Driving in the Balkans

Driving experiences in the region can vary greatly, depending on your route. Driving in Greece, Turkey, Croatia and on the main roads in Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Macedonia would be more or less normal and you can count on an average speed of 90-100 km per hour. But don’t expect anything even remotely similar if you’re driving in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, or on the smaller roads of Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia and Macedonia. There, your time may be spent in either driving with 40 km per hour in a cloud of poisonous smoke from old cars’ exhaust pipes or snail-slaloming between immense potholes on a desolate road.