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