Nais Nis
Autoput bb Nis, Serbia and Montenegro
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Scary...
... hand my passport to a couple of people, have it stamped and be asked where I came from before the people moved on to the next cabin.
Not long after this, however, before we left the border area, things began to get interested, as a young Serbian man came and sat in the carriage. Something about him seemed shady and he immediately started talking to me at an unbelievable pace when he identified I was English. He was friendly, but also at times could ...
Falling in love with Montinegro
... old town with fortress walls all the way up the sheer mountain behind. I thought that i had better take a day off to explore as this looked like my kind of place. I was delighted as I woke to beautiful sunny weather the next day. I decided to go do the touristy thing and pay the €2 to climb up the fortress (this was more in my budget than the €10 they wanted in Dubrovnik). I set off and was slightly disappointed to find out that the small cruise ship docked in the bay ...
Blissful day off!
... After much discussion one of them got on his bike and the only one that spoke English said we should follow him, which we did. First stop was a bike shop which redirected us and our guide to a welders to fix the front fork. The welder wasn't there, but our helpful guide said we should go back in an hour. Mikey left me reading and drinking another latte while he went back to the bike shop so that he could sort mud guards and more ...
Arriving in the dark
... was ridiculously steep and involved 10 miles across a big valley some of which was rutted cart road. it was interesting though, and cycling up the hill through farm houses where people clearly don't very see cyclists was great. Past the houses however we still couldn't see any signs and were losing confidence in the man's advice. The only person we passed was a VERY old lady carrying a bundle of sticks as big as herself, so we didn't feel we could bother ...
Nish to be here
... walk to our lateroom.com booking at the Yugoslav relic that is the Ambassador - for cheaper than our hostel in Belgrade, we had a private, ensuite room in a prime location. Place was a bit stale and living in the past, but it had a kind of faded charm, bit like Nis itself.
Nis would not be high on my list of must-sees, but it was a decent stopover. We chilled out with our illnesses
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