Day 19 Nis to Belgrade

Informal transit again today.  A quick trip, its less than 300km and it’s a motorway with a 120kph speed limit. After that, we became tourists again.

The Metropole Palace Hotel, where we're staying, is pretty good. We took a tram downtown, had lunch, saw parliament and various government buildings, the Belgrade Fortress (left) and the ‘Bohemian area’ (below).

Mark getting a new key cut, and outside the Serbian Parliament.

While we were out, we found an optometrist and had Marks glasses adjusted, and we happened upon a key man who did us a new car key to replace the one I lost a few days ago.

When the rain started to pour down, we cut short being tourists and were lucky to get a taxi home. 

Servicing the rally cars in the hotel carpark in the rain.

Competition resumes tomorrow - two stages are scheduled.