Day 83 to 86 In the national park of Retezat mountains
Thanks to Florina I got a tip of a cool guy that lived in the middle a rural area near to a national park. He has a very liberal view on hosting, actually when you come to the door it says” Welcome in, it is open… I am probably not at home :-D” so… he kind of hosts people even if they don’t ask him… or meet him or anything like that… but if he IS around he will give you food as well… like this delicious food we had when we where there. (There where people from all over the world staying there… pretty cool!) He also had a mountain cabin within the park where also stayed for two days with lots of different people… cool!
Mihai in the middle arranging breakfast for all the hungry CS:ers.
Home-made tea that we got.. (most of what he gave us was picked from trees in the neighborhood or ecologically made)
The gate to Mihai’s place… kind of welcoming huh 😀
Was kind of cold up in the mountains, but Mihai had extra clothes that we could borrow!
Two American girls that we met in the mountains!
Well, it WAS cold up there 🙂
The couchsurfin gilrs outside the hut… yea… it was quite cold as I said 😛
Happy surfergirl!
Is she making out with he chimney? Naaah, she is warming her nose of course!
Outside the mountain house… check the writings on the door 🙂
This is where I showered up in the mountains… the water came directly from a glacier… SO cold!
Flyyyying in the mountains!
There where LOTS of dogs at the place… and they where so cute!
Day 81 to 82 Brasov
After Bucharest I went to Brasov. I met up with these two CS:ers there who where really nice and showed us around the whole city. (Anca decided to come along for a while after Bucharest).
Welcome to the Movie-star city of Brasov 😉
Trying out my new hat… according to Anca I looked like Indiana Jones… hmm… perhaps she was trying to be a bit nice 😉
I am still not totally convinced… (even though they had that nice sign…)
Our hosts in Brasov… ok… perhaps it was the best city in the world anyway 😀
Day 76 to 80 Bucharest
My stay in Bucharest was filled with everything from meeting new people during an open museum night to revisiting old friends from Stockholm. I had so much fun that I ended up staying a few days more than I had planned to… not so much due to the city but rather due to all the nice people I met…
My first host Vera to the left and some friends of hers… the guy to the right really liked Sweden, he even had ordered a plate to his car with the letters “SWE” 😀
One of Ceausescu’s more crazy projects… to build a huuuge house for himself. (Actually the only building larger used to be the Pentagon in Washington DC…)
Me and some locals… (naah, kidding, they where dressed up for the festivities of Bucharest 550 years old as a city)
Two CS:ers I met during the second day. The girl to the right is Anca who ended up hosting me for a few days.
Me and Anca sweaty after having danced Salsa with a lot of other CS:ers!
Me with a cute puppy I met in Bucharest.
Anyone heard of KFC (Kentucky Fried Chicken?) Well… welcome to the Bucharest version 😉
Uuupps, that was a bad spot to stand at… (don’t worry… the stone statue survived…)
Meeting up with Florina who lived in Sweden before… fun to see her again!
Day 73 to 75 Craiova (Romania)
It was quite interesting to go from Serbia to Romania… in the end I actually stayed one night in Bulgaria on my way… tried everything from hitchhiking with a group of gypsies (who turned out to be really cool and nice people). To having to walk almost 15 km in the middle of the night in Bulgaria when I couldn’t find a ride… (but I finally did). To being offered a blowjob by a guy in the morning in Bulgaria when crossing over to Romania (I politely declined…) Well, then Craiova turned out to be a great place. Met these fun girls that showed me a round a bit in the beginning and have been staying with this cool dude that have really been the perfect host… have had so much fun!
Later on in the night when we where going back to his place we met up with a third guy who say that we had two guitars with us and suggested we should go to a park and play for a while… it ended up with us sitting there for several hours just playing… really cool!
I was stuck with a guy on the road for about 40 minutes while these road workers was shoveling dirt down on the road (and look at the safety of that… just next to the edge, welcome to Serbia 😉
A truck driver bought me lunch (and I saw these nice grapes hanging in the restaurant… so I had to take a photo… after I had tried one of course :D)
Going towards the crossing to Romania (just after the guy had offered me that blowjob) I came cross a group of goats on the road….
