did not lock, and dead dogs roamed
We left croatia the 24th to start our downward journey to Greece. Our first stop being Belgrade, Serbia. Well Serbia isn't exactly my favorite, it has it's charm in that terrifying way. Luckily our hostel was right across the street from the train station so we booked it over there only to have to climb six flights of stairs in the dark. We burst through our hostel door half expecting to just turn around and leave but it was very quaint and the girl who checked us in was super friendly bringing us juice and a fan to our room for us. We built up some courage to head back downstairs to get food before dark but on the second floor our path was blocked by a dog lying across the bottom of the stairs and fearing it might bite or attack us if we disturbed it we tried whistling to get it to move but it didn't budge. We tried getting it to move for a while longer but it seemed to be dead and I'm not sure which one was worse but we headed back to the comfort of our room. Our hunger won in the end though so we made one more attempt to get down stairs and this time the dog was gone. We found a restaurant around the corner literally swallowed our food whole and headed back to the hostel for the night. On our way back up the stairs to the hostel the dog was back but I was NOT going to be stuck on the wrong side of our room so while dishing out compliments to the possibly dead dog I made a beeline past it. We have until four o'clock tomorrow evening before our bus out of here but check out is at eleven so hopefully the nice girl at reception will let us stick around til later. The next morning we hid away in the hostel as long as we could then decided we'd better go get the bus thing figured out since no one understands us. It was good we did because it took a good hour to even find the bus station and to get someone who knew where we were trying to go. With our tickets ready we thought we would quickly eat at the same place as last night then head back to the hostel to grab our things and go. Well our plans never seem to go accordingly, I had ordered chicken stuffed with cream cheese and the chicken was raw when i got it so it took an hour and a half to get it recooked, not the fast meal we thought we'd have. So we had to rush to the hostel grab our things and run for the bus. We caught the bus and boy was that another experience! It was packed to the max with mo air conditioning and to make matters even more fun we had no idea where to get off. We had asked the girl when we bought our tickets and she said she thought the bus stopped right outside the station but as time ticked by on the bus I thought I'd be on the safe side and ask again and luckily enough as i asked we stopped and we were quickly ushered off the bus. We didn't know where to go though since it wasn't in front of the train like we'd thought, it was on the side of the highway. Some guy also got off the bus so we followed him but he was taking his jolly old time so we went ahead and asked two men (who happened to look exactly like Mario and Luigi) walking down the street, they pointed us in the right direction and we made it to the train just in time to start boarding. Turns out Mario and Luigi were our ticket collection guys on the train so they were happy to see we'd found our way with their help. On to Romania!
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