Packing for these two places was interesting as Serbia is a dry, but very hot at the end of August and Iceland can be anywhere from sunshine and 20 degrees to snowing with 60 km/h winds, try to pack light with that. We managed to get everything into two backpacks with the exception of the luggage Milos's mom sent us to bring to his aunts. Luckily we could leave that in Serbia and didn't have to take it with us while we were actually backpacking. The total trip flying would be Toronto-Rome-Belgrade, then Belgrade-Belgium for a night-Iceland.
The original plan was to head straight to Iceland but in order to keep all the flights under $1500 we booked each flights individually and the one between Belgrade and Belgium was cancelled and after some arguing on the phone and $100 we got another flight the day before giving us one less day in Serbia and an overnight in Belgium. (Never use JAT Airways).
We were not off to a good start as we were unexpectedly charge $100 for our second piece of luggage, and after being asked to be seated together we were sat in two separate parts of the plan. The plane was pretty empty at the back so we were able to move together right after take off. We landed in Rome around 1, grabbing out luggage and getting some lunch before we we boarded for Belgrade. Customs was a breeze and we were happily greeted by Milos's aunt and Uncle who I think barely recognized him. We packed it all into the tiny Euro cars with no seat belts or air conditioning and were off north to Zrenjanin.
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| Branka and Milos |
We arrive at Milo's Buba's (Grandmothers) house, and were welcomes by her and Milo's two younger cousins. He hadn't seen them for 15 years so everyone was pretty excited. Dinner was prepared, fresh veggies from the garden and goat! I should have seen the foresight into the amount of meat I would be consuming over the next week.
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| Buba (and her crocks!) |
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