🇬🇧 I hope you enjoyed Čačak! Next up will be a 4K walkaround video in Užice followed by Požega and Nova Varoš! 🇷🇸 Nadam se da ste uživali u Čačak! Sledi 4K video za šetnju u Užice, a zatim u Požega i Novoj Varoš! 🇲🇽 ¡Espero que hayas disfrutado Čačak! ¡El próximo será un video de recorrido 4K en Užice seguido de Požega y Nova Varoš!
@@zoranagavrilovic9403 I guess we all can say something wrong about the people where we all have lived. There are rude and nice everyone on every corner on the earth. Yes the people I have met are awesome, warm and welcoming.
Hvala! At some point I'm planning to be up in Vojvodina again, I'm not sure about Novi Sad but it would be nice to see it when it's not raining this time haha
@@davidostrowski679 Hahaha, totally agreed, try to catch up a nice weather. Also, I really like your British accent, it sounds fabulous and awesome. Stay healthy, bro, keep your smile. You're always welcome in Serbia one more time :D
Thanks! The lady in the shop taught me zima the other day because I shivered so I then learnt hladno vruće zima leto haha. I have a question, is there the issue in Serbian with 'hot' as in Spanish, ie in Spanish if I say 'estoy caliente' that would mean I'm sexually aroused not temperature hot lol
@@davidostrowski679 Don't worry, in Serbia you can say vruće whenever you feel like it's vruće, it will never be considered as something sexually ;) But watch out when you go to eat pizza and say "vruća pica", that can mean something different in Serbian, as you probably can imagine, you get it ;)
As someone born in Čačak during the time of former Yugoslavia, who grew up in Chicago, I truly cannot describe how appreciative i am of people like yourself. To show an appreciation for our little city in the heart of Serbia, it tells a lot about your character! I've never been to the UK but have always wanted to visit and hopefully i can do that soon. You gained a new follower my friend. Pozdrav iz Čačka ❤️
Also, your comments about the importance of industrial cities/areas was spot on mate. Čačak is one of those places. And we take pride in that. Much love and safe travels ❤️
The Serbie dogs appear to be a bit more well kept than the Mexi dogs. Loved seeing a place I will never go and all it's everyday glory. The churches are amazing. So too, the landscape. Thanks David.
Definitely more well kept! I do miss those Mexidogs, they are iconic. It's just a shame how they came to be on the streets in the first place! Beautiful churches yes! Mexico and Serbia are probably my favorites for that. Serbian churches and Orthodox churches in the Balkans in general aren't as elaborate as grand cathedrals in Mexico on the exterior but they certainly make up for it inside!
@@davidostrowski679 Well, we do have the Spaniards to thank for all of that opulance all over the Latin region. FYI, they are investigating the local archbishop (archbishop 'bling' as we call him) in the DF for money laundering and hanging with the wrong crowd if you catch my drift. I digress, yes the humility of those Balkan churches and the illustrations on the inside are simply WOW. Stay safe.
Thanks man I'm trying my best! I have Serbian and other Slavic language speaking English students so they help very much! Plus my grandparents were Polish so some of the sounds are similar!
Absolutely Ljiljana! I was here a few years ago in Summer. It's definitely better than UK summer lol. Last year I was here in September/October and I remember one week it didn't stop raining for 7 days but I guess that's European life, we should be used to it haha. I'm in Požega right now... blue skies!
Congratulations, I'm from Čačak and I think you presented our city well! Great choice of topic - presentation of lesser known cities. All the best in your future work!
Brother, whenever you want and have a desire to come to Čačak, I live in the center of Čačak, just give me a call.. The video delighted me with every honor for people to see a little of our city.. ❤❤❤
thanks mate for this video. i’m living in usa but i’m from cacak and with this video you bring me some good memories. enjoy in serbia and wish you all the best
brilliant! you know what, you're not the only one to say this! (also with other cities). It reminds me of an article I discussed with an english student recently (she also left Serbia) about a lost generation of educated people who left in the 90s! Interesting read!
