Tuesday 19711


left Belgrade, hopped on our bus for a good 2 hrs, all the while it smelled of burning oil, and grinding gears, till finally it died

so yeah there it is dead on the side of the road about 20km outside of Nis, also Kim is there. yeah we sat ariound for about an hour waiting for another older, more characterful bus to come pick us up and take us to some Roman Villa that the emperors used to chill at while visiting the frontier regions, it was particularly special for Constantine, being that he was born around here. the villa was apparently very large and awesome with gardens a full three bath bath house, storage for both local garrison and foodstuffs for the patricians traveling though. here is a shot of some of the lead pipes used to bring in water for the baths from the river, or maybe pipes used to bring drinking water in from the "mountains" (large hills), also to help induce insanity.

also vanit's legs

we also saw the tower of skulls which was a symbol of Ottoman badassery, turned Serb heroism. during one of the Serb uprisings in the 19th century was quashed by the Ottomans, and the Ottoman general Hersid Pasha ordered that a tower be built with the skulls of the Serb rebels embedded into the mortar.

im sure wiki knows more than i do
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_Tower

now we are at our new hotel in Nis, its definitively ex-communist style hotel, funstuff

its still hot, very very hot, prolly will fall asleep early tonight, and wake up stupid early.