2018-12-08 Day 88 Sat


We drove up the hill to see the place where Emperor Galerius and his mother Felix Romuliana were burned after their deaths so that their spirit ascended to heaven on an eagles back.
 

The plan was to drive about 300km across Serbia to a meandering river. John started out well on an orange road, averaging about 80km/hr. It took us only and hour to achieve what took 4 hours on the prior day on windy yellow yellow, windy and went roads at about km/hr.


Another truck accident.

However once we turned south at Paracin on yellow our speed dropped way back to about 40km/h again.
 
John suggested a detour/shortcut on a white road for lunch and to visit a monastery. So we ended up at the Zica monastery which is set up for very large number of tourists (today there were a half dozen). The monastery was quite nice but I think we have been spoiled by the fresco’s at Rila monastery in Bulgaria. 
 
At the public toilets we decided to fill our tanks so john lowered the hose out the male toilet window. As we finished a man came out, upset that we had been stealing water, and bombing Serbia…. We apologized and offered to pay for the water, and assured him that Australia had not bombed Serbia - but he was not at all friendly. Up until know the Serbs have all been really friendly with big waves.
The day has been dreary, so good for driving. Next stop was Studenica Monastery the biggest and wealthiest in Serbia. We arrived just on sunset so found a camp down at the river. Still drizzling.

236km