goth

i finally got sick. in Sibui transylvania, i caught a cold which turned into a fever and i was laid up for a few days. i had one of those evenings with nightmares that turn into you waking up shivering your so cold, even though your fully clothed, in a sleeping bag, with blankets right next to a heater. so i slept all day like an invalid in a dorm room as the people in the other beds looked at me in horror. today i'm much better. romania was also complicated because apparently my bank doesn't allow banking from there? so i had money in the bank, but none at hand, because of fear of fraud. i called the bank, and my atm card works in serbia and croatia, but not romania. that was complicated in itself. it was even stranger to walk around half dead through the winding gothic streets of the town, i felt like i was hallucinating the entire thing while i stumbled around looking for cheap food. i've got some medicine now and should be fine shortly though. i'm in serbia now, which i was advised not to go to. but in belgrade its very placid, despite the recent anti-western riots, it seems rather normal here to me. granted its not the border of kosovo, which i will not be going to at the moment. the romanian border was packed with people trying to leave and nobody trying to get in, we skirted right through, and drove through a rain storm into belgrade last night down roads that go in and out from being one lane to two. headed to zagreb tomorrow.