I zigzagged across the fields today following the tracks I had spotted on Google Earth, but whether it was the intended route of the E4 I could not say, somewhere in the general vicinity anyway.
The first settlement I came across was an almost completely abandoned group of farm buildings, rather eerie. A little later I began to question if I was on the right route. The route I had picked took me down a barely visible path beside a drainage ditch. Tall rushes filled the ditch which was fortunate as on the other side a dog, who should have been looking after his cows, was barking madly.
The path joined a track after several hundred metres, then the track joined a small road, nicely paved with blocks of stone at some distant time. After various turns I reached Farkaždin, which had some interesting looking houses, some with dates on them, either 1920s, 1930s or 1960s. I stocked up with food. The shop owner was most interested in what I was doing but we had no mutual language to converse in, unlike an English speaking agricultural engineer who stopped his car to have a chat a little later. There are few, if any, people walking through this part of Serbia so I am a bit of a novelty.
Next village was Idvor, birthplace of Mihajlo Pupin, a Serbian scientist who like Tesla had to go to the USA to achieve his scientific success. Then it was cris-crossing the fields again curving southwards as indicated by the map in "Rambling through Serbia" which took me through grassland peppered with purple Hungarian Statice and Rhone Aster, now passed their best, a change after the large fields of stubble, brown earth and occasional stands of maize that were typical of most of my walk today.
After much indecision I decided to camp in an area of scrub (hawthorn, sloe and rosehips) and grassland where I would not be noticed by passing vehicles. As dusk fell some owls (?) circled overhead as the first stars appeared.
A GPS file of my route is on wikiloc.com, it can also be found on ViewRanger.com as route johnpon0022, and on Wandermap.net. 30.7 kilometres walked today.
The first settlement I came across was an almost completely abandoned group of farm buildings, rather eerie. A little later I began to question if I was on the right route. The route I had picked took me down a barely visible path beside a drainage ditch. Tall rushes filled the ditch which was fortunate as on the other side a dog, who should have been looking after his cows, was barking madly.
The path joined a track after several hundred metres, then the track joined a small road, nicely paved with blocks of stone at some distant time. After various turns I reached Farkaždin, which had some interesting looking houses, some with dates on them, either 1920s, 1930s or 1960s. I stocked up with food. The shop owner was most interested in what I was doing but we had no mutual language to converse in, unlike an English speaking agricultural engineer who stopped his car to have a chat a little later. There are few, if any, people walking through this part of Serbia so I am a bit of a novelty.
Next village was Idvor, birthplace of Mihajlo Pupin, a Serbian scientist who like Tesla had to go to the USA to achieve his scientific success. Then it was cris-crossing the fields again curving southwards as indicated by the map in "Rambling through Serbia" which took me through grassland peppered with purple Hungarian Statice and Rhone Aster, now passed their best, a change after the large fields of stubble, brown earth and occasional stands of maize that were typical of most of my walk today.
After much indecision I decided to camp in an area of scrub (hawthorn, sloe and rosehips) and grassland where I would not be noticed by passing vehicles. As dusk fell some owls (?) circled overhead as the first stars appeared.
A GPS file of my route is on wikiloc.com, it can also be found on ViewRanger.com as route johnpon0022, and on Wandermap.net. 30.7 kilometres walked today.
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| Old roadway |
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| M Pupin's birthplace and typical house front of older houses |
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