So about my trip. Objectively it's nothing special but I really enjoyed it despite the pain. After a day of random irrelevant events, me, sis and 3 friends went to the place that's around 13 km away from my town on a friends birthday. She has thrown up a nice party, we brought guitar and keyboard and had a good time. The plan was for me and my best friend(T from the Draw life thread) to sleep at her place, visit our former classmate, stay there for few hours and lunch and in the late afternoon catch up a train and continue our journey to Nis, regional center, where 3 major bands were to play the big gig in the eve. Host's parents had to go somewhere, she had to look after her granny back in my town and there we were, in the center of village(which is kind of dangerous) in the 4 am, we couldn't visit our classmate until 9 and we'd just waste our time until he's up. So we got the idea, why not walk to the Nis on the railway, in the middle of the night. 25 km of tracks, OMG great idea :D
So we hit the rails. That's the feeling I love, sense of freedom you have. We encountered various stuff while traveling. Headless snake still wiggling, full corpse of a dog and many bones on the way, the biggest pile of glass I've ever seen, we chased a rabbit, had a moaning conversations with someone under the overpass, met some weirdo granny with a sickle that we wanted to made fun of but she gave us the scariest look ever... We dodged 7 or 8 trains on the way but there was one that came from behind the curve so we didn't see it and it didn't honk so we were lucky there was a small place in the thorned bushes on the side just where we were... But the most intense experience was "The Bridge". It was a train-only bridge over the river that we took instead of the road so we stay on tracks. There were few wooden platforms on the side but not enough space. Metal plates for walking in the middle were really shaky. Running over it was impossible and judging by semaphore trains was to come soon. If it caught us while we were on it I doubt we would have to run, and I doubt no injuries could happen. It wasn't action packed but the tension we felt while crossing it is what I'll never forget.
So I managed to destroy my sneakers on the inside to the point that sole's grid destroyed my heel. ****ty things about rails that you have to make either too long or too short steps if you want to walk on the sills only. Those, rocks(big gravels) really hurt our thin soles. We didn't even took a break, just kept repeating"Nis, Nis" xD We arrived to the city's center around 10 am and then realized that we have no meals that we planned and the whole day to spend there. Almost fell for temptation to return to my town at noon, we were that sleepy... This part was also interesting for us but I won't mention everything as it's pointless. There was a basketball tournament with cheerleaders and some kudo show-offs, we came by sports betting to enjoy Liverpool beating Manchester United and explored the city further like we don't know it well enough already.
There were 3 bands as I already mentioned. The first 2 are completes opposites, they're like 2 offsprings of cult band EKV.
Block Out was stunning and absolutely not commercial, they haven't even introduced or said goodbye.
Van Gogh is ok band musically but their frontman is one of the best showman's I've ever seen. The atmosphere was explosive. We met some awesome people when I pushed someone and started moshpit. The last act was
Bajaga but I've already seen them in much better edition few years ago so it was kind of lame conclusion. Lot of our former classmates joined us when the second band started so we returned with them. In the end, it turned out that we had to walk for another 5-6 kms to get home as no taxis were available at the trains station at 4 am... So my legs destroyed and awesome experience. Story time with Sigurd ended.
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