Over the next 2 days, we visited 2 fortresses and a monestary. I’ll put those together in one story.
We went for a run in the morning. Then I ran over to Maria’s place because we needed to let them know that we were gonna have crepes, and we wanted to make sure they didn’t have breakfast yet. We managed and had lovely crapes together with four different kinds of jam.
Monastary
Our first outing was to monastery that has nuns. It was very beautiful and scenic
We also explored over a small bridge that said “be careful the bridge is old and rotten” LOL But on the other side Simon found a little cave and nobody else was going there except us so that was really cool.
Fortress Adventure #1
We split up into two cars because some of us wanted to hike up to this fortress that we saw on top of a small mountain from the monastary, and some did not. It was Maria, me and the kids.
But somehow we went the wrong way. We misunderstood the directions Slavica told us, plus Google led us the same wrong way. We ended up driving on big rocks and Maria had to get out and guide me in between the rocks. Then we realized we’re going to have to leave the car there and walk, so to get back, we had to do something like a 20-point turn to get the car turned around and ready to go back out later.
We walked for a while, but we realized that we are actually on the wrong side of a gorge from the mountain with the fortress on it. Doh! But what we could see below the fortress was a whole bunch of caves in the side of the mountain facing us, with little wooden bridges connecting some of them! We were hopeful we could get to that somehow.
So we went back to the car and revisited Google satellite view. After a lot of poking around, we found a different path that we could take to the fortress. At this point, we knew the others had alread been at the restaurant for a while, but we couldn’t abandon our objective now!
We drove there on the new path, and yes, that was the right place because we found the church that we were able to see from the satellite view. And then we found the foot trail that leads up to the top.
The views from the top were awesome and it was actually a really fun climb and the ruins of the Fort were really great. It was actually like a bit of a castle because it had so many different walls. Both at the top and lower down, and there was a bit of a tower left standing as well.
By this time, we were being contacted by our fellow travelers who were waiting for us down at the restaurant. We managed to hike back down and drive back while they were still eating.
Dinner was at this really nice restaurant that also has its own fish farm and raises its own chickens, and other livestock as well. Really picturesque! The dinner was really terrific and our appetite was fierce after all that hiking and climbing!
Fortress Adventure #2
This was on the next day, but also a cool Fortress adventure.
Google took us wrong to get there again. We ended up on some back roads asking directions. We got to the foot of a path, and hiked up the hill like mad only to get to the actual parking lot for the fortress. But the lady was still there, and they let us go in and to the top of the tower. Whew!!
As always, the views from the top were fantastic, and with the sunset coming were even more stunning. Once we finished with the tower, they closed up and we could take our time around the rest of the ruins.
We finished that day too with a lovely dinner, this time by Slavica back at home. See the empty dishes? We all had such an appetite, that the food just disappeared! It was a full platter of amazing cabbage rolls, a pile of thin steaks, and a bowl of tomato and mixed salad. All gone!
