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Day 3 - Uzice, Serbia to Pirot, Serbia
Bit damp overnight but the sun is out as we depart the Hotel. It starts off promisingly with a continuation of the tunnel theme from yesterday but doesn't last long and we soon on some tiresome 30,40,50 kmph roads.for a couple of hours and progress is slow.
There's a bit of a Satnav glitch where we're directed onto a non existent road through a block of flats but luckily Warriors and Hawks older Satnav maps have the correct route. To start with it looks like this may not have been so lucky as its a quite steep hill up a right turn and not the easiest. At the top however after narrowly avoiding a nutter in a car trying to turn into Warrior we the discover a whole world of fun. Its a stretch of single track road, mostly up hill through woods with hairpins and switchbacks. The surface is a little tricky though with broken tarmac, loose in places and a fair number of potholes. This turns out to be brilliant and even oncoming tractors seems to make it more fun!
This section then leads us on a picturesque stretch of long sweeping bends en route to Brus for lunch. There's a nutter in the car park (of course) who i think wants to wash the bikes but then he shows me his teeth and walks off to shout at a car.
The afternoon starts with more long bends but soon turns into some quite dodgy road surfaces, potholes and ruts that put you into a wobble. The Tigger handles it all brilliantly and it feels great on the sections where we are on the pegs.
There's a lot of money being spent in this area on engineering projects such as bridge building and motorway construction. It seems to be a major undertaking but very few people actually working on it. Unlike the UK where all this would be coned off and behind barriers we get quite close to all this and cross over certain sections.
We get to Pirot late afternoon and head for a hotel we'd seen advertised on bill boards - it looks like they decided to knock it down though and not tell anyone. Luckily Hotel Gali is discovered which is basic but does just fine.
Its our first proper night out so we find a cosy little bar and hit the beers. There's some food at a local Serbian diner (mixed grills all round) and more beer. We're amazed at how cheap it is , roughly a 1/5 of UK prices so it seems a shame not to take advantage!
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