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Pre 22 godine iy Nisa sam dobila na poklon stihove pesme...in Kazandžijsko sokače (Coppersmith's Alley)
Najbolja jagnjetina u gradu, uz Bovinovu tamjaniku -...in Mali podrum (English explanation or translation: Small Basement)
Totalni neprofesionalizam,već drugi put ,iako sam...in Оrač (English explanation or translation: The Plowman)
Pa jel ima salata il nema?! Samo dunja i kisela?in Kod Šipe-Kamenički vis (At Šipa's-Kamenički vis Resort)
Haaahhha. I'm not too bright today. Great post!in Оrač (English explanation or translation: The Plowman)
Interesting facts
Stara Palanka, a Small Village but a Lot of Kafanas
Stara Palanka, a village with roughly 20 homes and about the same number of residents, has 5 kafanas!!! What is more interesting is the fact that all of them are doing great, both in the winter and in the summer. The oldest kafana in Stara Palanka is 'Kod Djele' ('At Djela's') which was opened...
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Kafana Life in Niš
"Coffee! Here you go!" (although the latter would sound something like "Na!" in Serbian, pronounced as spelled, and used when the Serbs want to express their anger unwillingly giving somebody what he/she asked for) - my mother would say putting a cup of coffee for sobering up...
A Niš's Bohemian
AVDA ZEKIĆ, the famous Niš's bohemian and drunkard, born at the beginning of the 30's of the 20th century in Niš, in a part of the town called Čair. He was a house painter by profession, but not rarely was he to put aside his job for 'kafančenje' (this is a Serbian term used when referring to going to a kafana, eating, singing and getting drunk all night long). Even though he loved to spend a lot of time in kafanas and to drink with anyone willing to pay him that drink, he wasn't a usual 'birtijaš' (also a Serbian term used to refer to somebody who visits nondescript kafanas full of smoke, rakija-Serbian brandy- is the main choice of drink, guests present are mostly alcoholics, and if there is any kind of band-music usually sucks) as the ones you can often see in Niš's kafanas today.
Avda Zekić was always elegantly dressed, wearing a suit's jacket and a shirt both it the summer and in the winter, mainly speaking in old Niš's dialect, throwing in a few Gypsy words from time to time. Although he was a Gypsy, he rarely hanged out with the Gypsies, he used to say: 'Thank God I'm a Gypsy when I'm not a peasant.' He classified bohemians into those who have the money and those whose drinks are paid by the ones with the money. Non-bohemians were classified into good and bad people.
He could mostly be seen in "Galija" ("Galley"), "Stara Srbija" ("Old Serbia"), "Atina" ("Athens"), "Kalča", "Marger", "Leskovac"... He rarely drank wine or beer, mainly rakija, and he almost never ate except for pumpkin seeds and chickpeas. He loved to introduce himself as "Avda Zekić-a Spanish actor from Leibzig", even though he never left Niš to travel except when he went to serve the army. Being a good-humoured and merry man, Niš's bohemians or other citizens of Niš were always glad to see him.
Niš's playwright Pavle Lalović wrote a drama using the motives of Avda's life "Pali anđeli" ("Fallen Angels" in English") which was played for some time on the small stage of the Niš's National Theatre, and in 1995. he published a book named "Avda Zekić- a Spanish actor from Leibzig".
02.07.2008.
