i can't believe it the intoxicating smell of the pine one last hugo I
might as well have a bottle of wine nova varos just went top tier
hi everyone and welcome hope you're doing well today once again you have caught me as per usual
somewhere in the middle of serbia i am in the small town of nova varos in the district of
zlatibor about one hour 20 minutes away on the bus from uzice that was difficult it's surrounded by
pine trees there is wonderful scenery i've been here for a little while and i've been
walking around and honestly it's not the most interesting place on the planet on face value
but you know what we do in that situation we make it interesting starting with this
oh look the sun's coming out i want you to take my jacket off it's getting a bit warm actually it's
the beginning of september so it's not winter yet but this is what we're here to see it's a ropeway
ski lift which honestly has seen better days so you know this whole area as with zlatibor the
district itself skiing is quite common obviously not this time of year so you have these ski lifts
um but you know this looks a little bit derelict when was the last time this was used i mean down
here you've got this hell hole which clearly has been used as a junkyard for quite a while
there's the seat there lovely
so like i said it's quite small um i can see like what looks like a church in the distance
uh the bus station down there somewhere there's lots of places to eat and as you'd imagine because
of the um pine trees what am i doing this for um there's lots of hiking opportunities in the region
look pinecones they're everywhere for a minute i thought they were dog turds
these are pine cones aren't they and apparently this is how nova varos came into being because
of the intoxicating smell of the pine and look at it when the sun comes out it's stunning isn't it
it's time for a walk around the town just everyday life in serbia people hang in there washing up
there's a bathtub behind that car shops which maybe were open in the 70s but you know there
are a variety of residential buildings here one sort of like that with this corrugated iron roof
and more modern ones as well beautiful let's zoom out right the jacket's off you know it's
that time of year beginning of september when it's a bit chilly in the morning so you put a coat on
you get to 11 o'clock and it's boiling hot but give it a few months i'll be moaning about cold
i'm at the local church as per usual um let's take a look inside i'm going to have some food
after this because i'm absolutely ravenous i've got to collapse oh very nice it's um not as grand
as we've seen recently nice chandelier-like thing up there very colorful marble floors very white
who''s honking their halls outside right the honking behind me has stopped oh it's still
going on in the distance what is that about i see that in usual a lot like a big long cavalcade of
cars driving past with a serbian flag out the sunroof um whatever anyway in there there is a
shocking turn up for the books there's information about a monastery with my surname well the serbian
equivalent i guess ostrowski in polish um i'd have to google it i didn't know about that
i'm hoping i was reading it right these pine trees up here are something else they are imposing
yet absolutely stunning and um this town nova varos was also called jeni kasaba in turkish it's
gone by many names and meaning new town i believe because it's been burnt down twice why does that
keep happening yes obviously i know conflict and everything and territorial disputes but
um it seems to be a common theme um yeah and there's quite an interesting history to this
town i'll put a link down below as usual if you want to read more about it um but in the meantime
we're gonna have some food yugo alert a white one that yugo is parked outside what i believe is an
old factory or i can see machinery inside oh i've got a cobweb in my face brilliant there's another
factory up the other end i think it might be a brewery i can never say that word oh we've got
a serbian dog barking up there um i was gonna say i'm assuming a lot of the industry around here as
in buying a bachelor i've still got a spider up my nose um and throughout this butterball is to
do with logging i've completely messed that sentence up you know what i mean like lumber
this is the serbian countryside we've had a yugo now we have a zastava another old looking car here
i don't want to get too close because i always get shouted out understandably is this a mosque i can
hear in the distance i didn't know this was here i guess we are getting closer to the south of serbia
i believe uh novi pazar is predominantly muslim or largely muslim let's have a look it is i mean
obviously we heard the call to prayer but there's also the star on the moon islam on the gate
so yeah if you didn't know serbia is very diverse in terms of religion depending on
where you are in the country really as i said neighbouring countries have
large muslim populations as i said i'm really hungry so i'm going to include something i
