Given the last chance before a few rainy days in a row coming up I had two choices on how to spend this current one: Ride or Walk. Since I will have more than enough of the former on this trip over the next months and in the absence of attractive day rides around I decide the latter.
This brings me to (as far as I can tell) the highest point of Krusevac where the local park Bogdana lies. It has cycle tracks as you can see,
and of course pedestrian ones two:
What you can't experience since pictures don't deliver audio is the screaming of the crows that nest in this park. It's a Hitchcock thing. The trees are full of them. Can you spot their nests?
Not so hard but I'm always glad to help:
I just marked the obvious ones so you get an idea - I'm sure there's more in the same image. It's also impressive how close I manage to approach one of them but more on that on the video later.
Fancy baby friendly benches? There you go:
Kinda funny to see that descriptive sign about the purpose of those benches. I think such figures were used in the 80s if I am not mistaken.
Do you know how this game is called in English? I don't:
I know the obvious ones like this:
A colourful touch is always welcome - these are wood chips by the way:
I am too Mediterranean to be familiar with this but I guess it must be a snow slide so kids can play in the winter time:
Moving on up I get some overview which I would enjoy much more on a less cold cloudy and windy day:
The Serbian flag proudly waving gives you an idea about the wind. That church in the background gave me the idea that it was receiving some maintenance. As I step closer it starts looking something more than that:
Yep, it's actually a new church under construction. I crossed checked it on Google Maps - on December of 2019 the project was looking like this:
Today there's an obvious progress:
In front of this church there is a park with miniature churches. I've never seen anything like this!
Cute right? Wanna pick your favourite one? Write in the comments below.
In the absence of sea some blue is welcome - these must be river pebbles:
There's this much smaller church next to the new one you saw before:
Time to make it all the way up, despite the torturing cold wind, in order to see the full view:
From this point I am overlooking Krusevac just like the Serbian flag does:
I can't stand it for long up there but you can enjoy the screaming crows and this hilltop view in the next 4K video:
Take "enjoy" with a bit of scepticism though as the moody weather vanishes the colours.
I step back down and as I descend I get some sort of "San Francisco" taste of Krusevac at those steep roads:
The truth is that images don't really show how the inclination is in real. They do show how poor some houses look and are. I am impressed by how many houses are bare like the following ones without any render over the bricks and I wonder how that feels during the winter:
I also couldn't skip noticing the difference our cemeteries in Greece have with the Serbian ones. We might be both Orthodox but our graves are white marble while most Serbian ones are black:
There are some white ones here too but it's a minority. I guess they are for the unmarried ones? I have no idea.
Thanks for walking with me, hope you liked it, see you on the next one!