Jagodina like I said it's all very nice but I definitely feel its glory
days are over just look at this absolutely tremendous
It does look a bit like the Genex Tower in Belgrade an element of
Despair in the air it's that plus despondency and dereliction the 3 Ds
hello everyone and welcome now's my hair disastrous if the answer is yes we're good
to go welcome to part number 13 of my 2022 Serbia series on this very bright October
morning in central Serbia I'm in Jagodina which is to the east of Kragujevac which is actually
where I filmed a video last year and we're starting off today outside This Magnificent
mustard yellow canary yellow church with the sun shining on it let's have a look
just look at this absolutely tremendous and there's a reason I filmed the beginning bit
over there because there's a man over there on a bench talking to himself oh he's gone
now that's good so magnificent is absolutely the word because I mentioned the sunlight
look up the top here you can see the beams of sun entering through the windows at the top
all right and it's so detailed as well
as always as we see elsewhere in Serbia and that blue again I love that blue if I ever
buy a house again all my walls will be that color with the gold and the detail of the trees up there
well I've come outside to people were starting to go in I don't want to intrude anyway the sole
reason I've come here is to go to despotovac and manasija Monastery which will be coming in
an upcoming video which I'm excited about that's actually happening tomorrow I got drunk last night
on homemade wine in my Airbnb hence I got up a little bit late this morning right forgive me
well let's have a walk through this Saturday Morning Market still very Lively as always
I believe the name Jagodina comes from the Serbian word for strawberry Jagoda
honestly it's one of those videos where um I can't find any information anywhere about
Jagodina and even people from Serbia who have asked really don't know anything either so it's
a case of just discovering today oh this is nice isn't it it's like a covered market area
oh look lovely you've got everything you could possibly think of it seems cabbages onions eggs
and all sorts
Peppers or Paprika in uh Serbia are truly iconic like they're a staple part of many many meals
in fact I've kind of added it very much to my diet since I've been here pickled peppers isn't
there a tongue twister about that and avjar in jars like proper homemade stuff of course much
better than what you can get at maxi so colorful look red greens yellows oh thank you and within
this Market you've even got bakeries you've got pharmacies you've got butchers and everything
look at them there's even a kafana I think it's a bit too early for some rakija
although I will have another cigarette in a minute
you know me never mind tourist sites I see industry let's go and have a look
there's a guy with a chainsaw it seems like this is like the Back
Street Markets you know very industrial lots of car stuff and everything metallic
right I'm gonna go see some more pretty things in a minute before people start complaining that
I'm not perpetuating a myth of Utopia on YouTube oh wait that doesn't happen in Serbia brilliant
um yeah industry there are birds flying around all
around the top wonderful train tracks metaly things
I've noticed a lot of old buildings around here that look a little bit
derelict I think maybe from the late 1800s early 1900s I've seen
some with like 1926 at the top I'm assuming that's when they were built
as well as the obligatory zastavas we also have numerous churches and monasteries and
the Museum of naive and marginal art I read about that yesterday oh my God also an aqua
Park honestly that's not really my thing a wax museum oh yeah I read about that too right it
seems that the Museum of naive and marginal art it's undergoing some sort of renovation which
means thankfully I don't have to come up with some [ __ ] excuse as to why I didn't bother
going in I don't really care about art to be honest I've got no interest in it whatsoever
also how can art be naive I don't get it oh as you may know by now this is my kind of thing
did you see the video from Kraljevo with the uh abandoned train car we've got another one here
also there appear to be mattresses in there or not mattresses like blankets I'm assuming people were
living in there at some point proper industrial Serbia look at the station it seems it's in use
as in look at the windows they all look new apart from that one that's smashed it's a bit
like that one in um somewhere we went to project that's it if you're a train and bus station geek
Serbia is for you I love all the clocks that you get and also of course you know I'm a Cyrillic
alphabet geek oh I think it is open but honestly I still can't be asked right this wasn't meant
to be an abandoned places video but up there is hotel Jagodina a walk past there coming from the
bus station last night and it looks like it's seen better days let's have a look oh what's
this I'm just on the way to the hotel it's just around the corner I wonder what this building was
all right give me this any day over you know a bougie instababe in Paris who thinks Europe
is a country I'm assuming it was like a school maybe because there's like a basketball court
here and football pitch over here that I accessed through the hole in the fence
classic me it's like being in West London again in it like the best way to get into places is
through holes in fences or by breaking in Hotel Jagodina I was looking at pictures of this last
night online after I saw it walking here it doesn't look like it's been like this for long
was it like a 60s Hotel he's still got a chair over there like a desk there with
fans and like a log design on the back yeah it doesn't look that old oh and it did have Wi-Fi
so it can't be that old look in here in like the lobby bit it does look a bit like when I
went in the Genex Tower in Belgrade there's even a fountain over there if you can see it souvenir
restaurant as well kafana but this bit here is all sort of overgrown is this originally like a
fountain or something but the desk bit there looks very Genex just outside idea convenience store
concrete there's one particular viewer Jayne she loves this sort of thing might
seem you know pretty average and standard but we love it and look the hotel there
the curtains is very sort of 60 70 isn't it like I'd love to go in there
right we're finally in the Central Area lovely fountain
beautiful but to the left of me is a lot of construction they're digging up the road I don't
know why they're making it like pedestrianized or something I don't know or just rebuilding the road
