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Southern Serbia looked beautiful as we powered to the North Macedonia border, where we were slightly stiffed for €50. The border guard didn’t accept our insurance policy as insurance and insisted we bought a green card. We explained that our insurer told us we didn’t need it, but he kept our passports and told us to come back with local insurance. Ian’s haggling was limited. There was a 15-day option for €50 and he asked if there was a one-day pass. There wasn’t. He handed ov

We’d made it to Burgas to pick up Jase. That was checkpoint two, after getting off the ferry. The next step was to hot foot it across Bulgaria and a potentially troublesome border. With Booking.com agreeing to refund our money for the non-existent hotel, our kindly host bade us adieu. It was already hot and due to get hotter. Cranes and potentially vultures provided the entertainment and we sped across the plains of ancient Thrace. Our destination was the historic province’s