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Travel tales from the vault: Getting into Serbia
Last summer, both Chromeo and I played Exit festival in Serbia. Contrary to what you might imagine the festival itself isn’t quite cut off from the rest of Europe — in fact a ton of fans fly in from all over the continent to attend and it has a great international reputation. Traveling there was an interesting experience though. I flew, which wasn’t too bad. The national airline is JAT airways and although the plane was old enough to still have ashtrays at every seat, it got us there without too much trouble.
The Chromeo bros flew as well, but their touring crew (tour manager, sound guys, light guy, etc) drove in through Hungary. They got stopped at the border for many hours and Tom, the tour manager (who also often works with me) was traumatized by this experience of bribing officers with cartons of cigarettes and obtaining mysterious “travel insurance” at the border. I had asked him to write down the story for this very blog… I must have lost track of it but just found it now in my emails, so here it is, in Tom’s words: (more…)
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