Passing through Slovenia

Friday 31.07.87 Departure from Milan at 4 pm. In Italy we use only motorways. Before the border, at Gorizia, we fill up with diesel and have dinner. We enter Yugoslavia at 8 pm. We reach the motorway for Ljubljana at 10 pm and stop to sleep. At the border we changed lire into the dinars needed for the crossing.

Saturday 01.08.87 Departure from Ljubljana at 8. We find fog in the first part of the journey, which slows us down. We pass Zagreb and Belgrade, where we fill up. Towards evening we have already reached Nis, to sleep and wait for morning to continue, filling up with diesel. On the road we meet plenty of Polish caravans and the Yugoslav police keep asking the Poles for their documents. It is 9.30 pm. After Nis, most of the traffic heads towards Sofia. The traffic consists above all of Turks going home from Germany loaded with anything and everything; the cars are crammed and the motorway verges are turned into bivouacs where they eat, pray and sleep on the ground on carpets or simple plastic sacks. For the motorway we spend about 8,000 dyn, almost all the din we had. Inflation is really high.