Zdravo! Some background first: A few days before I left for my Balkan Bash of a trip, whilst I was still in Greece, I posted a question on Lonely Planet's website, on a thing called the ThornTree. Basically I posted my itinerary, and asked people to recomend how I can improve it. And that they did! I arrived in the city of Niš in Serbia in the late afternoon from Skpoje (Macedonia), which was a city I was told to visit by one of the ThornTreers. It was raining buckets of water. Every person I asked for help at the bus station, didn't speak english. I knew absolutely nothing about this city, other than it was a semi-major city in Serbia. Heck, I didn't even know how to pronouce Niš! (It is pronounced, and spelt 'Nish'
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