Thank you brother for this amazing video. Brought a little note of nostalgia of mine hometown to us who are far way. You are always welcomed. Only fools and horses :)
Those churches though! And the familiarity of the concrete grey buildings reminds me of where I grew up too. I think that's partly why I love brutalist architecture and the likes so much. Čačak looks great, even the crack den. Thanks David. I'm hoping you'll do another live stream like you did at new year (or was it Christmas?) before you hang up your passport and travelling shoes. ❤
I was thinking about doing a live the other night actually! I'm hoping RU-vid recommends this series to new people or the old Serbia subscribers reappear first. Usually takes about 5 or 6 videos before that happens so it'll be a ghost town until then. I'll be in London in October... will Buckingham Palace feature? I don't think so... graffiti, brutalism and chicken shops!
6:02 It says Vojvod Stepa -meaning War leader Stepa. The statue is of Stepan "Stepa" Stepanović Степан Степа Степановић, 1856-1929, was a Serbian military commander who fought in the Serbo-Turkish War, the Serbo-Bulgarian War, the First Balkan War, the Second Balkan War and World War I.
Amazing, thanks! When I see war statues sometimes I prefer not to say anything because I know I'll confuse all the conflicts. A friend of mine studies history in Belgrade, I don't know how he does it! Brain explosion!
Serbia is beautiful, Čačak is center of western Serbia and one of culturally most important cities... Love to see people from abroad giving it a try...
The monument to the hero, Tanasko Rajić (ТАНАСКО РАЈИЋ), shows with a sword where a very important battle took place (in which he died at the end), and that is where the monument and the church were built. The fight was against the Turks, that's why the church is dedicated to King Lazar, the winner of the battle in Kosovo. Yes, you are right, the church was built recently, but the monument was not. 😊
Amazing as always! Also u have a spot on Krusevac accent when you pronounce serbian words, like myself lol Carapan 100% (that's a nickname for people from Krusevac)
Haha thanks man! I'm planning to be filming another video in Kruševac at some point! Let me know if there's anything cool you'd want to see in a video!
@@davidostrowski679 u should, u covered a lot there, u can take a bus and go to Ribarska Banja, it's a little spa place, but lots of cool spots on that mountain 😊
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Love the Cacak song! And the cute, wet Serbidogs. Great haircut too! Interesting place. So mellow and chilly, compared to lively, warm Mexico! PS I think you prefer unfamiliarity because it appears to me that you get bored with familiarity after awhile. Just an observation. 🙃
If there's one person who would know that and also be able to predict likely future storylines, it's you Maria! I'll do a Patreon essay soon! Ambiguous foreshadowing!
I'm glad you went to my hometown Čačak, and it's great you went to see the beauty of our churches, but I can't believe you didn't go to Morava Beach in Čačak (we call it "kod Brane" which means at the Dam). it is the most beautiful and peaceful place to visit. Maybe next time... Have a safe travel and visit us again.
Haha everyone is saying this! I did actually go to the city beach but unfortunately I only did speaking shots and they were all really windy (like when I was walking over the bridge) so it ended up on the cutting room floor! I didn't realise not including it would cause so much chaos lol. I went there just after the bit with the pool I'll definitely try to come back as I'll be in Užice for another couple of months. Thanks man!
@@davidostrowski679 Did you visit Spomen Park? That's at the end of the main street Kneza Milosa. A huge park area with 3 giant monuments and 1 smaller one. You can view the whole city from there.
Hey there! New to the channel, and I just wanted to say that I recently moved to Čačak and have been exploring the town the same way you do so it was really fun to see you highlight all the little things that attracted me to this lovely town too. You got yourself a follower!
Awesome! I've never heard of anyone moving to Cacak out of choice LOL. Really cool city, right! I'm actually in the process of filming my final videos after 6 years of doing this so it's like you've appeared in the final season of Game of Thrones lol
@@davidostrowski679 Well, apart from all the cultural and natural beauty you highlighted, Čačak has extremely straightforward people which I love and appreciate since it's hard to find these days! That's cool though, means I got 6 years worth of videos to watch plus almost all characters who join in later seasons stay alive until the end in GoT!
@@davidostrowski679 You should visit the Žiča Monastery in Kraljevo, 7 Serbian kings were crowned there! Maglič fortress and Krstovgrad too, but they are a bit further away from the city itself, but are worth the effort!
