This Wednesday was very warm, the scale on the thermometer went over the 37th division.
The weather was not pleasant for walking, so I only walked as much as was necessary to get to work and from work to get home.
However, the task I was given when I got home, buying a gift for tomorrow's visit, meant that I had to take some extra unplanned steps.
Around 8 pm, when the sun started to set and the temperature dropped a little (still over 30 degrees, but much more pleasant than during the day), I went to the nearby shopping center.
The idea was to travel three stops by bus, buy a present and quickly return home by bus.
But...
Due to the display of civil disobedience, after the large Vidovdan protest on Saturday, when the dictatorial regime in Serbia, wanting to prevent the gathering of a large number of participants, stopped all road and rail public transport in Serbia, the students who lead the blockades and protests called on the citizens for support - that we too cause chaos with the blockades and slightly disrupt the work of the institutions (which certainly do not work as they should).
I exited the mall and encountered blocked streets.
My neighbors pushed containers into the streets, put up traffic signs informing about the ban on traffic, and unfurled banners.
They stopped the bus service, and some cars that happened to be there at the time of the blocking somehow managed to escape through the side streets.
Only buses and police cars guarding the roadblock remained on the streets, besides a large number of my neighbors.
I was in no hurry to go home, and even though today's heat had exhausted all my strength, I enjoyed walking through the streets without crowds.
Normally, a large number of buses pass through these streets at any time (five strong city lines drive through these wide boulevards), and a large number of cars, but now, due to the blocked passages, the streets are empty of traffic.
How nice the silence in my neighborhood sounds, when there are no honking buses and cars.
I walked from barricade to barricade, took pictures of slogans and this "flying taxi" - which represents a great stupidity spoken and promised by the criminal president of the state of Serbia.
Later, I walked to my building.
Although forced, I really enjoyed this walk, because at the same time, I also supported my neighbors and students in the blockade, and at the same time took some interesting photos at dusk, which I shared with you now in #wednesdaywalk.
