The day starts nice and warm and I like that. Nice and quiet breakfast in front of the tent, but before I do that I already have all the stuff next to the motorcycle. Only the tent is still evaporating its dew in the morning sun so that it can also be dry.
I pay 16 euros for two camping nights, start the engine and look for a wash box to hose down the engine. I don't have to be at the point of sale for tickets for President Tito's bunker until 11:00 am, so plenty of time.
With a shining engine I arrive at the ticket office and the young lady sets my Google for the route to the bunker. A 20 minute ride. Once there, the gate, which is guarded by soldiers, is still closed and only opens 3 times a day; 10, 12 and 2 p.m.
Just in time, the assembled group is allowed through, we park inside the gate and walk to the bunker. However, the entrance to the bunker is a very normal house. In the house we follow the stairs down and there unfolds a huge complex with corridors, meeting rooms, bedrooms, storage rooms, etc.
Enough space for President Tito (president of the former Yugoslavia from 1953-1980) to stay for 6 months together with 350 senior military personnel, civil servants and soldiers. The construction took 26 years and already cost $ 4.6 billion at the time. Workers were blindfolded and transported to the construction site, and Tito died a year after it was finished. The bunker has, fortunately, never been used for what it was made for and is really a trip back in time.
