Wednesday 29th October 2014 - Feel all shaky this morning. Think it may be because I didn't have any food for my usual 2am snack time.
Go down for breakfast, don't eat much. Get charged for a second cup of coffee! Give the girl a good tip anyway, as she was really nice and very helpful, reading the menu and all last night.
Stop at shop on way out of town for munchie supplies. Woman doing her shopping gave me a bun!
Also stop at a chemist to see if I can get an inhaler, as the cold air is cutting me. €11 or 80 Kuna, hmmm she took ages looking it up in her book and computer. Don't buy it.
Sunny day and more hills.
Cross border into Serbia. Again uneventful. First village is Nestin.
Stay on the same road all day. Nice quiet country road to begin with.
Pass lots of little villages of farmhouses. See a man standing in a ploughed field. Then he starts running and jumping about. Think he's chasing a mouse!
See a cat curled up on top of a dogs back. At least the dog isn't likely to chase me. Good cat.
Lots of farms, fields and mountains in the hazy distance.
Get a few fleeting glimpses of the river every so often.
Road now begins to get busier at Beocin.
Trucks.
Find a cycle/dirt path that goes under Liberty Bridge, which gets me off the road. Leads on round the river on a quiet road with quite nice riverside houses. See an air plane parked on the water.
Castle comes into view then cycle round under it and cross Varadin Bridge into city centre.
Centre is nice, church with colourful spire and big buildings round the square.
Find hostel after first walking into a restaurant, a travel agency and right into someones house!! All are in the same building. 1400 Serbian Dinar for the night.
Need money as again into a new country with no money. First bank I go into I wait for ages, then the grumpy counter woman points me to another desk - with no one at it. Wait few minutes, another lady comes, types on her computer, ignores me. I walk out.
Find the next bank, change some Euros, but they won't change my Hungarian money.
Day 61 - 29.10.14
Ilok, Croatia to Novi Sad, Serbia
11am to 4pm
3h 00min cycling
48.5km
1375 calories
550 metres asc
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