New Year’s Eve 2011 – on bicycles

Many more people had wanted to come, but when they realised that at –8 °C they might keel over like those legendary fainting penguins, they changed their minds after all. And so, in the end, only the three of us remained: my pal Sneki (a.k.a. the woman with a PhD), comrade Dr., and little old me. Around 11 p.m., cycling and jogging through Belgrade’s surprisingly busy streets, we arrived in front of the National Assembly building — just as Bajaga’s concert was starting. Sure, both young and old claim him equally these days, but if we’re honest, *Pozitivna geografija* marked...