Veliko Gradiste 1059 – Golubac 1043

For the journey, the nice lady gace us ripe apples&peaches from her garden as well as a bottle of home-made Rakija made of apples. The fruits are gone pretty soon cuz they smell & taste like serbian summer… we pass the huge lake located right before the “entrance” of the Iron Gate. Luckily, the wind has calmed down – it would have been pretty hard to cross with the strong koschava moving you rather upstream than downstream… in the evening, we landed in the middle of the Golubac fortress: for the 2 watergates Djerbdap I & II havebeen built, the pegel of the Danube went 30 meters up -  that’s why we could park there and climb a wall from the keks-roof! What a wicked fortress! and a strategic spot: the Serbians built it to fight the Osmans but 30 years later Golubac was alrdy conquered by them and kept for a few centuries… ironic. No1 of all the placed we stayed over night, perfect kulisse for the Keks – pirates meet serbian and osman soldiers -  in our minds …