no idea oh God YouMart there's one of them you should say the Chinese shop look at the
wonderful sights of Jagodina see what I mean about early 1900s the building that Maxi is in 1933
oh bloody dogs it's my bakery David how do you say my name in Serbian like I'm used
to doing it in Spanish David so we have some food this place classic we go please give it
so we got chicken we've got pljeskavica pizza look at all the chicken in there
i'd like a chicken burger please
um sorry about the screen it's flickering and we've
got lettuce we've got urnebes of course beautiful
okay thanks ciao
okay disaster Serbian conversation over I have pileci
batak like it's a double chicken burger with urnebes I think she was surprised that I didn't
want a salad because I don't like vegetables they're unnecessary Garden Products we're in
Serbia we eat meat of course it's got this iconic Serbian bread which is just brilliant it's huge
hmm roast meat it's got that roast filling you know taste rather it's really juicy and
moist chicken as well not that dry [ __ ] you get I am a true icon eating a burger
on a step we have urnebes and lots of it as well look at that bread soft and beautiful this chicken
is just so tasty like it's not like a chicken burger you get from McDonald's it's proper chicken
Patty with proper bread in Serbia right let's drive that tractor to go past
um as you can see behind me it's just a classic Serbian fast food place um and I noticed that
it's got the skin on it still the chicken I guess that's why it had the taste that it had
um but honestly I didn't want to have this I wanted to have the cheap cheap ass pizza from up
the road right I might still have that but YouTube reality moment you do get [ __ ] quite a lot like
you come to a country you come to a city whatever and you don't have the local Cuisine like you get
criticized or accused of not experiencing a local Gastronomy oh who gives a [ __ ] if you want to
explore the local Gastronomy tell me what you can do you can cover yourself um if you want to have
a cheap ass pizza but you have one um which is what I'm gonna have later so I've gone for a walk
to walk off that chicken and honestly Jagodina it's all very nice and everything and pretty but
there isn't really anything at this stage of this series that I haven't included already apart from
what's that speaking of this stage of this series I said at the beginning this is number 13 and
usually around this time I developed this kind of feeling of you know I just want to go somewhere
and have a walk around without knowing everything because you know always reciting a Litany of
encyclopedic information about the history of a place really does hamper my travel experience
so sometimes it's nice just to come somewhere and have a walk around not knowing anything you
know it's a bit like going to Paris for the week you know of course you're doing your research and
go to all the places you're meant to go to but you know sometimes it's nice to set a bloody day
off almost swore then so obviously it's the industry of some kind look at those windows
all smashed I'm assuming we can't get in there's some chimneys as well let's have a look in here
oh literally nothing oh this Machinery of some kind over there I think it's something to do with
fabric I can see the word fabric up there I don't know any of the other words but whatever all right
let's go up this way oh look conspiracy theorists would have a field day they're everywhere
it wouldn't be a Serbia video without making friends with a local cat or not as the case may be
Josanica monastery
up that way but it's a no unfortunately because honestly if I see one more Monastery I'm gonna
scream so I'm on my way home it's just up here and I'll show you my Airbnb actually in a minute
because it's a really nice one that'll flesh out this video because I'm gonna call it a day that
I will that guy beeping at me um yeah honestly there's nothing else here that interests me um I'm
not going to be a fake ass YouTuber by pretending that an aqua Park interests me in the slightest
but I'd rather jump off a bridge but Jagodina like I said it's all very nice but I definitely feel
it's Glory Days Are Over whether there were Glory Days in fact anyway um because just like in a
previous video when I said there was a an element of Despair in the air it's that plus despondency
and dereliction the 3 Ds I think that's not necessarily a bad thing because everywhere's like
that that's not a reflection on Serbia there are towns like this everywhere in every country you
know um it's just a shame in a way I'm sure for many people yoga dinner is bloody brilliant for
me it's not top tier let's face it right Airbnb residential small town Serbia oh this is my place
brilliant um yeah it has felt a bit like today most people I've interacted with kind of want
to beat me up but it's a bit like that in small town Serbia and throughout small town England
as well to be honest all right a little more flat in uh Serbia as well big winter staircase looks a
bit like a gulag up here but whatever where is it oh it's up there yes gulag here we go
right I'm home lovely let's have a look around so I've just booked this place for the weekend
it's 25 pounds a night I guess that's about 25 now given the economic collapse
um kitchen yeah I like this kitchen with the uh the green it's very nice and the little green
flooring there's also homemade wine 500 dinar which as you can see that's what I had last night
brilliant um let's go through here we have a little desk the pressure that's why I had
a dinner last night bathroom through here you know nothing special um in the bedroom
obviously I slept in the bed last night sorry I can't be asked to do
the bed who does that nowadays and now it's out here you have a nice balcony
with this lovely floor that's like astro turf like fake grass fluffy and a little
table and a balcony I mean table and an ashtray to smoke from if you're a dirty smoker like me
and there is classic small town residential Serbia with logs of course so that's another
video done in Serbia port number 13 complete let me sit down my feet hurt so tomorrow I've realized
I've [ __ ] up um so I was meant to get the bus today to the manasija monastery honestly but
um because I was drunk last night I didn't this morning um I've since discovered there are no
buses on a Sunday brilliant so I'm now I'm gonna have to either rent a car or get a taxi oh [ __ ]
um I'm sure I'll be fine I'm saving my energy for that one because it will be
hopefully top tier and I've been a bit of a better mood anyway uh see you next time
I'm gonna have a lie down and watch some cat videos see you soon catch you later