{"id":316,"date":"2006-12-27T17:44:34","date_gmt":"2006-12-28T00:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/estounanet.com\/blog\/?p=316"},"modified":"2007-02-21T05:46:09","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T12:46:09","slug":"things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/?p=316","title":{"rendered":"Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I return to a place that touched me so much I normally\u00a0have high expectations regarding everything&#8230;I think it&#8217;s a normal thing but of course a risk since you can frustrate this expectations&#8230;This didn&#8217;t happen in Subotica&#8230; It was amazing:)<\/p>\n<p>After presenting Raquel to my friends we went for lunch, a strool and a coffee around the city&#8230; I verified the first change in the city imediately&#8230;4 years ago the first ATM machine was\u00a0installed here&#8230;nowadays&#8230;there are ATM machines in every corner!! The rest&#8230;completely the same, but with the usual commercial interests ahead. New stores, new bars, but everything keeping an old but stylish style! &#8220;Yanko&#8221;, an old friend took some time just to drop by and say hello:)<\/p>\n<p>We went to Kristina&#8217;s house to get installed since we were going to sleep there and\u00a0imagine what was the first thing Khristina&#8217;s mum told me when she saw me: &#8211; Lu\u00eds, guitar!!! It&#8217;s incredible how small things are kept in memory:)<\/p>\n<p>The night was starting to get colder but we wanted to return to our bar &#8220;Sax&#8221;, to eat Burek, and to feel Subotica like we did before! There are things that doesn&#8217;t change&#8230;When we were drinking the old &#8220;Vinhaq&#8221; on the street before &#8220;SAX&#8221; we were surprised by an old man selling old money bills. When Keba and Steve told him about my &#8220;story&#8221;, the man simply\u00a0offered me an old bill of 100 dinars from the year 1944 while shouting &#8220;Figo&#8221; and &#8220;Ronaldo&#8221; and &#8220;Portugal&#8221;! Only in Serbia:)<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image326\" style=\"width: 435px; height: 433px\" height=\"433\" alt=\"collage19.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/collage19.jpg\" width=\"435\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The rest of the night was incredible!!! We talked, danced, laughed, and in the middle of the night a girl approached me and just said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Lu\u00eds,\u00a0I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s you!!! Do you remember me?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I just said&#8230;please help me!! I can&#8217;t remember:)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It&#8217;s me, Lidija!!<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; No wayyyyyyyyy!:) I can&#8217;t belive it&#8217;s you!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>Lidija is a big friend and I just couldn&#8217;t recognize her since she lost 26 Kg&#8230;what a change \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>After we &#8220;closed&#8221; the bar we went to LIPA and the &#8220;burek&#8221; luckily didn&#8217;t change:) Raquel tasted it after all my descriptions and she liked it!<\/p>\n<p>Reviewing all my friends, doing the same things\u00a0I did before, and having a lot of fun!! This was one of the most intense days ever&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>LM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I return to a place that touched me so much I normally\u00a0have high expectations regarding everything&#8230;I think it&#8217;s a normal thing but of course a risk since you can frustrate this expectations&#8230;This didn&#8217;t happen in Subotica&#8230; It was amazing:) After presenting Raquel to my friends we went for lunch, a strool and a coffee around the city&#8230; I verified the first change in the city imediately&#8230;4 years ago the first ATM machine was\u00a0installed here&#8230;nowadays&#8230;there are ATM machines in every corner!! The rest&#8230;completely the same, but with the usual commercial interests ahead. New stores, new bars, but everything keeping an old but stylish style! &#8220;Yanko&#8221;, an old friend took some time just to drop by and say hello:) We went to Kristina&#8217;s house to get installed since we were going to sleep there and\u00a0imagine what was the first thing Khristina&#8217;s mum told me when she saw me: &#8211; Lu\u00eds, guitar!!! It&#8217;s incredible how small things are kept in memory:) The night was starting to get colder but we wanted to return to our bar &#8220;Sax&#8221;, to eat Burek, and to feel Subotica like we did before! There are things that doesn&#8217;t change&#8230;When we were drinking the old &#8220;Vinhaq&#8221; on the street before &#8220;SAX&#8221; we were surprised by an old man selling old money bills. When Keba and Steve told him about my &#8220;story&#8221;, the man simply\u00a0offered me an old bill of 100 dinars from the year 1944 while shouting &#8220;Figo&#8221; and &#8220;Ronaldo&#8221; and &#8220;Portugal&#8221;! Only in Serbia:) The rest of the night was incredible!!! We talked, danced, laughed, and in the middle of the night a girl approached me and just said: &#8211; Lu\u00eds,\u00a0I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s you!!! Do you remember me? &#8211; I just said&#8230;please help me!! I can&#8217;t remember:) &#8211; It&#8217;s me, Lidija!! &#8211; No wayyyyyyyyy!:) I can&#8217;t<\/p>\n<a class=\"more-link\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/?p=316\">[Read More...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servia-subotica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/estounanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}