Sweltering in Serbia

Very hot here in Serbia and fortunately the campsite has wifi so I can blog and bore you all.

7am start was not early enough. It hit 33 degrees at some point today.

I had a ferry across the Danube River before filling the tank and drinking lots of (crap) coffee before the Serbian border to use up my Hungarian Forint.

The border crossing was almost disappointingly easy. Passport and V5 to get out of Hungary and Passport to get into Serbia. They had no interest in my bike's paperwork which I had all in order and was ready to impress them with.

As the heat cranked up I realised that Serbia (or at least the north part) was missing any features. It was hours and hours of straight flat roads through farmland interspersed with some towns and cities. There were very few bends and those there were, had rail tracks accross them and bloody great pot holes.

After a few hours (and with a maximum speed limit of 80kph) I realised that I was stuck to my kevlar jean's which were in turn stuck to my seat. I decided not to stop as I would not want to get going again so continued for 4.5 hours (at these low speeds the fuel economy is very good so didn't even need fuel) to my campsite for the night about 15km from the Romanina border. I have had a swim in the lake already and may pop back in later for another.

The tiger today has just purred and I am hoping Romania will allow it to roar.