Not sure how I managed to miss this, but a lovely project to drive a bus from Belgarde to Olso in support of banning cluster bombs had a great start in Belgrade.

The Ban Bus | The Ban Bus, Belgrade to Oslo

“I handed my tattered faceless passport over to the pretty blonde at Belgrade immigration as I entered Serbia and she scowled at the lack of anything on the cover. It’s fast turning into a dog eared worn scrap and not the international identity pass that it should be. All printing on the cover has worn away and it bulges with many old stamps and visas. It’s the biggest passport I could get for the frequent traveller and its sixty four pages are three quarters filled in only five years.

Blondie opens the book and cracks up laughing. “You have dancing penguins in your passport?” as she chuckles to show her friend seated next to here. Together they start to paw through the pages as the atmosphere changes. “Here’s a pretty one, a polar bear and Yemen is fancy as is Afghanistan and Lebanon.”

Read on here.