There are loads of dogs running around everywhere in Craiova… but they are really friendly
My host in Craiova to the right and a friend of his that he has a band together with… great dude 😀
Me on a pub with a live band (and yep, I am writing this in the pub)
The band playing in the pub.
The guy who we played with in the park
Ion playing in the park (a friend of my host)
Alex playing (my host)
Day 68 to 72 Belgrade
Hi guys, have spent the last couple of days in Belgrade… just a fantastic city… I am so amazed with the people who are extremely friendly and helpful to strangers. If you stop someone on the street to chat or ask for directions they always take the time and perhaps walk with you a part of the way to make sure you get right… amazing!
During my hitchhiking over from Sarajevo I had a long chat with a truck driver that had been a tank commander during the war. Was very interesting to hear the horrors of war from someone who actually had been there destroying all those buildings I saw on the way… (He had been leading a division of 10 tanks and destroyed several villages… something he was very sad and embarrassed about).Or as when my first host in Belgrade lost his hole company when the war started and had to leave the country since he was a deserter… so many peoples live changed due to that war.
There where a LOT of hitchhikers outside Sarajevo… definitely another culture here (and a lot of people picking people up as well…)
You can’t really see it here, but behind these trees is something as special as a catholic and protestant church built together into one building… cool!
My Serbian friend had a passport issued in 2008… and it still says Yugoslavia…
A nice lake in central Belgrade that we went swimming in (yea, the water was warm :-D))
Visiting the mother of my host… she made great food for us. (My first host in Belgrade on the picture)
The new train station that has been under construction for the last 25 years… someone got something wrong in the planning I think 😉
This is what happens when the US decides to send some cruising missiles into your country… (this was the military headquarters in Belgrade that was bombed during the Kosovo conflict).
Belgrade by night
The third largest Cathedral in the world… currently under construction… will take another 10 years to finish all the paintings inside.
A great t-shirt print 😀
Going to the air-show… cars are driving on both the left and ride side of the road…welcome to Serbia in a traffic jam…
Of course the kids should climb and play on cruise missiles…
Loads of cool airplanes and helicopters. The guy to the right was showing me around 😀 
Probably the most “up hotted” Yugo in existence 😀 (Yugo is a Serbian car brand)
My second host in Belgrade in the middle and two Slovakian girls who where also surfing with her at the same time as me.
Ivana on a close up 😀
Day 66 and 67 in Sarajevo
A short stay in Sarajevo turned out to be a bit longer than first expected. I met a lot of nice and fun people and just had to hang around for a while longer. We have been doing some sightseeing, I have gone to a museum or two, seen the spot where the Habsburger heir was shot, a museum on the War in the 90’s, a football game between Bosnia and Turkey on big-screen (people here really needs Hero’s badly!). Gotten a bit of a sense for the culture in the country… definitely a more macho mood than I am used to and… well… just seen things 🙂
Souvenirs in Sarajevo… pens that looks like bullets… 
In what other country in Europe would a sign saying “Mr Sexy” be a fun a cool thing to put on your car? (Or miss Sexy further down 😉
This is where the first world war started… with the shootings in Sarajevo…
Me and a cool CS-girl that I was hanging out with during my stay in the city. 
Since Bosnia is a Muslim country they had a lot of really cool Mosques, and since it was Ramadan almost no-one was drinking alcohol even in pubs (there are some Christians in town as well… but mainly Muslims)
I love this picture because of the windows… the top left is a really new wooden window, the two ones to the right are really old murky wood and down to the left is one ornamented in gold and is really fancy… and yepp… there are of course the traditional bullet holes in the wall as well…
Three Swiss girls I was also hanging out with a lot when in town.
This picture kind of shows how Sarajevo still looks like… 15 years after the war.
Want some ice cream? Why not try the red bull flavor… (was actually better than I had expected…)
Me, the Swiss girls and Alen our local Bosnian guide (CS:er). He was really cool and showed us around the whole town and told us a lot about life in Sarajevo.
