Heading west, to Serbia

We are on our way west, to Serbia. We stopped to get gas and a snack and I found this woman selling onions, garlic and chili and some pickled stuff or jam or whatever it was in her jars. Again these friendly people start talking to you and you don’t understand a single word! But we both laughed and I think she thought we were from “anglia”, and I just nodded my head. She was very sweet and waved to us when we took off on our bikes.

Opposite the onion woman

Serbia. After showing our passports twice, the green card once (when entering Serbia) we were here. Didn’t take much time at all. I’m glad I’m not a truck driver though – the never ending line of trucks on the Bulgarian side of the border that we passed must take days for to get in to the country.

Serbia. The roads were just fine here so far. On the Bulgarian side before getting to Sofia the highway was pretty bumpy.

An 8 km drive along this ravine was spectacular and with beautiful scenery. It was soon getting dark and we were almost in Nis when this picture was taken. Doug called his Serbian friend Ica earlier today and we were invited to his place in Nis where he lives with his family and runs an auto repair shop. We really appreciate Doug’s advice, and Ica’s hospitality! We were invited for dinner but first we were offered his own delicious plum rakia and some turkish coffee. More about that later.
We do think his name is little funny though – ICA is actually the name of one of the largest food chains in Sweden! 🙂
//T.

What a great weekend! Horizons unlimited meeting is over.

Left Idilevo Moto camp today, monday around lunch time that is. We’ve had such great time at Doug and Pollys moto camp and just hate to leave. The sun is still shining as every day so far and it’s still around 27-30 degrees. We’ve met all these wonderful people that Jan knew most of from before when he was here with his girlfriend last year but are all new to me; Doug the motorbike globetrotter and his lovely girlfriend Polly, Terry the english guy, Andy and Debbie who sold their house in rainy Britain and moved to Bulgaria, happy Janos from Hungary with his Rakia in an olive oil bottle (very dangerous drink), David who lives in Turkey, Adrian and Oana from Bucharest, Pollys brother Ivo, Dimitry from Moscow that actually has a few friends in common with me, the unicycle guy plus all the other nice people from different countries that we met during these days. Most of all thank’s to Doug and Polly that you’ve created this place with this lovely atmosphere and nice and interesting people. Hope to meet you all again some day!

Doug + Jan

The camp

Ivo, Polys brother who also works at the camp.

Adrian + Oana from Bucharest, very nice couple.

Dimitry from Moscow that runs a motorcycle magazine and is a photographer talking to Terry from England

Convertible trousers…

The french guy on his unicycle plans to be in Bucharest in 5 days. It’s a 2 hours drive with a normal bike! – that has an engine 🙂

Harley the dog is also amazed – or confused…

Cool guy on cool bike 😉

A happy local. All locals seemed happy and waved to us and some of the babas told us long stories and laughed and seemed very amuzed. We didn’t understand a single word, but a big smile and a laugh back is also an answer 🙂

Happy Jan

Happy puppies, and very cute too.

Jan and Debbie

Andy, Terry and David

One of Dougs toys

It’s a Fiat!?

Polish shower 🙂 A bucket of cold water with the pants on, hmm..

Polly, Bobby (the Cat), David and Doug

Cows showed up all of a sudden, and their “shepherd” 🙂

One of the polish guys off road bikes

Off road dirt

Local beer

So cute this cat.

Bicycle burn out

This is just so funny, we had many good laughs at the moto camp. Thank’s Dimitry for sharing 🙂