Day 9 (Belgrade)

Yay...at long, long last we got a stamp in our passport today as we crossed the Hungary/Serbia border! We've absolutely flown through Europe with no stops at any borders so far, so no new stamps for my shiny new passport..until now! It's been a good day :)

Having left Budapest around 8.30am this morning we got to the hostel in Belgrade shortly after 3pm but had to wait around in the rain while Kim sorted out a technical issue (rumour was they had no record of our booking and so to fit us in they had to move some people out of the rooms they were in, and also set the boys up with a room in a completely different hostel). Loonie and I headed off with a few of the group in search of a shop to pick up something for dinner. We had bought some spelt in Budapest so the plan was to get something to go with that – we ended up with chicken, peppers, onions, tomatoes, garlic and a pesto type sauce mixed in with our Hungarian spelt. Not exactly local cuisine here in Serbia I'm guessing, but we're trying to make up for overspending pretty much every day so far by cutting back on spending today.

After eating we headed out for a wander around the city in search of some postcards for those who have been promised a card from every country. The only thing that might have worked was a card from some seriously religious shop we found but since it didn't have anything about Serbia on it and we weren't sure what exactly the picture on the front represented we left it and kept looking in the rain. It was nice to get out for a walk and was great to see a bit of Belgrade, but unfortunately we didn't succeed in finding any cards..maybe where we stop for lunch tomorrow will have something..but we've spent all our funny money already so that might not even work out :(

As we're only here for a single night and were only out and about for an hour or so, we don't have any photos to share...we'll try harder in Bulgaria over the next two days.