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Thanks everyone for taking to time to supply great information. It sounds like there are enough buses for me to rely on from Kikinda to Novi Sad. If for some reason I can't get a bus or I just miss one and feel in the mood I'll try and hitch a lift. Can't wait to be in Serbia. Take care, John

Thanks for that all your help with this. The bus timetable link looks great - exactly what I was hoping for. How large is Kikinda? Will it be easy to find where the buses leave from - is the train station out of town? If I'm reading the timetable correctly, there are buses at 0600, 0650, 0730, 0800, 0900, 1130, etc and most journey take about two hours? One other thing- if there is passenger traffic across this border, is it likely that foreigners (i.e. non Serbians/Romanians) can cross it? Would they have proper border facilities to cope with this? If not, I guess I'd try and walk or get a taxi/lift from Jimbolia. At the border you can walk across by Srpska Crnja would they have the facilities to let foreigners cross? Hvala - thanks again, John

Hi there, I'm posting here because Marko (mpetrovic on thorntree) recommended it to me. I'm travelling from Chisinau to Novi Sad through Romania to get to Exit and am planning on avoiding Bucharest and Belgrade as I'd like to a) take a direct route, see some of the country other than the capital and c) see places I haven't seen before. That said, I'll be on a very tight schedule and will take in only Brasov then take the night train to Timisoara (and on to Jimbolia or Kikinda if need be) before trying to get some kind of transport (Bus, shared taxi?) to Novi Sad. Luckily, the time I get into Timisoara means I've got (according to bahn.de) a direct connection through to Kikinda via Jimbolia. I know this train only runs a couple of times a day, but is it reliable? Is my best option to take this and then get transport from Kikinda? Or is there other regular transport from Timisoara to Novi Sad? I could also go to Arad instead of Timisoara if it meant a better connection to Novi Sad. If there's no regular transport from any of the above places I'll probably go all the way through to Kikinda and try and find a way of getting a lift. How long should it take by car? How friendly are drivers in that part of Serbia?! Thanks for you help. Cheers, John