Serbia

This was the toughest leg on our Inter Rail 1981 tour. The train from Greece was packed and, thus, Braz & I stood for 48 hours in a 1 metre square area in the train corridor. We jumped out in Belgrade for our sanity. My first visit to a communist country and the impressions were negative. An international incident was avoided in the station waiting room. We were unrolling our sleeping bags ready to kip in the warm room when a local advised us not to. Minutes later an armed female guard made an inspection and hit a person with a truncheon because he was asleep in the chair. I think we would have been shot. With visas in hand we headed for Hungary.

The lads left Slovakia by train, we seperated in Budapest and I took the bus to Novi Sad. To my surprise it was a cycling city and I enjoyed exploring via bike. I then moved onto Belgrade where I stayed with Rachel and Fabio. I was wondefully entertained. A noticeable feaure of the city was a strong anti-Amercian sentiment due to their bombing of Belgrade in the 90's. I then flow to Romania to reunite with the lads.