Saturday, December 02, 2006

Car insurance issues - Side trips toTrieste, Bosnia, Montenegro


Side-trip car insurance. Your papers must state where you are permitted to go. In some countries, going in from somewhere else is not permitted, but leaving from there may well be.

1. To go to Trieste. I understand that car rental insurance works from Croatia as an origin, to Trieste but not from Trieste as an origin to Croatia. Do your homewok. We do car rental arrangements from the US and get specific countries listed as ok before contracting, so we are not surprised.

2. To go to Bosnia. Your paperwork must include it if you are driving from one part of Croatia to another, crossing that narrow bit of Bosnia in between at the coast. A port for Bosnia dips to the Adriatic just north of Dubrovnik, a waterfront span of Bosnia for about four miles, with Croatia on both sides. Your Bosnia permission may be limited, excluding Kosovo and Sarajevo. Know in advance.

3. To go to Montenegro. Add it in advance, as with Bosnia. No areas are excluded, however. Then be careful of the high mountain roads. Fabulous ski country, we hear, but on our own we avoided the highest areas.

If you go in the fall, road repairs may be more complete than in the spring.

4. To go to Slovenia. No exclusions. No issues. And, it now is part of the European Union, and that is wave-your-passport, if anything, uninterrupted passage.

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