neighbourhood near the fort area. We walked to take a photo too. The history of this area is so long and complex!
Today continued to be hot. It is somewhat unusual for June for the temperatures to reach 33C but it is today in this age of continuing record-breaking weather statistics. We were thinking of finding a restaurant nearer our hotel and walked back down the hill rather than getting on a tram with a number unknown to us.
We walked past a small Turkish restaurant and decided to go in for lunch. There were no other patrons inside at the time so we had the guys full attention. He was from Turkey but married a Serbian woman and has owned the place for four years but lived in the city for 15. When talking about the weather, he mentioned Dubai and Qatar in the summer and never experiencing 45C until that trip.
In the evening we went back out and walked different areas near our hotel. We also jumped on a tram named #12. It is good visitor practice in any city, but it riding the trams and buses makes even more sense because it's free.
When it started to get dark, we realized we should have dinner. I hadn't had a pizza since we were in Venice, Italy back at the end of last month. The near corner to us had an Italian restaurant. So I had my second pizza of this trip in Belgrade, Serbia tonight.
Tomorrow, we will be off on a day trip to the city of Novi Sad. There's now an electric high-speed train so it'll only take around a half hour on the rails. Getting to the new railroad station will take about a half hour as it's on the other side of the river from our hotel.