Novi Sad, Serbia: Albert Einstein and Monica Seles

Novi Sad (Serbia) is a pleasant city, the second largest in Serbia, behind Belgrade, but much lower key with a spectacular fort and wide pedestrian streets, where the shopping is promising, if the excitement of the female sector of our walking tour is any indication  (and their disappointment at not having time to shop.)

It is flat, making it ideal for bike transportation. It is home to the Serbian tennis player, Monica Seles, and where Albert Einstein's first wife,  Mileva Marić, was from. Einstein lived here from 1905-1907, and worked on relativity with Mileva, who was a mathematician.

Me window shopping, for electronic gadgets:

Town hall square:

Orthodox Cathedral:

Religious practices in the cathedral were idiosyncratic, to my eye. Women faced the virgin Mary, while men faced Christ when saying their prayers. They ate small morsels of bread in the church.  There are no seats, except for a few for old people around the edges, much like mosques in Islam. There is no organ, and the only music would be choir singing. People crossed themselves using there fingers, and did it in a n-s-e-w pattern, kissing pictures of biblical p characters. These differences seem incapable of sparking splits in the christian community I recall happening. That's religion.