Passing through Serbia

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Saturday 01.08.87
Departure from Ljubljana to 8th Fog are in the first stage of the journey that we slow down the pace. Let Zagreb and Belgrade, where we do the full. Towards evening we arrived in Nis have to sleep and wait for the morning to continue doing diesel.
On the road caravans are many Polish and Yugoslav police calls continuously records Poles. It's 21.30. Most traffic was' directly after Nis towards Sofia. The traffic is made up primarily of Turks who returned home from Germany loaded with everything, the cars are overloaded and the edges of the transformed in bivouac where they eat, pray and sleep on mats on the floor or simple plastic bags. For highway spending about 8000 dyn, almost all the din that we had. Inflation is very high.
Arrive in Nis.
The city is famous more than anything else known because of the intersection of roads comunnicazioni for Greece and Bulgaria, is a major industrial center and is home to the University. Despite being best known for its economic role has, in fact, an ancient history. E 'was founded, in fact, under the name Naissus in 180 AD and is studied at school because its walls under the Emperor Claudius II won the Goths in battle sanguinosissima. Also in this city was born the Emperor Constantine. It was then destroyed by the Huns in 441 and rebuilt by Justinian in 550, which was able to reject the attack Slav. Finally taken by the Turks in 1454 which remained until 1877. The city, then loads of history and record of all the peoples of the conquered by force.
Worthy of note are:
- Tvrdjava: that is the fortress built by the Turks, fulcrum for the road to Istanbul.
- Arheološki Muzej: contains material from the Iron Age to the Byzantine
- City of Roman Median (with the villa of Constantine)

Sunday 02.08.87
Leaving from Nis to 7th While we sleep, my father began to take the autosdrada until the first stop to refuel diesel. Let arrived from Skopje and the Greek customs are several code. We can only pass customs at 11.30. Lunch and change U.S. dollars into drachmas. Upon Salonnicco remake of the full and to arrive 16 Nea Potidea where we stop to sleep in the camper from the beach and promenade. The beach and the sea are beautiful. The navigation channel is an island of Kassandra.