Greyish clouds covered the entire sky. Ok, it was something between white and grey, I can't really determine, but the fact you can see from my photos is that there was no blue. That blue sky I like a lot was separated from our view by this cloud layer. I felt also a few raindrops on my face while walking there. Next to the river Tisa, in a campsite.
I can say that we stopped here almost completely by accident. We set off that morning to meet some friends in a town that is about two and a half hours away by car from our place. We stopped to rest from driving as we were not in a hurry, we arrived earlier than the agreed time. So, what would be nicer than spending at least a little time in nature?
From the highway, we saw the river, and not much after it the sign showed that a campsite can be found there. Leaving the main road and entering the small path through the forest made my GPS lady go crazy. Make a U-turn.
I ignored that voice, shut it off and we continued towards this place. When we arrived, the first impression was that it was just an abandoned place, but soon we saw the boats and a few children playing football in a kind of improvised playground.
The wind was blowing, you can notice it also on the bent tree trunks and the soft branches and leaves of this tree. The willow trees were following the path all the way by the riverside.
Plenty of space and benches with tables, like small picnic areas were scattered in the shade of the tall trees. It was very pleasant, and to my major surprise, there were no mosquitoes at all. Well, neither people were around... Just on one spread-out blanket, there was a group of people sitting and chatting. A nice time they had!
I entered a bit further into the campsite and found the houses. Actually, cottages. They are simple, and some of them were pretty old. Seemed that many of them were out of use, but it was strange as we are in the middle of summer. A few years ago we went to a campsite for a weekend in Hungary, by one lake. The cottages were fully occupied and also there were a lot of tents and mobile homes. That's why it was completely strange for me, why these cottages were closed. No human activity around could be seen...
Strolling there around I found one board where I read the name of this place. According to that board, it is called the Zabalj Bridge picnic area. The board gave me some info that there are sports courts for basketball and volleyball and children's playgrounds. A swimming pool is also mentioned, but I really could not see it. Who knows, maybe it existed some years ago, but according to the level of activities around (almost none), maybe it was closed too.
Not far away from the cottages, I stumbled upon a very cool thing!! I found some really, but really old wagons. Maybe they were supposed to be refurbished and used as cottages? They were in very bad shape, they would need some work to be done on them, but imagine then how cool they would be!
They are cool in this condition too, but not for use as a place to stay or sleep inside. Just for exploration and going back in time. How old they can be? 50, 60 years, or maybe more?
Finally, a dog approached me around those wagons. He was friendly and after some moments he let himself be cuddled. We gave him a bit of water from our hands, but then we left. He stayed to guard this very nice, but not busy place.
