EUROVELO 13 – Ep1- Romania to Turkey series starts here! ○ Drobeta Turnu, Romania to Pirot, Serbia

THIS EPISODE (We leave the Eurovelo 6 to join EV13!)
We leave Drobeta Turnu Severin, Romania, and head over the border to Negotin in Serbia, home to our fave accommodation yet. So good that we stayed for another night and had a recovery/admin day off! From here we cycled to Zajecar via forgotten in time little villages with zero places to eat. Then we tackled the toughest cycling conditions of the entire cycle tour en route to Knjazevac, mostly off road and very hilly. Plus with a slight hangover…
From here it was a beautiful smooth ride mostly downhill to Pirot, our last night in Serbia before Bulgaria.

DETAILS
Drobeta Turnu Severin (Rom) – Hotel Corona €35 bb (treat night!) 8 – excellent but bad breakfast
Negotin (Serbia) – Campsite for Cyclists and Adventurers (we stayed in one of their studio rooms with kitchen) – €16 no bb -10. Simply the best. Hospitality was unreal, great value, free tennis!
Zajecar – Hotel Serbija – €23 bb – 7. Very run down rooms but great restaurant and food although too many smokers at breakfast and dinner.
Knjazevac – Hotel Timock bb – €26 bb – 7. Clean tidy quiet room, bad breakfast. Forgetful, good for a big rest which was needed…!
Pirot- Booking.com apartment with kitchen €20 – 5/10 – only a hob, no other kitchen appliances i.e kettle!
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Day 71 from Romania had a great night’s sleep here at the hotel Corona really recommend the hotels really clean it was great to have shells without spiders in for once I was very happy about that So we’re back in Serbia now we’re carrying on into the basically interview unknown and up into hello Hello hello we are just in downtown negative it’s got loads of bars and restaurants and cafes when I say load it took like three or four got really nice and still hostel / campus like such house homestay sorta got boss hasn’t gonna cook amazing meal tonight we’re gonna have burgers and

That doesn’t sound that amazing but to be able to do that is quite quite exciting I really want to do something like that which is basically an old bicycle turned into a flower pot stand house no so key things will be really natural I was having fun this is houses favorite party day

So day 72 and it’s already nighttime have done any other videos because we have been inside all day we played tennis at lunchtime but this hostel guesthouse hotel place is so nice and they were so friendly even gave us some cake and made us tea gave us some free

Wine local wine so we thought we’d just hang around for a day we needed a rest day and I’m really behind in my editing house it was institutions logging so we had a really really productive day today and rested my hammies which we saw cats to helping us get them ready today as

We’re about to leave nicotine and head – zecko car good jump get him oh so fun hello yes I have the most agile cats get rid of the big spiky things in your tire that’s never a good thing so whilst I was just getting rid of the big spike

Things in attire and I thought I just introduced today if they all I’m not sure what the heat is today I think it’s 73 we had a day off yesterday and in Nagle ttan Nova ting is by far our favorite place in Serbia even after Belgrade without Belgrade it was just so

Such a friendly local village really homely and I’ll get our hosts bojam in the the guesthouse we stayed in just couldn’t have been more friendly more helpful more homely spoke great English as well better than me that’s for sure and he just make us made us feel really

At home and we haven’t had that for quite a while just sort of stopped off at this graveyards waifus practice go by this ancient old tractor classic basically it says 1948 to 20 it’s all net so I think it’s really nice I think they also you can reopen this and then

Pour odd vodka when she eventually leaves us no just engrave the date on it so it’s a bit it’s a bit ominous and it’s a bit bit scary to know that’s where I’m gonna stay for the rest of my life well when I’m not hello yeah I guess

They buy a family plot yeah which was very interesting very different than the rest of the Western world that’s for sure as you can see lot of roads now road signs are either in Cyrillic or if you read it I mean it’s Herbie high-heel Kobo say Excitingly and interestingly this is the first time we’ve seen the uruvela six split from the Euro 13 solely over six is going to go back that away and the 13 is going this way south which is we’re winning so we’re now about 38 KS from Zija cough and we’re gonna stop for

Lunch shortly just give an update on the Ravello 13 road that they’ve chosen to select really quite a haven’t seen cars for a long time but the goings really slow it’s really very poor ashphalt there’s your tractor series and pop and Matt it’s okay this is quite slow going

But I’d rather it be a bit slow and bumpy then on the main roads of all the big big lorries that we had coming out of Belgrade and through a lot of hungry I was just racing down this hill and then a roadblock load of sheep and also a pig looks like the pigs taking the Sheep out for a walk we’ve been going up since about 11 a.m. and it’s now 2:00 p.m. we still haven’t found any shops or restaurants or cats

