Poland to Greece, safety concerns

[slacklinetravel]

Hello

I would first like to say thank you to everyone for keeping this website going and sharing the information with all of us, the more information we have, the safer we can travel.

With that being said, I would like to ask some advice on an efficient, safe route from Poland to Greece.

We will be hitchhiking, so that means very likely some camping. We are planning about 8 days to make it, which, from prior hitchhiking experience, should be more than enough time for roughly 1700km; but, as we have little to no experience in these countries, we are trying to play it safe.

The debate at the moment is whether to go through Serbia, the safety of this country being our main concern. This would of course then entail Macedonia as well and, to be frank, we have almost no idea of what it is like. The other options are Crotia/Bosnia/Montenegro/Albania or Romania/Bulgaria.

If anyone has some experience with travel and/or safety in these countries we would love to hear about it.

Thanks for your time,