Budapest Belgrade, So SCARY, Seems like war
From A trip around Europe in Belgrade, Serbia on Sep 26 '06
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So we took the train to go to Belgrade, and we had the most scary moment of our travel. We waited for the train to arrive in Budapest station. It was around 23h and you can imagine in this kind of station at this hour how can it look like. SCARY. The train arrive with 1h30 of delay. We got inside and we were lucky to find a compartment empty. We closed the curtains and switched oof the light to be sure that nobody get inside and ask to sit down with us.
THe train started to leave and we find out to put our seat as it looked like camping bed (see pictures). So we started to sleep. The train made a bit of noise but it was ok. But at 2 oclock in the morning, we heard somebody shouting, somebody opened the door and shout "PASSPORT". I jumped out of the bed and i was really scared. I took my identity card and Fran his passport. When I showed my identity card, the guy said "NO I WANT YOUR PASSPORT" still shouting. I said scaried that it is a EUropean I identity card (i thought it was available for Serbia) and he answered "NO I WANT YOUR PASSPORT NOW". I jumped on my bag to find my passport and I show him it. I was so scared. It was like that 4 time during the travel every 1 or 2 hours. (for the passport and the ticket). At 6 oclock we arrived in the surrounding of BElgrade and a group of 10 guys (looked like they were workers) got into the train in the compartment next to ours. (some of them looked inside ou r compartment. I was so scared, I was maybe the only women in all the train. I said it Fran ,this is the war, we are going to die. THe group of guys started to converse. But this kind of people doesnot speak, they shout. SO we could not sleep anymore (see pictures). So I decided to woke up and to have a l ook outside. I looked behind the windows, and i was more scared yet. THere were the trains of the second war where they used to close juives people in there. I think they gave these trains to the poor countries. SO we arrived at Belgrado and It was not finish. THe station looked really scary, grey, dirty... We bought our ticket to go to Tessaloniki on the night and we left our luggage to the consigment. We went for a walk and to take a breakfast and all the people were poor and not really clean. We were a bit scared still but maybe because of our ignorance. We walked through Belgrade all the day and I did not like at all. There was nothing to see. We were relaly bored. THe only good thing we found was in a cofee, a cofee with caramel. It was really sweet and good. Another anecdot. We went to a supermarket, to buy some food and Fran took some pictures of the olive oil. THe security guard came to him and said that it is forbidden that he can't take pictures without authorization, that he will have to take the camara. We had a little argument with him. It is funny, they think that maybe they are still in the war (their eyes look like they are still scared i am not joking). I dont know it is just a small supermarket and they act like they are Harrods or Lafayette. We came back to the station and took the train to Tessaloniki on the night
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