"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" wrote in message
news:1j4c3bs.cuj4ejfo90buN%d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk...
> tim..... wrote:
>
>> "David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" wrote in message
>> news:1j4c2y9.1h2r0db740pa0N%d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk...
>> > tim..... wrote:
>> >
>> >> "Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in
>> >> message
>> >> news:bogus-046728.10432812082009@news.albasani.net...
>> >> >> So no comments yet. I hope that you're all reading (especially
>> >> >> Jack!)
>> >> >
>> >> > These have been extremely helpful. Two things that come to mind:
>> >> >
>> >> > - you made things unnecessarily difficult for yourself by using
>> >> > a car, which I wouldn't even consider - driving is work, and as
>> >> > you discovered, so is route finding. Leave that to bus drivers,
>> >> > they're getting paid for it.
>> >>
>> >> bus as in standing at the stop, waiting, getting on and paying a fare.
>> >>
>> >> or bus as in organised coach tour?
>> >>
>> >> I like doing the former but the fact is that you get to see a quarter
>> >> of
>> >> the
>> >> things each day this way. This is fine if you're touring a compact
>> >> location, but is never going to work for the area that I wanted to
>> >> cover
>> >> here.
>> >
>> > From reading your _review_, there is nothing particularly redeeming
>> > about using the car. OK, a mountain view at some point, but also a bit
>> > of "it is absolutely tipping down so I decide not to stop and press on
>> > to the border."
>>
>> That was just one day.
>>
>> You aren't going to do 6 monasteries in a day on the bus (if indeed you
>> can
>> do them at all)
>
> Would I want to, I might ask myself?
>
>> Nor are you going to do cross country routes easily, it's all out and
>> back
>> from Belgrade
>
> From your reports, you don't make it sound easy, choosing hotels on the
> basis of whether or not you can park there or not, terrible condition of
> roads, spot checks by police etc. It doesn't sound like my idea of fun
> at all.
Not really sure what point you are trying to make David. I said at the
start that Serbia didn't contain much "excitement" (and no I didn't know
that before I went).
tim
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