2018-12-06 Day 86 Thu


Spent a little time doing some computer work. Internet has been really good in Europe generally. Can pretty much have internet access continuously. About 4 coaches came through while we were working so everyone knows we are here. John did a bit of research and realized that our clocks have changed again. Sun set is now at 16:00hrs and sunrise at 06:55hrs
I drove out around 10am and followed the yellow road to the city of Nis. Here we were doing some touristy things. Firstly we stopped at the Skull tower, interesting. This is where the defeating Turks beheaded their prisoners and sent their peeled skulls of to their boss to say they had won the war. A wall was erected made from the skulls, of which only a few remain.







Then to Bubanj memorial Park to see the three fist monument commemorating the 10,000 Jews, Serbs & Roma that were executed on this site by the Nazi's between February 1942 & September 1944. Thought provoking.




Next to the Red Cross concentration camp “12 February” Where thousands of prisoners were either shipped onwards to concentration camps in Germany, Norway or Poland, or taken to the above mentioned hill at Bubanj and shot: their remains being burned and or buried. 

 



The walls around the camp had gun holes every 10m all of them pointing in at the prisoners. Amazing how cruel fellow humans can be.
 

North out of Nis to find a camp near Rsovac. An old yellow road with lots of farms and farmers plowing with their little red tractors. We tucked behind a hedge about 3:40 on an unused looking piece of ground.

A few tractors past us going home but no one stopped.

90km