I didn't miss it! I just didn't include it in the video because the shots were too windy. There was quite a few parts around the park which didn't get included I'm afraid
Cacak is bassketball city, the most famouse europian trainer, Zeljko Obradovic iz from Cacak, i watched just 7 min od vlog, so i really hope so you visited some traditional pecenjara in Cacak, because in our city you will find the best pecenje in Serbia. I hope so, you enjoyed in my town, all best brother. Now i am going to finish this video 😄
I wasn't in the mood for eating I'm afraid, I mention a pecenjara in an upcoming video in Požega but eat somewhere else. I'm on a diet at the moment lol. I might have to take a day off haha
I appreciate your effort and how you described my hometown. You missed a few interesting places. As a monument to the victims of the First World War of all faiths, a museum, a beach, and the ruins of the old Byzantine city on top of the Jelica mountain. The Ovčar spa is enjoyed by all " Čačans", and there are two more spas in our territory, the famous Trepča Spa and the undeveloped Slatinska Spa. I wish you happy and successful work
Hey not everywhere I go gets included in the final video due to length reasons mainly. I went to the beach and only had one day. Museums take up a lot of time and aren't practical for videos so I generally don't include them. You have to remember as well that filming takes 5x longer than just a regular day out! Hopefully I can get up Jelica at some point!
I am always glad to see the churches in your videos . Our Protestant churches in the U.S. have forsaken this part of religion . Now many small churches are empty and when this generation dies off the rest will be empty , too . I like when you talk about the important industries are to the wealth of the nation . China certainly does . Each product sold must have a profit . The old saying , "The Harder I Work , The Luckier I Get" Thanks 'The Tao of David'.
Aaaa, you should have gone there a few days later, as Cacak is also a University center, and in a week city population would at least double, both from students and high-schoolers. As a Serbian, not from Cacak, Cacak is one of my favorite cities to visit - it's a representable typical Serbian central Sumadian city that has everything, that has nice rough and tough, but kind people - that you can see by how animals are treated and how they respond to humans, and you can find there all you can find in New York, Paris or London. Well, maybe not oysters imported from Fiji same day, but yeah, but who even thinks about that when you have abundance of wheat/pastries, animals/meat/milk and fruits/rakija. And women love to make sweets. I have been many times to Cacak, some years on a weekly basis, and I obsoletely enjoyed it. I stayed in Hotel Beograd few times just because it felt cool to stay in Cacak for one more day or because I was too hangover. You can get great coffee and students hang out in that huge communist brutalist concrete building in the center,. go 1st floor and they redone it so it looks great by 2021 western standards. Across the street is a great pastry shop with all kinds of perfect sweets and stuff. Dunno much about how it's now, but across Hotel Belgrade, when you go downstairs, used to be some nightlife clubs. As for monuments - Stepa Stepanovic was Commander/Field marshal ("Vojvoda" in Serbian), born near Belgrade and died in Cacak. He is very responsible for chasing off Ottomans and for having Serbia today, as well as prevailing in WW1. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stepa_Stepanovi%C4%87) Tanasko Rajic (Anastasije), was also a commander and Vojvoda, to whom we can thank that Turks are gone from our lands (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanasko_Raji%C4%87). And also, I think those killed in uprisings against Turks in Balkan wars, in WW1 and WW2 are some bunch of happy old bones knowing that Serbian children are playing football above. Anyway, great video, keep on making good stuff!
@@davidostrowski679 Perfect. You must visit Dam on the Gradac River and do some walk around it, they have few old restaurants/bars. And must is monasteries, Lelic and Celije, short drive from the city.
Vladislav Petković Dis was an important poet for Serbia because he marked the start of deviating from traditional romanticism into more experimental and impressionist territory. His poems also often included fantastic and surreal imagery. For this he was panned by contemporary critics which in such a conservative society often expressed very little tolerance for artistic innovation.
i like your style of traveling, going off the beaten tracks. yes, touristy places are usually nice and well polished, but you learn far more when you walk along the back streets. i also like the fact that you stay in one place for more than 1 day (eg. have a 'base' and then do day visits to nearby towns) - i don't think you can absorb anything about people just by running from one tourist destination to another (my sister, brother in law and i went to the national gallery canberra (2.5 hours drive from sydney), to see some exhibition. my brother-in-law literally just walked by the paintings, without actually stopping to see them. i could not believe it. why did he even go there if he wasn't interested ??? so he can say he saw the exhibition ???)
So happy to hear that you liked my home town Krusevac, and that also reminds you on your own home town back in London ❤️ Tell us the name of your home town to see similarities?
