Day 21. Serbia

 Ash emailed me last night saying he's had enough of my raving about the good weather. Well Ash, this'll make you happy, woke up to a wet day ,temperature has plummeted to 24 c, and to top it off , a flat tyre

Nicole, the owner, made us a nice breakfast even though it wasn't included . Nicole is Serbian and she explained how difficult it is for a Serb to survive on this side of the border, the open distrust and hostile prejudice . A bit like being a real estate agent in NZ I guess. 

  The cemetery on the way out of town had 3 stalls selling artificial flowers. Fairly typical of Eastern Europe .  Tacky ?

More bad news, this stretch to Ilok was up and down with a HEAD WIND

Until this strange cloud went across us and the wind stopped then came in strong from behind. Yay!

  Because they use so much wood in winter there are always people moving it around

And every house seems to have a corn store like this 

The councils here can't be accused of not supplying amenities. Out side the bar this chap shows me the bottle opener wired to the tree.

At Ilok we used up the last of our Croation Duna on bread then crossed the river into Serbia

It was a short ride into Backa Palanka, where we met yet ANOTHER Frenchman heading for Constanza

This is Jean Marie , we went to the bank together and drew out Serbian Dunar. No coins here, even 10cents is a note. We still can't find a tourist info center where we can find a cycle map.

  Now this'll make Ash happy, we thought we'd make the next village for the night but half way there the sky's opened up and we just made this fruit stall

Luckily, the farm house next door was advertising a room so we went in. An old man came to the door in his undies and proudly showed us the house we could have. Oh Boy, smelt like no one had been in there for a year. Trail boss gave it the thumbs down so we took to the road again, wet as ducks and made it to Backi Petrovac, 8kms further on. It's called the Oasis and it's wonderful