haven't included in a serbia video since 2020 2019 yes we're having burek right unsurprisingly they
didn't have any left honestly it's a little bit late in the day well it's like midday but
that's late for burek and so instead i got pita sirnica is that what it's called like i don't want
to start that storyline again from a few years ago where there were people arguing from all over
the balkans about what something was called um but it's similar all right it's pastry it's cheese and
of course yogurt so in the spirit of final season david i'm sure serbs will understand my humor here
honestly i really don't give a flying [ __ ] what it's called it's food and it's got cheese
and as always it's that amazing sort of pastry that just sort of comes apart look and it's kind
of like that as well so it's not all crispy inside it's very soft as with burek pita sirnica whatever
oh that is so cheesy as always the cheese inside is kind of like cottage cheese but different and
it's very strong actually it almost tastes as strong as like blue cheese stilton this is nice
now you notice there is an knife and fork but i'm eating it with me and because i'm a chav and it
is very greasy so if you're having something like this for the first time i would advise using the
knife and fork honestly i feel like i've just agreed to become a surrogate mother except the
baby is made out of cheese that'd be good wouldn't it a cheese baby anyway right it's time for a real
talk i hate when people say that a real talk with a CIGARETTE um yeah this sort of place is lovely
right but this is where my kryptonite comes out to play my kryptonite is language stupidness or
over expectations when it comes to language obviously i'm not fluent in every single language
in the entire world that's never going to happen but because i'm a lazy entitled english speaker or
as society calls english speakers i feel like i need to know every language in the world
you know i go in there i order in serbian but then something will be said which i don't understand
and immediately i'm taken over with this absolute overwhelming feeling of i'm an absolute dumb ass
um you know but it can't be helps and that's one of the things with coming to small towns
and coming off the beaten track is that you do need to speak more of the language and it can be
a struggle if you're not willing to do that or you haven't got that capability so um you know it's
been a good thing overall because you know i have learned a lot about language cyrillic i can read
potato up there it remains to be a challenge even after six years um so apologies to any serbs by
the way because of the language confusion i forgot to remember how much it was i think it was about
200 for that lot maybe 250 i don't know that's a bit expensive in it i did have a drink as well
drink yogurt and pita sirnica or whatever the [ __ ] it's called right i'm full of food lovely
jubbly only falls in horses joke did you catch it i am in serbia um i just saw a horrendous
residential building with lettering on the side of it which means i'm drawn to it like a moth
to a flame or was it a pig in [ __ ] i can't remember this is my kind of place concrete
stairways big bits of concrete lettering up there INEX what's i next oh it says on the oh no
it's just nova varos okay i don't know what it is but look we've got a residential building up here
oh it's quite nice actually look you know people have made it quite nice with the little flowers
on the balconies but like this decaying crumbling concrete is one of the things i love about serbia
also sort of overgrown with grass and moss coming out through the gaps in between
this is what i like about it around the back it almost looks industrial you know with that roof
oh i don't know maybe it was these water fountains pretty much anywhere in serbia
they're brilliant like i remember one somewhere it was like natural spring water i'm assuming
this is the same because people do drink out of them and there's a cemetery through there
the rolling hills of serbia who would have thought it
is that a ski slope in the winter someone let me know because that's where the ski
lift goes up to as i said it's beginning of september later in the year i'm sure this
will all be nice and orange and gold which is apt because zlatibor the mountain range around here
that word means gold (or goldsmith) in serbian i'm full of useful information useless look at the
beautiful blue skies and look at this beautiful building yes i'm being serious well actually i
just want to show off look at the length of that word electro distribution look at me
these trees really go as far as the eye can see
and just look at that beautiful picture perfect view with the church
in the foreground and those trees in the distance with that blue sky the colours are exceptional
nova varos really is a retro classic car enthusiast dream we've got a lada they're
everywhere sorry we're going architecture mode now um i have a feeling these buildings were they
previously like regular concrete tower blocks and were then renovated with that bit on the top let's
