�There are many fine restaurants offering great value when compared to other European countries. Local specialities include fish, stews, grilled meats, fine cheeses and vegetables. As a special treat dine in a Salas near Novi Sad where you can enjoy local produce, traditionally cooked and presented in delightful rural surroundings and often accompanied by the sounds of tamburitza music. The gourmet traveller will not be disappointed in Serbia.

Wine growing has been popular in the country since Roman times and the main varieties come from Plenac, Fruska Gora, Vrsac and Palic regions. Tours of family-owned wine estates are possible but this is wine making as it used to be with grapes from old family root stock, and in these days of mass production the good old fashioned basics of barrels, bottles and corks are the norm.

Visitors to Serbia looking for traditional crafts tend to bring home embroidered table linens, colourful ceramics, paintings and local wines. In the larger cities, particularly Belgrade, the main shopping district offers fabulous places to shop for the latest fashions and labels.

Belgrade is becoming one of the liveliest cities in Eastern Europe for nightlife and has quickly built a considerable reputation for late night revelry in exceptional clubs and bars, some of them in boats along the Danube or within historic buildings – it truly is a city that never sleeps.

Driving in Serbia is easy as a motorway runs from the northern border with Hungary through the major cities and towns of Novi Sad, Belgrade, Kragujevac and Nis all the way down to the southeast corner of the country close to the Bulgarian border.