Belgrade

Woke up this morning expecting a pretty average day with nothing much to write about due to the fact we had a 10 hour train journey to Belgrade ahead of us, but boy was I wrong! On our way to the post office and shops we came across a cat sleeping on the street, but as we got closer we realised the cat was in fact dead, which was pretty disgusting.

Once we boarded the train all sorts of events unfolded. It started off with some Serbian nutter threatening us with some sharp tool for trying to get to the seats in our carriage that we had reserved. This left us sitting at the back of the train on our bags while some psychopath and his friend occupied our seats. This wasn't to be the only terrible moment on the train, I later had some drunk Serb couple enquire to whether or not I'd have sex with there friend, which would've been alright had it not been a dude! So now absolutely petrified, I was almost going to go back to the carriage and risk my luck demanding to seat next to the nutter with the blade, rather than be harrassed by these perverts! However that was not to be the end of the train excitement, a fat middle aged man pulled open the back door of the train, while it was in motion, and clambered out in order to get the boxes of fireworks he had stashed on some part of the outside of the train. After watching in shock, we finally managed to get seats after a whole load of Serbs got off the train once we'd crossed the Bulgarian-Serb border. The remainder of the journey was in comparison very quiet.

This evening we arrived in Belgrade after 9pm and after finding our hostel on Gavrila Principa street, we went out for something to eat and then wandered around the city for a while, seeing one or two impressive buildings in the Serb capital. Tomorrow we are up bright and early to catch what I hope will be our last train, at 7.30am to Budapest, which will be our final destination before returning back to Glasgow. It's another extremely long train journey tomorrow, but I'm hoping for it to be slightly less eventful and hopefully more relaxing before what should be a good couple of days in Budapest before returning back to dear old blighty.

-Steven