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I didn't have to come far into Serbia to see horse-drawn carts. There were several in the first vill...
I didn't have to come far into Serbia to see horse-drawn carts. There were several in the first village, Bogojevo. They came as a bit of a shock. I'm surprised at how big a difference is between here and Croatia, just across the river, when for a long time, they were part of the same country.

Alarmingly, I've just noticed that although my passport has a stamp from the Croatian side of the border there's no Serbian entry stamp. I should have checked at the time but I'm afraid I was worrying about customs declarations, chaging money and trying to look at the cycle route signs at the same time. I don't know how the guard could have forgotten though when that's what his job is meant to be. He was flapping the stamp around in his hand when I rode up to him. He read my passport, saw that I was born in Wolverhampton and started going on about some Serbian who plays for Wolverhampton Wanderers football team. Then he went into his office, came back, asked me a few questions about where I was going, handed my passport back and sent me on to the customs desk. The Foreign & Commonwealth Office website says a few times that you must get an entry stamp as there can be a heavy fine or a prison sentence for people who try to leave the country without one. It's possible that that's just the FCO making a lot of fuss about nothing because they also said I would have to declare my computer, which the customs woman said wasn't necessary, and that you should carry your passport at all times, which is impossible because hotels normally keep them. I am a bit worried though. I would rather not be arrested next week because the guard here was more interested in talking about football than in doing his job. I did consider going back to the border to try to get a stamp but by the time I got there, it would be at least half an hour since I had originally crossed the border and I though it might look pretty suspicious if I turned up from inside the country asking for a stamp. I'm in Serbia illegally now and there's nothing I can do about that.


UTC Time: 10:33, Thursday 18 June 2009
Local Time: 12:33, Thursday 18 June 2009
Estimate of longitude: 19° 7' 48.97" E = 19.130269°
Estimate of latitude: 45° 31' 48.03" N = 45.530007°
Possible error on position estimate: 20 metres