Happy Sunday and welcome to northern serbia once again on this wonderfully magnificent
sunny day that was sarcasm by the way we are in the autonomous province of vojvodina once again
in northern serbia in previous videos we've been to subotica and in the last one we were in
novi sad today we are in sombor which is to the west south west of subotica and to the north
west of novi sad and if you saw the last video you'll know that the weather was atrocious but
somehow i managed to film a proper travel video this might be abandoned halfway
through because i don't know if i can stand to stand around in the rain for seven hours
filming a video would you do that probably not so on that note let's see what we can do
well wowsers that was quite literally divine right there was a service going on obviously it's sunday
morning i'm not going to be parading down the center aisle getting into the faces with a camera
but i love church organ music or choir music it's just so dramatic and majestic
and it really sets the scene that's probably the first time i've been in a church
anywhere in a video where i've actually heard an organ playing it's just stunning i love it
Sombor is in the district of Backa in Vojvodina and this building behind me this rather grand
piece of architecture is probably one of the most prominent sites here and it's
like an administrative municipal building but inside there is a ginormous piece of artwork
which depicts the battle of Senta which is a little town i believe to the east of Subotica
and there was a battle there many years ago obviously which was basically instrumental in
the downfall of the ottoman empire which i think is amazing you know that was such a important part
of history in europe and the fact that there's a little small town in northern serbia which was so
instrumental in that and now there is a piece of artwork in this building in Sombor which
demonstrates that which depicts that i think is cool i think it's um closed at the moment and
also i think you have to do like a tour to get in but i'll put a picture over the top well i would
have done that already by now got this nice little flower bed outside and um my first thoughts upon
seeing it it reminded me of like buckingham palace because it's got that big balcony at the front you
can imagine people coming out the front waving i don't know but i was going to say as well i've
probably said this a million times before but one of the things i love the most about serbia they're
not just serbia but countries in this region of europe is that you can just walk around in very
simplistic terms look at buildings and marvel at them because they are just so grand and uh
beautiful as well even in this weather yeah there's lots of pretty flowers all along here adds
a bit of color to this otherwise drab and dreary grim gloomy sundae who's interested in flowers
i've got to say i'm not but um yeah you might be i'm down this somewhat well not somewhat
it definitely is completely um deserted central street um and there are some really cool
statues down here there's this one with a guy with a book with a bird coming out of it
and there are a few more up the street as well
i like this statue because it's kind of a visual representation of me
during this video and the last one he's filming he has a look of absolute rage on his face it may
be miserable af today and people who live here probably have a better idea and are staying at
home this morning but once again we have another example of color on an otherwise horrendous day
so
now for any car geeks i seem to have stumbled upon what seems to be a yugo car park yugo a go-go
this one is like a creamy colored one tempo 1.1 litre engine i've seen a lot of tempos lately
there's a red one here i'm staying here love the red ones classic got a canary yellow one there
classic part of history not only in the form of yugoslavia but you know i believe um yugos were
also put together in the us as well if i remember correctly oh that's a zastava okay yeah oh don't
get me started on the whole zastava yugo argument you can watch a video i did last year which was a
um hugo tour it was actually a zest avatar there's another zastava i think there's an older one right
red one um i was gonna say my absolute dream would be to drive a yugo or zastava
across serbia i just recently got my new driving licence so if any of you are in maybe uzice or
bajina basta or vrnjacka banja um has a yugo or zastava that you'll be happy to lend to me don't
worry i'm a good driver i've been driving for 21 years never had an accident let me know because
that would be really cool like driving a yugo around the mountains in serbia really in hello
hello mate sunday market there are so many churches ensemble seem like three already
the building's in some ball they're just gorgeous
yes they're a little bit crumbling a little bit rustic a little bit worn and torn but it's part
of the charm i think that building over there i believe is the town hall with this little square
Sombor is the city of enlightenment the city of culture the town of architecture
yeah that's true the city of greenery yeah i've heard this or read this that it's a very
green lush kind of area um maybe not today and probably i'd have to go a bit out of
town to see a bit more greenery but that's what it would look like you know in the summer
maybe i should come back here in the summer that's a good idea okay the theme of this video is this
can you relate to this it's about not discounting large cities and towns not only when it comes to
travel but also living in a place i grew up in a large city and i've always been under
this belief that i was a city person particularly during my 20s and 30s mainly due to things like
career progression development opportunities and you could argue there is some truth in that but
as i've got older i'm 40 in five months can you believe it i very much more appreciate places like
Sombor Subotica as well when i first got here off the bus i just thought this place is so me it's
peaceful peace and quiet just is that an indicator of me getting old probably but that's life right
and uh there is so much to offer in a place like this despite the weather you don't need to be in
a city one of my english students is from belgrade and she actually calls herself a belgrade bastard
and i know what she means because i would describe myself as a london bastard when i lived in the uk
you'd kind of discount the rest of the country just because you're in the capital but
there is a lot more to countries than just the capital city
let me know what you think i'm looking for the national theatre it must be this building right
because there are pictures of performances but i was expecting some sort of grand building
never mind we've got some street art up here are these little busts and
murals on the wall are they like famous performers etc given that i'm near the theater i don't know
right we might have some food before i leave there is a restaurant here by the way
which might be better to come to when the weather's better um
which has like a fish pie um apparently some board is well known for its fish pie and also they do
like a chocolate cake and i think it's like a sacher torte i had it in vienna austria it's
like this beautiful chocolate cake probably one of the best chocolate cakes i've ever had i'll put
the decals down below but i'm heading to the bus station but first there's a bear crib up the road
hopefully it's open because i'm starving it's open praise the lord it's time to stock up for the bus
okay i've just got some various bakery items i had this yesterday
it's nothing special it's just a sausage roll looks like a penis
this on the other hand does not look like a penis it's like a triangular sesame seed cheese thing
with sierra never had that before and then we have this which looks interesting it looks like some
sort of donut i guess or am i going crazy nothing beats bakery items on a sunday morning in serbia
i haven't finished anything i'm just sampling for you and let's try this
what may or may not be a donut
yeah i think it's some sort of donut there's jam very bready
but it's not like a donut as in filling it's like underneath the top
nice that cheesy triangle sesame seed thing is brilliant also the sausage penis thing is also
good um it's the end of this video i'm at the bus station i'm going back to belgrade for a couple
more days actually and then i'm moving on to uzice which is going to be a base for the next four
weeks to explore the western southwestern region of serbia i wanted to end this by saying about
vojvodina i'm truly surprised right i would say that a lot of people including me might say that
serbia is just serbia and everywhere is the same but that's very silly because why would it be the
same considering the history in this region it shouldn't be a surprise that there's an area of
serbia that is drastically different in terms of culture people architecture history you name
it and i've loved it although i've only been to three cities clearly there's a lot more to explore
at least it's scratched the surface surprising interesting and intriguing and it's somewhere
that i would like to come back to so despite the weather i hope you've enjoyed these videos
um see you next time from uzice check out the end screens at the end and um see you soon thank the
lord i'm at the bus station let's pray for better weather in uzice see you next time catch you later