I've seen it more this year than any other year
in Serbia the disparity between a city like Belgrade and elsewhere
I'm going to London today oh my God I get through passport control to discover that
Liz Truss the Prime Minister has resigned he couldn't make it up
good morning I'm so tired I'm at Nikola Tesla airport in Belgrade Serbia and this is the one
where I finally go back to my home country for the first time in a billion years well three yes I'm
going to London today oh my God and this video is kind of going to be half and half so I'm going to
do a little bit here and I can do the rest of it when I get to London because honestly I need to
fall asleep on one of the seats in the airport for a bit bloody Nora right let's go as you can see
there's a lot of work being done at the airport at the moment you get the A1 bus from there by
the way it's now 400 Dinars um I don't normally do this sort of travel Day video because honestly
filming with bags is a nightmare um I used to do them but generally I used to be just complaining
for the whole video so I stopped doing them air serbia 95 years of flying Aerodrom Nikola Tesla
ah right here goes nothing here we go 11 20 London Luton remember the days of Corona like
when you get to an airport you wouldn't know if your flight was running or not and it would just
be an endless list of canceled oh good times I just heard some English people I haven't heard
that accent for a long time I might do what I did in Mexico and pretend that I can't speak
English I can usually do it with Spanish but with Serbian maybe not so I might have to be
my Mexican Alter Ego today brilliant right who am I flying with I never know until the
last minute Wizz air I'm so stupid with those things with there I've already checked in online
so I don't need to worry about all that checking garbage and I only have carry on let's go up here
which passport should I use today it's like a game show this one shows how long I haven't been in the
UK it's my old UK passport from when the UK was in the EU there's my newish British passport which
I've had for about two years now and here's my brand new polish one which I generally use more
often now because it's more powerful than that one well a little bit more powerful especially
in the EU of course and this bag is still going strong I got it in a market in Mexico in 2018
for 280 pesos which is like a couple of dollars um it's lasted all this long it is disintegrating but
um it's lasted me four years so happy days well I'm through security time to go into duty free to
pretend to want to buy aftershaves but really what I'm doing is spraying all the testers on me if you
don't do that you're lying Issey Miyake Davidoff cool water I Don't Mind If I Do flip-flops I'm not
going to need them where I'm going A2 is my gate brilliant I've got far to go helvetic Airways as
I said I'm flying with Wizz air I'm assuming it's still flying from the UK what's the most annoying
thing for you in airports let me know down in the comments for me it's when you go through
security and there's a guy in front of you who's wearing every possible item of clothing that he
could possibly wear including a belt which he then takes about 20 minutes to take off also
people that go through security with a bottle of water then act surprised when they're told that
they can't take it through security like it's not 1986 anyway obviously top priority smoking area
so after some overpriced airport food my flight has now been delayed not once not twice but three
times it's now one hour and 40 minutes later than planned I booked a bus and all looks like
I have to pay for another one I noticed up there there's also a flight to London Heathrow I'm going
to Luton and the Heathrow one is also delayed it makes me think what's going on in the UK why
aren't the planes taking off have they run out of electricity has Liz trust resigned at the moment
it's a case of who's going to be prime minister this week it's a fun game isn't it there's my
plane it has taken off albeit over two hours late and it's now east of Frankfurt in Germany
I mean you can't really expect much from a poverty-stricken third world country like the
UK I mean maybe the air stewardesses didn't have any electricity to use their hair straighteners
who knows I was gonna say as well and I'll show you some shots from yesterday I got to Belgrade
from we should say very early in the morning I had a leisurely day in Belgrade you know it
didn't do anything special I went to Starbucks twice um because I'm a basic [ __ ] and I had a
Dodgy Pizza at a little pizza place got a dodgy stomach afterwards brilliant oh I just went to
the Fortress got some shots of the sunset went to hotel Moscow and just had a bit of a walk
down Knez Mihailova you know so um it was good to be back there again it's a city that I feel
like I know so well now that I cannot go to the bloody Fortress one more time you know
um it was so different from who should say oh my God which I'll come on to later right
let's have a look at this the plane has arrived Hallelujah better late than never
