Day 4 Pirot Serbia

It was the last morning in Sofia. As we had packed the night before, we headed to a local breakfast about 1km away from the accommodation. Breakfast was very delicious and interesting, consisting of scrambled eggs with Bulgarian sausage and goat cheese and a banitsa,a filo pastry filled with eggs and cheese.
After breakfast we went in search of an ATM machine to withdraw cash. Although my card had a $3000 limit, most of the ATMs we tried from different banks only allowed cash withdrawal of €200 per transaction with a fee of €3.44 each time. You can however withdraw as many times as you wished.
We will endeavour to use the card as much as possible.
As we still had time before checkout, we took a stroll through the Roman ruins and the long way back to the accommodation stopping again at St Alexander Nefski Cathedral.
After checkout, we trundled our suitcases almost 2km to the Europcar rental office, bringing such fond memories of the past Europe trips.
The adminstrative bit of car rentals done, we were off to Pirot Serbia in a red hybrid MG3. We had booked a non hybrid car so were thrilled with a hybrid especially with today's soaring petrol prices.
We were held up at the border crossing for almost an hour. We had lunch whilst waiting. A small packet of corn chips from Perth and my squashed muffin that I did not eat on the plane.
The most scary bit was driving on the other side, steering always veering to the right and only once drove on the wrong side of the road with cars honking and coming at me. We made it to 2 old churches and arrived safely at the accommodation in Pirot in one piece.
We were recommended Ladna Voda Restaurant by the host when we arrived so we tried. The table 4 rows down lit her cigarette in the restaurant. When she has finished, another person at table lit up. Thankfully they finished and left before our food arrived. When we finished our meal we were almost ready to look at the dessert menu and coffee when the restaurant owner lit up. We cancelled that idea very quickly and left the restaurant.
Walking out to the car we found we've got a parking ticket. There were no signs for parking payments or machines so we  assumed that this tiny town had free parking. Fortunately the fine was only A$17.
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