Or anything so we’re a bit hungry we’re living off jaffa cakes and these coconut biscuits which were amazing mr. Eisen’s in a desire desire car search a car I bought the worst-ever magnet in the world you can see that that is the hotel the only host help the town will

Probably end up in there and there’s like a little market going on bustling clothes going on we’re trying to find somewhere to eat all these places so far we just coffee – look at there follow our nose till we find we’ve had their shish shish kebab

And I believe the yeah bread with spicy sausage very mind 130th of our pound you can see what we’re looking at and we had some couple of local beers as well these are about 90 B did you show you this sort of local food it’s just basically pepperoni and cheese

And that one in there oh my god unbelievable just a big hunk of meat chips and bread really really delicious Scariest ever bar at number one let’s go down again just now we can show you kinda crazy differences now we go to other must be enough on yeah ground yeah incredible hotel for the night this is called the hotel Serbia tits it’s got massive beerbot light Hauser’s favor polenta bacon at ease Hauser’s favorite food his loss of polenta meats and cheese day 74 hazardous said good luck with pronouncing these names that I introduced today but we’re just leaving SATA car and we’re on the way to I’m keeping it Natha batch we’re going fire will basically via the slower routes because

It’s away from the main roads which is going to be beneficial this Sunday though there’s like no cars around anyway it’s pretty nice we’re going via or Leno vac brilliantly the Serbian uruvela thirteen signs are everywhere and they’re really good it tells you if you ought to go on the

Quicker route which is more direct and say about 30 K or you look at the slow route which is safer and only still only 54 capers much longer it’s really cold today we climbed up for about an hour I suppose they’ve done 10k so far that’s it

Now we’re going downhill and it’s really cold Palos Hills Hills the the guidebook that we have the Euro 13 translated from German to English they says this stage of the novella 13 is exhausting which M whenever you will read this morning off for a hangover they’re not wrong it’s bloody in

This bit it’s just been constantly up two hours 25 30 up so far Say that again and we’re going downhill now hopefully all the way to the town but yeah this bit isn’t much easier at all it’s probably just aside this really long mountain section finishes here it’s apparently a really good paved road all the way downhill to our destination

Today we’ve just come down through the tiny little village and the road he’s now paved really hard guy I mean it was practically mountain bike sectioning the hallway and on fully loaded touring bikes it’s pretty tough but beautiful scenery does another things well worth mentioning when we look on the map you

See four or five little cell settlements or villages but there’s just nothing there it’s basically just a few farm houses abandoned houses nothing we’re hoping for maybe a little cafe pretty cold up on the top of the hill but there’s nothing at all say just means be

Aware of but now we’re going to enjoy this downhill enjoy the smooth roads this is gonna feel incredible and we ended up here at Hotel tamaak bit more than we usually spend on hotel but at least you nothing else around so you’re gonna get up lots of food and have a

Really good relaxing nights because it’s very tough day today but Look what we found look at these legendary old cars big old Chevrolet just cooking up some lunch top of the mountain Hillary Hillary flatbread but nice and burnt kind of oven-baked flavor on top Oh some of the dogs they run out with bushes and chase you look like they’ve got rabies them

Would kill you but some of them is just so cute she’s following us parade is my stop I thought he goes on one hover when house it goes fast guarantee yeah there he comes he’s coming back to me I’ll probably tire out they eventually lost that lovely little pooch well ten

Kilometers go we got to the top of the hill and just absolutely bolted it down to the bottom and he couldn’t catch up he or she Sophie come back home to his mommy and daddy but maybe he does it all the time follow cyclists just to get Biscay or

Something when I win pivots and we’re going through the Industrial Estate area and apparently comes to the the the main town soon which is where our little apartment is gonna be for the night it’s just after 3 o’clock so we made pretty good time but I was definitely one of

The I guess nicely staged cycling we’ve had so far in Serbia the roads are really good condition for most of the way and some epic down hills and this will be our last night in Serbia very sad to leave this country it’s been really cool

On to Bulgaria – I just got to apartment in Peebles and it’s got absolutely everything we could possibly need brand-new we’ve even got our bike since high heat as I said it’s fine the big sofa bed a TV town looks really nice as those going on there’s even a psychopath

Hey good morning day 76 we’re just leaving pivots we had an amazingly restful and relaxing comfortable stay in the booking.com for 20 quid and now we’re off to Bulgaria don’t know how we’re gonna get there we are going to the train station and we found out that

As a train leaving around half 9:00 and it takes us about 25 kilometers to the border almost at the border but it basically means the reason what we’re doing is that we don’t go the main brand new motorway will be very dangerous and there’s just no point no point risking

It there’s no other way so we can do that and then we’ve got to wait maybe two half three so we might have a five-hour wait in the next town which a lot day or later but just don’t know how the day is going to go so I’m really

Intrigued to watch this video back you think oh that’s how it went so we’ll see