LONDON -- It's not as much a vacation as it is a pilgrimage.
I haven't been back to Serbia in more than 20 years. My son, Marko, just turned 18, and he's never been there at all. We'd hoped to this in 2020, but the pandemic knocked that out. So here we are, in England, on our way to Belgrade, the brilliant capital of my ancestral homeland, to finally, finally do this right.
Bit of a backstory ...
I'm born and raised in Pittsburgh. My late father, Milan, was an ambassador for the former Yugoslavia, and he was assigned to the Downtown Pittsburgh consulate on Stanwix Street.