yes as always I'm at the back of the plane what a surprise just before I
actually highlighted the wrong plane it was the one behind me but whatever 25d
I think Christ it's an RC so no sexy taking off shots today
right welcome to the UK cheers Starbucks doesn't even have Wi-Fi that's how backwards this country
is it took me probably about half an hour to get through passport control into my own country
because the e-gates didn't work it was absolute shambles there was uproar people were shouting
and screaming and effing and blinding I get through passport control what did I say earlier
to discover that Liz truss the Prime Minister has resigned you could make it up national express bus
to London Victoria however I am going to golders Green and then getting on the two
because I cannot face sitting on a bus for longer than necessary and actually it's the northern line
and that's what I'm staying on so it's all good and thankfully I can still use the same ticket
but I got online despite having missed that bus thanks to the delayed flight so all is not lost
We're now approaching Golders Green,
that's Golders Green. Please take all your belongings with you, thank you
thank you this is a typical North London High Street
the place is the sexiest babes don't show you anyway and let's go to the tube station
honestly I'm not that familiar with this area I used to work in Finchley for a bit
which is a little further to the South um how does it feel being back here a
bit weird to be honest honestly it just kind of feels like any other random country that
I've been to before and I've come back to it because it doesn't feel like home whatsoever
classic London bus I miss the old Routemasters from back in the day and by the way this area is
a large Jewish Community if I remember correctly but time to get on the Underground oh my accent's
coming back see if I can remember how to do this brilliant gold is green I'm going all the way down
to Battersea Power Station these two stations are new there we go I need a wee where's the bog right
let's get on the train this is Kennington change here for northbound northern line service via Bank
about to see Power Station station um this is Posh isn't it it's all very new
here we are Battersea not Battersea if you're a Londoner you don't pronounce the Ts all right yeah
New Station um extension to the northern line opened last year and there is Battersea power
station which has now been developed I believe into you know harsh apartments and all that
um I haven't been here really at all in my life maybe years ago when I was a kid um yeah
I didn't live around here right it looks like it's about to rain up there so I'm going to call it a
day and find my hostel I'll see you tomorrow morning with a bit about Serbia see you then
good morning it's Friday morning it's the next day and I'm on Clapham common which is actually
the site of quite a high profile murder from the early 90s but anyway I need to find a bench to
sit down to do the Serbia a bit this bit I've kind of half planned and not planned because I wanted
to talk quite freely about it and as I said in the last video I know that serbs in general at
my experience over the years is that you really appreciate honesty and you know straight talking
commentary about your country and honestly I don't understand what other way there is like
I'm not gonna lie am I I've seen it more this year than any other year in Serbia the disparity
between a city like Belgrade and elsewhere and you know that's not exactly Earth chattering or
groundbreaking is it because it's the same in any country larger cities and Capital Cities
generally have more investment than smaller cities towns Villages rural areas Farmland but this year
staying in Uzice for so long and visiting places in the vicinity have really made me see that more
and it's just like night and day you know but if you go to places like Kraljevo, Jagodina and
Nova Varos places I've filmed videos in this year those are the places I probably felt it the most
the dereliction the lack of investment the almost it's been forgotten about you know and and I'm not
saying that everywhere in a country needs to be a tourist location because it doesn't it would be
boring if every town in a country had an aqua Park oh God the aqua Park I would rather kill myself
and go to an aqua Park FYI which leads me on to the second point about people behavior and mood
um I think there's a stereotype with Serbia and surrounding countries just because it's a Balkan
country and Slavic speaking language that there tends to be this belief that everyone is straight
talking honest rude aggressive honestly there is an element of that I'm not gonna lie but for me
it's totally me I think that's why I feel like I fit in so well in Serbia because that's my
nature as well you know I'm not going to be fake polite and fake happy all the time I'm
really struggling in London like like holding doors open for people and like saying hello
it's so alien you know that's just what people are like and particularly in those smaller places
