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This post is about a 27km walk from Kladovo to Drobeta-Turnu Severin. I cross the border from Serbia to Romania via the Iron Gate I dam.
When I go to the supermarket in the morning to buy some provisions (mostly bananas, bread, and ayvar), I see a huge dude with a slogan on the back of his shirt: raised in the streets / the realest people don’t have a lot of friends / never trust nobody.
fortresses like dolls
I decide not to go directly to the border. First I want to see the 16th century Fetislam fortress. It’s currently under renovation, and its gate is not wide enough for the Caboose. It takes me a bit of walking around its walls to find another point of entry. Inside there is a sports ground and a football field.
The fortress itself is like a matryoshka doll: there are the outer walls and the inner walls, and then there are the walls of the fortress itself. And within the fortress, there are more walls. I walk around for a little while. The renovations have been funded by the European Union.
wind
The way to the border is windy. It’s exclusively headwind, and of course I take it personally. Why do you keep pushing me around? I ask, just like I have asked so many times before in the Gobi desert.
When I get to the border there’s a long line of cars and trucks. I decide to walk past all of them. There’s a uniformed man at the border who extends his hand toward me and says: “passport!” I feel a bit nervous. Will the permission that Aleksandra got from Belgrade really work?
oh dam
A few minutes later I am on the Iron Gates I dam that forms the border of Serbia and Romania. I am alone. Only occasionally a car zooms by. The water of the Danube is much higher on one side than on the other. I can hear it splashing down from the vents of the dam. A few trucks are waiting on the other side. I ask one of the drivers to take a photo of me and the Caboose.
Then we cross the border to Romania, the 12th country on The Longest Way.
pictures
walk from Kladovo to Drobeta-Turnu Severin:
Mrs. Mladenovic
Mladenovic Apartments
renovations funded by the EU
entry to the Fetislam fortress
inscription
inner walls of the Fetislam fortress
Fetislam fortress
sports ground
more walls
memorial that has something to do with a bus
memorial
more works funded by the EU
roadside memorial
memorial
Iron Gate I hydroelectric power plant
yet another memorial
the road to walk from Kladovo to the border
memorial
road to the border
Iron Gate I dam
on the dam
reaching Romania
The Longest Way on the Iron Gate I dam
Romania
Romanian flag
train bridge
be like this tree
the road from the border to Drobeta-Turnu Severin
Jesus at a roundabout
Corona Hotel billboard
empty swimming pool
found a stegosaurus
model of Trajan’s Bridge in Drobeta-Turnu Severin
SteffiJ.
Du hast wieder ein Stรผck Weg geschafft. Gratuliere. LG,Steffi aus Dresden
natalie
12th country – wow, congratulations!
Benjamin K.
Your photos suggest, that Serbia is emptying due to road accidents, but a professor explained yesterday, every 2 minutes someone from the western balkan coutries emmigrates to the EU, because you can earn four times as much as in the countries that are not yet members.