Day 10: Where are those new buildings?

Today, early in October, the sun was shining with only a slightly cool wind, and being a Sunday, we found we had more time on our hands than usual and our five minutes adventure became one lasting several hours. Our aim was to take a closer look at some new housing blocks we can see rising beyond a housing estate when we stand on our balcony.


We knew that they were building a new main road to take some of the traffic away from the roads on the western edge of the city and redirect the flow around the southwestern corner, but we had sen nothing of that other than the new junction at the western end. After making our way through the pleasant housing estate, where I got pictures of a locally made Zuk van and a classic 1970s Communist supermarket building still with its blue-painted aluminium roof cladding, now very faded, and some yellow flowers against the blue sky.


The road was a lot more advanced than we thought, and the new blocks were next to the new road. What we remembered the most was that the previous times we had adventured here it had been a mixture of fields and abandoned land. I have some great shots of a small combine harvester cutting the wheat in one of the fields now featuring a new block. The road follows the ridge, and the blocks are just south it, so the city has breasted another barrier on its ever-continuing push forward to the south.