Green Card at Serbian Border (from Croatia)
 

We crossed into Serbia today, from Croatia, on the main motorway (E70).

The border was very painless. Didn't ask for V5 or anything, just passports.

My insurer (Elephant) doesn't cover Serbia, so I needed to buy a green card (though you could quite happily drive through uninsured if you wanted to take the risk - they did not check my documents).

On the Serbian side of the border, there are a load of booths on the right hand side, which mostly do foreign exchange, but a couple offer green cards.

These cost a princely sum of €110 for a car (must be in cash) for one month of cover (the minimum you can take), and take about 10-15 mins to obtain, though do look official, and though I haven't tried to claim on it, I'm relatively confident that it's real.

A fortune, but I guess saved me 7 hours in fuel from driving around Hungary and Romania to get to Bulgaria...

Archival Note:

More up to date information (as of summer 2014) about insurance prices and availability in the countries of former Yugoslavia can be found at this discussion:

Balkans Insurance - Here's the story, with details & sample documents.

The prices shown there are for motorcycles.

Michael