Yesterday Mexican today Ancient Roman

What does the title mean? Well it reflects the best chance I have of WiFi. Today we arrived in Kostolac our last stop in Serbia. We were taken to the archaeological dig of Viminacium. Which was a military stronghold in the 4th century. Someone has poured serious money into this site as a Roman villa (of a VERY grand style) has been constructed, supposedly in an authentic recreation. It is supposed to become a resort, opening next year. But it's sort of on the middle of a flat plain with not much around, except 3 coal burning Powerplants



The following are pictures of the reconstruction, starting with the exterior












The above fresco featured some sort of sporting dog, then in the picture below of the mosaic floor tiles, you can see the prototype of the 'Golden Arches'



As always a gift shop was included on the tour - the free local red wine was awful but free Wifi was great! (the ship is full of frustrated people as the promised wifi is mostly non functional and when it does work the download speed is 0.08 Mbps) I have learnt to type everything up in advance and just upload and retrieve email when an opportunity presents itself.
Back to the gift shop, we were given piece of Roman pottery with a saying on it
Here is David's - most appropriate (sorry I cannot rotate it)



We also got to see an excavated roman bath, then back to the ship for what is supposed to be an afternoon of scenic sailing

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