Adventure

I am old and slow. I have about 30 years. That’s about median age of Serbian population. Likewise average Serb, I also remember the time when I worked in much larger country, in that country people were wealthy and happy. Nowadays I am used by those, who don’t have money, but have a lot of time (because I am always late!). I am happy now, because two youngsters are waiting for me in Novi Sad station. Yes, I am train.
I am woman.
My name is Maja. We met on first year of faculty. We share some passion – travel! This weekend we planed to go to see small town called Šid where our colleague is waiting for us.
My name is Nataša. After faculty I decided to come back here. I like my town – it is small, nit, near Danube river and national park Fruška Gora. It’s also near highway, that we used to call “Brotherhood and unity highway’’, it connects Serbia with Croatia. Due to war, now it’s more like a dead-end, rather then vivid near-border community. The town gives Serbia two famous people.
I am painter.
Sava Sumonovic. I was born in 1896. I stayed single child. My parents were rich and they afford me an education in Paris. There I paint like cubist, fauvist, but I got sick (like some of my famous predecessors – mental disease) and I went back to Šid. My paintings of a town covered in snow are still unsuppressed! 1942. WWII broke and Croatian fascists took me and killed me. My mother Persida gave to town all my master pieces and today you can enjoy in it in my gallery and you can see how I and my parents were living in our house.
Ilija Basicevic. Bosilj. I was born one year earlier then Sava. But, my parents were poor and my family was full of children. We were farmers. I was in internment camp in Austria. After liberation communists took me all my land. I started to paint when I was 60. World of my visions, dreams, mythology, religion you can see in Ilijanum, a gallery dedicated to my work, opened 1970, two years before my death.
I am bicycle.
After galleries they had lunch in some cozy, small, local restaurant, then, they decided to take me and my friend for some ride. We went to Fruska Gora, national park, a beautiful piece of nature, we visit some small villages, saw lovely lake called Sot (reserved for fishermen!) and went to Privina Glava monastery. I am perfect for those curios travelers who enjoy and appreciate time, nature, moment, fresh air…