Belgrade to Budapest

Okay sooo I left Belgrade around 4pm and got a 6 hour bus to Budapest, Hungary. The bus wasn’t bad until… the border.
It took an hour of sitting for us to get to the border and when we got there we all got off the bus to do the stamps and passport control stuff and all was fine until they decided to make us ALL get off the bus with ALL of our stuff.
Now I have had border stops where they do the drug dogs or check 1-3 peoples bags but never everyone on the bus. Everyone was looking at each other in disbelief. So we all get off again with our stuff and they make us all line up infront of a table outside and they go to TOWN!!! They pull us up 1 by 1 and start pulling everything from our bags it was rough. To add to the experience it started pouring down rain and they didn’t care to let you repack on the table at all. You were forced to grab your loose items and bags and walk across to repack on the ground in the rain. It took about an hour for us to get through all of this and we were all baffled. Lightning even struck the roof above us and we all jumped.
Fast forward, we get back on the bus for about 5 seconds and have to get off again at the Hungary border and get stamped but thankfully it was a breeze.
We get back on the road and it was only another 1.5 hours but the bus driver decided to take the only stop of the journey for 30 min at a rest stop when we were only 30 min away so everyone was annoyed. We go and get food and I start chatting with some other people from the bus and we all laugh about the experience and then go on our ways.
I finally made it to Budapest around 11pm and then I met my friend Liam for a night out. I met him in Macedonia and in Albania so obviously we had to have a cross over in a 3rd country haha.Read more