External Frontier

Crossing the Serbian border we again leave the EU. We pass a long queue of trucks waiting for the customs. The customs-officers request a road-toll which we should pay cash – either in Euro or in Serbian Dinar. But we just have some Bulgarian Lew. After negotiating with employees of several exchange offices a lady agreed to change the money – we could go...

Megastructure

On our trip we were u.a. in search of once important stops along the major traffic-corridors. So we were very much attracted by this roof construction on our way from Sofia to the Serbian border. But it turned out that this was a misinterpretation and the complex was an abandoned military...

Ilyantsi Market

… is the largest open-air and partly indoor market in the north-west of Sofia. Serbs told us, that during the period of international embargo against Serbia this market was made especially to serve their needs. The embargo is over since a long time. But the market surprisingly it still exists, it is even upgraded with the Carrefour...