well you do see it more sometime to the level of aggression particularly with men I'll come on to
men in a second actually but what I'm saying is that if you are someone who's never been to Serbia
or a surrounding country before and perhaps you're from Western Europe or Latin America you know many
of my viewers are from Mexico where everyone is very polite you know almost fake polite used to
really annoy me you might think that everyone is being rude but that's not the intention it's
just the front that people put on in a way once you get to know people who wants to get talking
to people they're the same as everyone else you know I think you know people's background and
upbringing can really shape your behavior you know I'm from West London not the best area you
know I grew up having to be quite independent and wary of my surroundings because I lived in a dump
which is actually where we're gonna go in the next video good luck and the man bit the men bit rather
uh you know there was a guy in Jagodina I was standing on the street trying to get Wi-Fi at the
bank right um and there was plenty of room for him to walk around me he just walked straight into me
and then like made a point of like pointing like move over there like in a really aggressive tone
I was like what the [ __ ] mate what you're on about and there were other things with men as well
particularly living in which honestly was like stepping back in time to 1994 in many ways nothing
against it you should say I love it but men you know you get the typical man who is 40 year old
like me um spends all day in a betting shop shaved head that's the only way to look the type of guy
that still thinks that moisturizer is gay or something that women do um that's probably why
they look 20 years older than they actually are moisturizer I'm 40. the last bit is the slightly
controversial bit about traditional family values in mid September September I went to Belgrade for
one day to actually film that brutalist video but it just so happened on the same day was Euro pride
and there was chaos you know I believe it was banned and but it happened anyway there is this
thing in Serbia with traditional Family Values Orthodox Christianity having a regular normal
life or seen as normal you know but the fact is we're in 2022 there's different ways of living
and I understand that again because of upbringing and way of life that people have that view and
that's fine you know everyone has different views and different opinions but it's just a little bit
uncomfortable and it feels outdated and I think that contributes to the aggression thing and the
the feeling of just a little bit backwards it's just something that I think that Serbia could
improve on um obviously it takes a lot of time to change culturally and behaviorally but you
know we'll see mini Russia that was the thing that was in the back of my head throughout my
time in Serbia obviously we're living in a time of war between Ukraine and Russia neutrality for and
against the whole thing with the EU and Kosovo you know there's a lot going on in Serbia politically
obviously I'm not the expert on Serbian politics but there has been a feeling in the back of my
head that there's been a lot of support for Russia at the moment there was a place in who should say
with um I think it was a restaurant with a like a portrait of Mr Putin on the wall walking around
particularly in those areas of Serbia that is very pro-russia you know I don't want to get political
um this isn't the place for that but you know it's something I've noticed and that was the
point of of doing this little bit all right before I move on to film the first of two videos coming
from London which will be coming very soon I want to say two things number one despite everything I
just said still this year in Serbia as with every other time I've been in Serbia five times now I
had a [ __ ] amazing time part of my language but I feel like in this case that language is [ __ ]
appropriate I don't know serbs will appreciate my Straight talking directness as always
um and secondly just a huge thank you to everyone from Serbia particularly who have watched my
videos this year enjoyed them commented on them given me useful information aided to be in my
travel experience it has been unbelievable and I'm beyond grateful um the thing I love
about serbs as I always say is that when for example I get something wrong in a video which
let's face it is every time um you don't respond like a wanker you respond in an adult and nice
and educational Manner and it's just um really refreshing because in many countries I've been
to in the past you just don't get that so that's one of the things really the people that has
made my experience in Serbia so special this year I'm going to get emotional now I'm not
just saying that to pander to service it's a [ __ ] truth all right there's a key or
something up there beautiful and I'll see you in the next video from my hometown oh [ __ ] I've not
been there in about a decade I'd intimately prepare myself see you soon catch you later