I just did my weirdest Wednesday walk! At an abandoned place, not really sure where, as didn't check the exact location when I stepped out of the car. As you might know (or probably not), I am on a road trip, for the third day in a row. We have already driven some 2.300 km since Monday morning and stopped in some nice places in France and Italy (but the reports about those are not coming today).
Right now, my view is something like the photo above. Well, there is much much more, I really like these adventures when we travel and I feed my eyes with beautiful landscapes - mountains, sea, fields, cities, villages... And actually, my view also goes to the screen of the phone while I am uploading these photos and writing these lines. It is a pretty slow process, working on something from the phone while paying attention to the GPS at the same time sitting in the car sailing the roads (at least, it is not me driving :D )
So, back to the abandoned place and my Wednesday walk. We stopped at this former resort on the highway to stretch out our legs. This building is no longer in operation. It looks like this used to be a bar or a small shop, and there was also a gas station nearby. Across the highway, there is a gas station that still seems to be open.
There is plenty of greenery, trees and bushes, but also small paths and benches with tables. Seems like designed for a picnic area or for travellers who want to stop, rest and eat something. It is a pity the small shop doesn't work and this (could be nice) place is not used how it was planned. Nobody was there except us.
I noticed some covered bench & table areas too, with a cute roof. Many of them, so I am not sure if the architects of the place were too optimistic that there would be so many people resting here, or they just had excess material so they could build more of these lunch areas. Anyway, I liked them.
I also liked this meadow, with the cut grass. Looks like someone is maintaining this place after all. So I walked there up and down, getting my body moved. Well, I also run there, not having anyone around to ask itself what this person is doing in an abandoned place, running up and down on a meadow.
Down, behind the fence, I saw one hay bale, in this rounded shape. I really find them pretty and interesting, seeing them all around in the fields during the summer period. Though it was strange what this lonely hay bale was doing there. Just one, probably cut grass collected from the meadow (or maybe the space outside the fence).
Cute, isn't it?
The next object is a mystery. I don't know what it is, seriously. Hrvatske autoceste, it means Croatian highways (as yes, it was somewhere in Croatia) but I would not be able to say to you what this thing is supposed to do. Any idea what it could be?
P.S. at the end, I finished this post with a delay and not when I started to write it this early afternoon, as there was one closed road so we had to find an alternative and also a car crash that caused a traffic jam so my attention had to be somewhere else.