Watching the football game Bosnia/Turkey (it was a draw which was really good for Bosnia… there where a lot of firecrackers going on when there was a goal :-D)
Afterwards everyone was celebrating here… look at the guy to the left climbing up the building to join the others standing on the top of the balcony… these guys where crazy… 😀
One not so lucky guy fell down and hit his head… so the police is there until the ambulance arrives… the police where quite brutal btw… wouldn’t like to go to a Bosnian prison…
Day 65 Traveling to Sarajevo
This day was a travel day again, usually these are not really something I write about but going through Bosnia turned out to be a quite emotional ride…
First getting out of Split… I took a few short cuts through small pathways and suddenly I was attacked by this huge dog… luckily I managed to jump just outside the reach of his line… so his jaws snapped shut in mid air… phew!
Later on I got a ride with this truck that drove about 80 km/h on the small mountain road with sharp turns (and a speed limit of 40). The big thing was not the crazy speed though, but to see all the bombed out houses in the landscape… there is so much destruction here… even in Sarajevo most houses still have bullet holes in the plaster… you can really feel it wasn’t long ago this country was in war.
The countryside in Split… or rather this is actually still in the city.. these people LOVE their vegetables…
This was the dog that jumped me… I had to go back and take a photo (on a safe distance)
The roads to Sarajevo where beautiful in the beginning… blue water… green trees and sand
They had signs warning for cows on the roads which I thought was funny to start with…
Then I realized why… there where cows walking over the roads here and there…
Later on the was a more common scenery… almost every second house was without a roof, and the ones still standing usually had big bullet holes in them.
More houses
I walked by a 5 star hotel in Sarajevo and saw a sign saying that you are not allowed to bring dogs … or GUNS into the hotel… kind of tells you where you are…
Day 56 to 64 sailing in Croatia
Sailing in Croatia was definitely an adventure especially since most of the crew where Polish which meant that both me and Dilman picked up a bit of a new vocabulary in Polish… quite fun!
The adventures ranged from going out in the evenings meeting cool people to sailing in hard weather and having fishing lines caught in the boat. (Luckily for us we had a full insurance on the boat with no cost… because when we got back to land they had to lift up the boat since we had gotten salt-water into the gear-box… it did happen quite often though the guys in the marina assured me…)
Dilman also made a Google map over our trip if anyone wants to see : http://tinyurl.com/lrs9uk
Electric wiring in Croatia… most of the streets where so small that you couldn’t have fitted a car into them even without the stairs…
Our boat
Me in the water… I have just saved my hat from drowning…
Dilman and Betty (one of the Polish girls on the trip)
Dilman in the cabin
Dilman trimming the sails 🙂
Me and my cool hat 🙂
More polish girls 🙂 
Coming up to a port
I love the colors on the water 🙂
Perhaps not shaved… but happy…
Sunset sky
The whole group… the guy bending down next to me is Chris… he was arranging the whole thing
Two guys and their cannon…
Dilman liking the view
Me being a bit sweaty… it WAS a very big climb…
Some people had really cool boats… like the wooden one behind me here… 
Me and two of the girls again
We are all having our heads down (the observant can see that this is my new profile picture on many places :-P)
Don’t mess with me… or I’ll hit you with my anchor… aaaargh!
The group in a tower
Me and Dilman climbing around on a playground in the middle of the night
The boat is leaning quite a lot…
Some streets where smaller than others 🙂
Us posing again, this time at night
We experiment with the self timer in the harbor… or boat is the one behind us with the light.
Me sailing when it is leaning a bit… yeeehaa 🙂
That guy looks quite happy…
Yet another harbor at night… and yes… they where more beautiful in reality…
Dilman by Sirius, our boat.
Our boat in the air
And this was the reason… loads of fishing line caught inside the propeller and gearbox…
Leaving the boat area with my new backpack
In the old palace area in Split… the moon looked quite cool
Dilman on a square in Split… with cool background
We found a band playing by the water… I am in the front dancing with a girl
The same girl the day after… turned out she was selling her own stuff on the square
Me and Dilman caught on a fishing hook
Split… quite a beautiful place
Going to a MC-club festival in the night… it was hard rock all the way 🙂
They even had pole dancers performing
The lights in the background is on the other side of the ocean… yea the festival was on the beach.
The street sellers that I became friends with in Split
One of the attractions they had was a carousel for the kids… driven by manual labor.
