Guestbook

The Guca festival has been on my wish list of places to visit for some time, and I was glad to be able to make it happen this year. Kudos to Dejan and Natasa for their planning. Our room in Guca was quite adequate, and the hosts most friendly. Natasa was most helpful in keeping up with my flurry of emails containing all sorts of questions regarding planning for our visit. As we had never been in Serbia prior to this, I really appreciated her taking the time to answer. We enjoyed the festival, but became somewhat disenchanted with the street noise and drunk people after a couple of days. The street booths selling cds and playing loud recorded music were particularly annoying. Ditto the bars doing the same. With all of the brass bands roaming through town, why does a bar feel the need to play loud recorded music? I don't get it. We attended in order to listen to the bands, and enjoyed that aspect of the festival. The Sargan8 day trip turned out to be a very nice respite from the crowds and cacophany of Guca and we were happy to take part in the train ride. Well organized. We did not participate in the Monasteries tour, but heard nice things about it. Our only complaint would be the long bus ride from Belgrade to Guca with a lack of air condition- ing in the minibus. It was beastly warm in the front seat of the bus heading to Guca in the hot sun. Departure from St Marks seems logical, and the church is easy to access via trams. I'm wondering if the central train station might also be a good choice as the airport minibus A1 stops there? Again, thanks Guca crew for all your hard work.