Golubac Fortress 1043 – some week-end house in Romania 1007

Another typical “marching day”: Have a sleep in and no breakfast before we attack  Golubac Fortress – high, higher and to the highest summit we climb! And feel like ancient kings of “Danubia”… The big freighters look like toys down there..

Letting our feet dangle, 3 of us enjoy the amazing view: Cliffy rocks forming vertical walls to both sides of the river, it’s really impressing after having traveled  all those weeks in totally flat regions! naked stones laugh at us because of our baby-like age. Still being right in the middle of the Iron Gate, we keep on driving, the sun sets. What a great feeling to float down the nighty river in the dark.. When we find a place to stay and ask the people if we can tow the boat there, we get a clear “no”; we tried to explain that we really need it and they sound quite pitiful: “No. Please!”. Ok, we’re pirates from the dark floods, but still!

Turning and picking some plants from the turbine, one of the guys goes like: “Hey! Why you not stay here?!” Really confused we turn again.

Finally, we get beer and have a nice evening with the guys on the veranda being surprised by German vocabulary like “Ferienwohnung” or “Bescheid”.