Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Heading south to Bosnia

The Croatians or perhaps Croates are very warm, openly friendly and smiley people. We got a bit of a shock when we got to Bosnia. Immigration felt a little intimidating. We pulled up to the Croatian guards kiosk, he sleepily turned around and saw me, a 9 year old seemingly at the drivers side and got quite a shock. His female companion burst out laughing. They checked our passports and we drove 20 metres through no mans land to grumpy looking unshaven Bosnian immigration police. They want passports, Lima's too, they want car documents and green card. Apparently we are supposed to have a green card. They tell Dad to park 5 metres forward and to the right. We need a green card, they can not issue one because they don't have a computer, we have to go back and to another border crossing about 40 k away.
Dad turns around and goes back. They shout at us to STOP. We stop. They want to see our passports and car documents. Dad says, "you just saw them all 2 minutes ago". Apparently when we pulled up 5metres to park we entered Bosnia so they had to check our passports and documents again as we left.
 When we got back to the Croatian kiosk the lady guard was still laughing and leaned out of her window and asked me for my driving licence then started laughing even more.

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