hi everyone and welcome back to Serbia after being stranded in Belarus for
three months I returned to Belgrade to finish what I started
among other things we've had cevapcici honestly I could have brought
ten of these, been to Zemun, it feels like that I feel like I've gone from like the big
city to the small area, done an epic food tour with Igor from Belgrade eats,
let's get going. scaled brutalist architecture in Novi Beograd and
explored the former Yugoslavia's history in a 70s Zastava what more is
there to see enjoy the flavour because Rakija has a lot of flavour it does
right let's get started hello everyone and welcome back we are today doing what
we're doing Igor we're doing a hike up to Kosudnak, it's a hill and a
forest nearby and we took a detour to an abandoned Factory/refinery, yes abandoned
Belgrade that is the theme today and welcome back to Igor let's get going
look we found an abandoned keyboard Amiga 500 it's got windows so it must be
reasonably..., there's another one over there, right should we get up here, sure we could try, (glass sound) what was that? I don't know, I may be 38
but I'm still relatively flexible oh it's just the random glass falling off the
window
what are these on the floor rice boxes. Bambi, the company that makes plazma, no way,
plazma makes a return, a box of plazma, or it was once, yeah ancient plasma
I think it was built somewhere in the 1900s, and we don't know why it was abandoned? yeah I think it was abandoned in the 50s or something I'm not sure
a stairway that goes to nowhere
mysterious liquids on the floor could there be a resident. I don't know if anyone lives here.
it's like an old office or something there's a desk there's a bit of paper
book thing down there. bits of paper
oh hang on a minute is this to do with that rice thing magic Beograd
what is magic Beograd you know I can't see any dates on these, Oh 1999
yeah yeah magic what is magic it's spelt magic I love magic don't we all huns
did we actually say that it's a sugar refinery Ican't remember well it
was a sugar refinery and we're going upstairs now
lots of graffiti 2013
no signs of life
apart from a, is that a Red Bull someone's been a recently
walking over crumpled bits of plaster and concrete and glass with no
with no regard to your safety but that's life I think we just discovered who
magic were looks like they were a cleaning company because there are things like
silicon free wash and shine lots of that I guess, and barcodes
Cobwebs, what's this? I hope nothing is toxic. Beograd Yugoslavia, yeah that's the actual address we're at, there we go the focus is better now
Yeah not Serbia, Yugoslavia
yeah this bits cool it looks, so you say there's like a cafe? This is the, the outside bit is the cafe
and this building's like half collapsed up there and windows all smashed. Hi huns
right we've taken a break from exploring abandoned sugar refineries or plazma
factories we've got some food right yes we got a few sis cevap which is
like a Serbian version of a shish kebab then it's wrapped in bacon this just
became a food video, so what is it exactly like pita bread? yeah it's
like a pita bread that's been baked like what do you call them a bun? yeah
yeah and the meat is they I think a mix of pork and beef and it's wrapped in
pancetta beautiful and look at the size of this this is massive humongous so you
wouldn't normally have this time, what time is it 12pm? yeah 12 o'clock, Jesus christ! pretty heavy and fatty
mmm
meat good bacon good mayonnaise and mustard good no onion or lettuce good
awesome and yeah pancetta so it's not like thick bacon, yeah I guess it's not like bacon you would usually have in the west, it's more like Italian pancetta where it's smoked and dried for a long period of time so
it's like a cross between cevap and shish kebab it's the same kind of bread in it and now we're
heading into the forest to see various things we're continuing our urban
exploration kind of but what's this? we're at our first spot
ok this right here is a monument built by the German field
Marshal August von mackensen in 1915 so, in 1915 Serbia was invaded it for the second time in the first
world by Germany Austria Hungary and Bulgaria from three sides so it was only
a matter of time before the whole country fell there was a huge defense of
Belgrade in 1915 and the german general that was commanding
the invasion was inspired and surprised by the bravery of the Serb defenders so
before he continued after capturing Belgrade he took his time to bury all
the fallen defenders right here and he built a monument and says here lies
the serbian heroes which means he lies the Serbian heroes. Here lies serbian heroes Serbian and German
here lies serbian heroes
And also just about 20 meters away from that first world war Serbian
monument is another one that's from the second world war
it's a Nazi monument and they're saying that this was this is their left up
during the Second World War the Germans actually came back here where they built
a monument to the Serbian defenders and built a bigger more grand monument to
their own invasion forces perished during the 1941 attacks. so we're at what we think
was an abandoned house from the 17th century where outlaws used to come to to
hide but we think it might have been renovated now. It used to house the forester or the forester's house or something, oh it's open
is there a dead body in here? there are flies buzzing. Maybe there are some other dead animals
