A shorter day today at 15.6 kilometres, a chance to give my feet a rest.
The Hotel Vojvodina where I am staying is very fine, and the check out time of 12:00 gave me the chance of a relaxed morning of breakfast, some shopping and general wandering around town, followed by coffee and a "snickers" cake, then a haircut back at the hotel. The shopping included water as despite the hotel's 4 stars it advises against drinking the water which is brownish, making you wonder if you flushed the toilet. Although the guidebook says the tap water is safe to drink in Serbia its quality is very variable, sometimes good, sometimes yellowish or brownish as in Zrenjanin and sometimes smelling strongly of hydrogen sulphide as in Melenci for example (possibly the result of "hot springs" contaminating the ground water).
The route today took me down the west side of the Becej river, initially down tree lined streets with single story housing, then opposite a selection of concrete silos, followed by a bit of country before reaching the bridge to Ečka. I walked over to see what all the men were doing. They were fishing from the bridge with nets about one metre square on the end of a length of rope. Their buckets suggested they were catching some eatable sized fish, carp at a guess. Ečka also has a hotel in an old hunting lodge or "Kastel" and a church with the rendering coming off showing the brickwork beneath.
Further on I left the river for the village of Lucino Selo after which the lake of Belo Jezero (white lake) came into view. My lodging for the night, Hotel Sibila, was on one side of the lake. Opposite the hotel is the Carska Bara nature reserve. I followed some of its paths among trees and reeds beside a shallow channel. After disturbing a heron and ducks, and spotting what might have been a great egret through the rushes, I returned to the hotel.
There was lots of shooting or so I thought, but as it repeated at regular intervals I concluded it must be something to scare the birds away from the fish farms next to the hotel. This evening I ate perch from the fish farm with "prom frits". We used to try to catch perch in the canals around Leicester when I was young, returning to the water any rare fish we caught. So I thought I would see what they tasted like. The taste was fine but separating the fine bones made eating a slow process.
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.
The Hotel Vojvodina where I am staying is very fine, and the check out time of 12:00 gave me the chance of a relaxed morning of breakfast, some shopping and general wandering around town, followed by coffee and a "snickers" cake, then a haircut back at the hotel. The shopping included water as despite the hotel's 4 stars it advises against drinking the water which is brownish, making you wonder if you flushed the toilet. Although the guidebook says the tap water is safe to drink in Serbia its quality is very variable, sometimes good, sometimes yellowish or brownish as in Zrenjanin and sometimes smelling strongly of hydrogen sulphide as in Melenci for example (possibly the result of "hot springs" contaminating the ground water).
The route today took me down the west side of the Becej river, initially down tree lined streets with single story housing, then opposite a selection of concrete silos, followed by a bit of country before reaching the bridge to Ečka. I walked over to see what all the men were doing. They were fishing from the bridge with nets about one metre square on the end of a length of rope. Their buckets suggested they were catching some eatable sized fish, carp at a guess. Ečka also has a hotel in an old hunting lodge or "Kastel" and a church with the rendering coming off showing the brickwork beneath.
Further on I left the river for the village of Lucino Selo after which the lake of Belo Jezero (white lake) came into view. My lodging for the night, Hotel Sibila, was on one side of the lake. Opposite the hotel is the Carska Bara nature reserve. I followed some of its paths among trees and reeds beside a shallow channel. After disturbing a heron and ducks, and spotting what might have been a great egret through the rushes, I returned to the hotel.
There was lots of shooting or so I thought, but as it repeated at regular intervals I concluded it must be something to scare the birds away from the fish farms next to the hotel. This evening I ate perch from the fish farm with "prom frits". We used to try to catch perch in the canals around Leicester when I was young, returning to the water any rare fish we caught. So I thought I would see what they tasted like. The taste was fine but separating the fine bones made eating a slow process.
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.
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| Belo Jezero Lake |
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| Carska Bara Nature reserve |
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