Serbia – cool country

24th June 2009 18:29 Michal, Petr


Hello!

We are just being in Nis in Serbia, this is the first time when we are writing from an internet cafe.

On Monday early in the morning we started out from Brno towards Hungary. Although it was raining all the way, we did not care because we were comfortably going by a car that was loaded on a car transporter. After the driver smuggled us over the Hungarian frontier, we got not far from Budapest – to a Turkish truck parking place near Keckemet. After a day spent by convincing individual drivers (without any success – everyone just explained us kindly the way to Turkey) we slept over in the bus stop and early in the morning we decided to hitchhike on our own… So we reached Keckemet by bus :) Then we managed to get to Serbian frontier (a kind English-speaking Hungarian couple gave us a lift).

We walked over the frontier and met a German guy, whose name was Franc. He travelled alone, by hitchhiking… without any food but with a plan to travel trough all Serbia.

When we started to hitchhike behind the frontiers, in the mist occured local Romany who offered us willingly a lift to Beograd…for only 50 Euro. We bargained this amount to 10 Euro and set forward with him to alleged near village where his car was said to be situated. All the way he repeated: „Me good, little distance, give Euro.“ After he has learned from us where our cell phones are hidden, whether we have more money and where our passports are, he told us that we would go by train because he had no gas, however that he was a good man and was going to buy us the tickets… He did this indeed but the tickets were only valid to the nearest village (for 2 Euro, he wanted 10). But we are not as stupid so we asked the engine-driver who explained us the situation. The Romany lost 2 Euro and even he was not able to counteract.

We came to a road and an Italian gave us a lift to Beograd… There we were looking for the way out of the city (towards the city Nis) all the day. We found it, passed the night between panel houses and in the morning started to hitchhike. After four hours we gave it up, went by public transport back to the downtown and bought tickets to Nis for 1640 RSD.

So we are here now. But we are going to get further today.

By the way, it is raining here all the time but a scout boy is waterproof, isn´t he?

Serbian people are throughout nice, mostly they speak English and are always heplful… However, they do not react to hitchhiking…grrr.

Hojas lofaz :)