all right we're going uphill I'm glad this isn't two and a half thousand
meters they've got birds singing insects making whatever noise they make possibly
been bitten by mosquitoes where we go next Igor I will just be going
through the forest until we reach Topcider Park, awesome
right this is surprisingly cool because
we're at like a natural spring and we've just filled up our water bottles it's
cold it's fresh it's clean I've never comes out of a spring before
I used to live in a road called spring road believe or not and it's really cool
because there's locals just coming here getting bottles of water filling that
there's an old woman over there eating berries off the tree which Igor has one
of what is this called? It's called a dud, or Dudinje, let's try and get the focus right, brilliant
its bit like a raspberry I've never seen one of them before yeah but it grows on a tree instead of a bush, oh yeah of
course this is real life in Belgrade and
for anyone that says Belgrade is full of old grey buildings and there
are no green areas hello this is a second oldest train station in Serbia
was built in 1884 right after the first train station was built in Belgrade the
big one oh yeah this is the first stop on the way to Niš okay Niš so as well
as being a tram nerd I'm also a train nerd look at the graffiti on it, bloody
hot! there's a plane going over we're just about to cross this rickety bridge
and because I quite enjoy climbing over to dilapidated things we're gonna do it but
there's a barrier maybe we shouldn't. I think I crossed last time
oh it should be fine here yeah what's the worst that could happen so we're
heading into Topčider Park
cannon Park, Cannon Valley sorry brilliant, watch out there's a hole, the river's not that deep
oh we made it yeah we're at a nice building now with nice little alfresco dining
we're gonna have some more stuff aren't we yes we're going to have rakija, brilliant
yes so this is the I guess quintessential Serbian drink and around
all the Balkans like you have back Ian Macedonia and Albania and Croatia and
Bosnia and basically it's not the fruit which it's made its process it's using the
special kettle to brew rakija and you can basically make it from any fruits and this right
here is honey rakia honey rakia beautiful Živeli oh it's
really nice so we sip we don't knock it back like a shot enjoy the flavour
because rakija has a lot of flavour it does it's my first rakija by the way, cheers,
Na zdrowie, that's Russian yeah I'm still in Minsk, you can say Na zdrowie but
Živeli means let's live Živeli it's nice, so there's honey, apricot, plum
pear I'm sure I've seen other ones grape, there's
peach as well there's basically a thousand different, there's cherry,
how's the rakija, one of the best you've ever had one of the best I've ever had it's
really flavorful
awesome right we've had rakija and it was beautiful and this building is the first
residence of the modern royal family in Serbia Igor has told me and outside of
it is this tree which is absolutely insane it's called a London plane tree
because it's a hybrid originating in the UK a bit like me I'm a hybrid I'm 31
percent Serbian well maybe not Balkan and only 38 percent English but besides
that it's like supported by these beams and the tree is like growing around it
it's amazing it's about a hundred and fifty years old huge we're our Chapel
and I'm glad I did not bring my trumpet because trumpets are not allowed it has something
do it weddings right oh look at that
look at all the gold
oh it is quite special I love churches and chapels yeah it's not massive
but it's quite compact and you know cute actually loads of gold and what I love
about the serbian churches i feel like there's something missing
where are the pews and that's what they're called the things you sit on
but yeah around the outside are the things you sit on interesting
Mount Athos in Greece which is the monastic centre for all Orthadox Christians and over there they pray similar to Muslims
oh i see, on the floor, yeah, interesting
yeah of course Orthodox Christianity well we're coming
to the end of this video now just to point out how far we've come today all
the way over there apparently and now we're here still in the same forest
yeah pretty much just bisected by different road yeah so we're just walking back and we're in wait for it
Senjak which is a rich district I look like I'm really short, I'm on the road
so rich district who knew there were rich districts in Belgrade there are actually two
yeah a lot of people think it's just Savamala and falling apart buildings
but no there are mansions with 15 entrances possibly in
the middle of a forest yeah it's a bit like, I was just saying it's a bit like
Polanco in Mexico City has the same kind of feel interesting
maybe we'll explore that in a future video who knows yeah so thanks to Igor
everyone once again for providing us with a multitude of historical
information my mind is overblown blown over I don't know but rakija it was
amazing sis cevap was also the best thing i've ever read in my whole life
and we've had an adventurous day and the whole point is what was it about Green
yeah yeah greenery mountains forests and stuff like that it's hiking yeah hiking
adventure exploration abandoned buildings= brilliant so I'm also check
out Belgrade Eats yeah we forgot that yeah if you want to
see where to eat in Belgrade yeah Instagram posts galore lovely we'll catch
you later, bye!