OOPS! Can't go to Serbia from Kosovo
 I'm embarrassed to say I left Pristina, Kosovo this morning and showed up at the border on the way to Serbia and Bulgaria as I make my way to Istanbul and then Georgia this month. I was refused entry at the Serbian border, and a nice english speaking policeman advised me to go back to Pristina (30km) and then south to Skopje, Macedonia, and even apologized for what he called "politics".
I will say that the police at the Kosovo side of the border did warn me in broken english that I would have trouble and not to show my passport, but to use my "identity card" - he pointed to my drivers license, but the Serbian police wanted my passport - so no go.
I did the detour losing most of the early day - but made it through Macedonia and into Greece and I'm resting nicely in Thessaloniki, Greece - so it all worked out. All in a days work.
It's been quite a week: Slovenia, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, and now Greece.
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