look at it from up here i saw a building over here that one in the center of the screen that is
so 1960s felt um where i'm from i mentioned it in one of the last videos you know the buildings that
were built then but we're kind of still around when i was a kid in the 80s yes i'm that old
did you come up this hill just look at it you've got this tiny like hidden
church with a cemetery that looks much more modern how cute is that nova varos shocked us
who's us who knew serbian cemeteries could be so stunning just look at the setting i
mean when i die i basically just want to have my corpse donated to medical research i don't want
a funeral i don't want a gravestone but if i did want one this is the sort of place i would want it
look at this i can't believe it there doesn't seem to be
anything on google maps detailing this and when i was researching this video i didn't find any
information about this tiny little church look it's all overgrown look at these steps
oh 1938 it says on that window but that wasn't when it was built right maybe that was just some
sort of commemoration thing i don't know what i find truly spectacular even this window which
i'm guessing was a stained glass window has been like not boarded up like cemented up literally
never seen that before it's hidden beneath this monstrous tree it kind of reminds me of my junior
school when i was a kid we had a tree like this in the uh playground it was bigger though i think it
was an oak tree i don't know my mum will know ask her so i managed to exit that awesome graveyard
down there without trampling over people's graves and look there's more industry down there look at
those hills going off into the distance so up this way a bit further out of town there are
observation decks and viewpoints up this way so you can really walk quite far out of town
into these rolling hills and the serbian green lush countryside um if you have all day which i
don't i've gotta get back for the bus it won't be a serbia video without a beautiful angel
oh it doesn't like me i'm repelling cats at last one last yugo today really has been yugo overload
so nova varos just went top tier mainly thanks to that church back there or whatever it is um well
done um also i hope the drone shots throughout this video give you a bit of an insight into
just how kind of nestled within greenery a place like nova varos is kind of similar in a way
with greenery around it and also similar is the type of houses located around here and what i
said earlier about it not see seeming interesting on face value that's the thing because when we
don't have a 10 things to do list or must see in insert location or you get shot list we have
the opportunity to actually explore and find the things that actually interest us like ski lifts
and graffiti and you know you name it i went to the eiffel tower in paris once right i'm sure many
of you have as well um did it really fascinate me no i just ticked it off and said yeah eiffel tower
brilliant i'm not gonna remember that though no i'm gonna remember that church message of the day
let me ask you a question what do you think i prefer a sexy insta babe
on the beach with her tits out for views all this [ __ ] i think you know the answer by now like
i think this shop i walked past it earlier like it must have been a shot because it's got
stuff that was for sale 2008 2009. um as you can see it's a bit like that factory earlier deserted
and this sort of stuff fascinates me the old font lettering of the shop you know
underneath this residential concrete building
you know i really like the level of sort of industrial slash urban decay
in nova varos i wasn't expecting it you've got that but the absolute flip side of that
is the beauty oh there's music in the distance is it another wedding
so here we are i'm in aleksandar cafe while i'm waiting for the bus i thought
might as well have a bottle of wine um this is becoming a habit right two videos in a row i don't
drink um well clearly now i do um we have white wine brilliant we got wine we got copyrighted
music but i think it's okay and it's just uh on the main street there's the bus station up to the
left there where my finger is and that's where we came from up that way so um all the cops are here
what's going on i'm really pleased with the serbia series so far let me know what you think of it in
the comments down below i think i've been really lucky oh my god there's the bus oh no don't worry
it's the other one and i've been fortunate with um places so far you know of ovcar bankja, cacak,
obviously i'm staying in uzice, pozega and now nova varoa all of them have been surprising as
sexy youtubers say um long may continue cheers right after my glass of wine i've got my bus
ticket and i'm back at this concrete monstrosity of a bus station which i love by the way the woman
in the bus ticket thing was bloody brilliant like the nicest woman i've ever met in my life
well definitely in serbia anyway um so i'll see you next time for episode six of my serbia series
for this year we're continuing the zlatibor theme um hopefully um see you next time catch you later