Getting to Craiova

Before leaving Belgrade i used couchsurfing to find some hosts in Craiova. So my goal for today, after one day of crappy hitchhiking out of Belgrade (late departure, around 3-4 pm and little distance, about 100kms) is to reach that city. As usual after a night outside, i wake up early, about 5am and get on the road to see the sunrise over the opened, empty road.

Damn Dogs

I discover where the noise this night came from, there is a landfill some 500 m from there and dogs are running all over the place. I also see there is a gas station 1km away... good at last i will get some water this morning. The gas station is really 3 km away so i kick of the day with a long mystical walk in the dawn.

Mystical Dawn

I then get picked up by a Romanian driving home from Italy with his sister. And guess where Emil is driving? Craiova of course! This drive is one of the most beautiful landscape so far, along the Danube, we pass the iron gates, a face sculpted into the rock and very wide portions of the Danube before getting to the boarder.

Comfortable mercedes Ride :)

Danube scenery

At the boarder, i get asked for that white paper you get in Serbia after checking in with the police You are supposed to check in and out every time you change the place you are living. Very annoying... Fortunately they gave me this paper at the youth hostel.

Romania trains

After a lunch break, we arrive in Craiova where my diver and his sister who have been awake for the past 18 hours or so get the rest they deserved while I go out to meet my host, Guillaume.