Hey Marina I'm from Feltham which is basically next to Heathrow Airport. It's much more modern now but when I was growing up there would be shopping centres in a similar style to the cultural centre and lots of high rise tower blocks from post-war 50s-70s. I'm going to be back there in late October and will be highlighting the 'London you don't see' ie lots of brutalism and graffiti! Instead of boring tourist sights haha If you search for Feltham 1970s you'll get a good idea. There's a pub called the moon on the square - before that area was redeveloped in the late 90s it was very concrete and depressing. The Oasis video 'Stand by Me' was filmed there in 1997 just before they knocked it all down. I haven't been in Feltham for about 10 years and haven't been in London since before the pandemic so Serbia feels more like home to me now
@@davidostrowski679 I googled it, I see some similarities. 😊 Happy to here that Serbia can make you feel like you are home 🏡. Also, can't wait to see your next videos. 😊 Keep up with good work 👍
OMG, you are actually singing Lepa Brena - Cacak, I loled so hard! :D That is your kind of shit, hahahah xD As your pronunciation is that great already and you know the names of our poets (that I even wouldn't recognise) I think you will soon speak the language!
Haha that some is iconic! And thanks re pronunciation it took me a while to transition from Spanish to Serbian syllable stress and my cyrillic reading is much improved!
All I have to say,what you find in Serbia,you can't find anywhere.Serbia is wonderfull country,people awesome and amazing host's.No one leaves Serbia unhappy.Who want to go deeper in historical aspect,for example visiting Vinča and hundreds orthodox monastiers and churches.museums and monuments,then you can understand what Serbia really mean in European and world history.Also,most of tourist must visit Kosovo just to understand some things.They will feel everything serbian overthere,the spirit and culture.Who knows how to feel that patriotic feeling.Serbia is friendly and country for everybody.And everybody is welcome.🇷🇸💪🇷🇸💪🇷🇸
I went there yes! Very nice and I was thinking how it looked very recent. I just didn't film it for some reason. There was a shot when walking around the park where I mentioned 'I've walked all along the river' but for some reason there was no audio on that shot.
You know what amigo it's such a relief! It was about 37c when I got to Serbia but in the last week it's cooled down a bit. Even though I'm from England I'm pleased to see rain especially after the Normex infierno! Jaja
vojvoda consists of two word parts in its word formation : voj , boj = battle . It has the same root as to vie , vying in English though not 100 % the same meaning , voda= vod , vodja = leader , voditi= to lead , to guide ..from guidare in Italian or to guide ...with the truncation of g at the beginning ..vojvoda is yup not the Duke but a battle leader , army general ...but I wouldnt translate the title at all .in a context other than in a footnote
@@davidostrowski679 might be good to give you my email I send off newsleters with lots of useful things . But I am the only one to pour lots of ELT methodology into Serbian teaching , which works miracles..I 've been told ( unlike most other locals tend to have "other " approaches which dont seem to be working ...most Brits I teach tell me that I am a genius 😅 No need for false modesty
You would be surprised with the list of words you can "evolve" from English into Serbian or the other way round using etymology and some little word root tricks
No! Strangely I've only been to Birmingham once as a kid. I've seen more of Serbia than England lol. I haven't been there for almost 3 years, hopefully get back there at some point
@@davidostrowski679 I lived in Birmingham for a month only. Once a Brummie called our office here a few years ago and I asked her the minute she said a few words if she was from Birmingham. She was gobsmacked ...and shocked with her mouth wide open at my question 🤣🤣🤣
Haha classic! It's great being in Serbia again. I was in Mexico for 5 months before this and sometimes both Mexicans and Americans both a) don't understand my accent and b) don't understand my humour which is understandable. Serbia is always a relief I'm terms of those points
I did I just didn't include it in the video for length reasons and the shots were a bit windy like when I went over the bridge. There were quite a few shots which were cut out as I walked around the park.
It's definitely one in my book, the ir monophthong as in 'bird'. I guess it depends on pronunciation and whether the r is pronounced. Bloody British English right
@@davidostrowski679 this is not only about being a language geek...this is much more profound and important. Serbian language has always been under attack by Catholic Church , the Vatican..etc ..to destroy the culture and heritage Tavistock Institute London working round the clock in their hybrid war against us ....I am not being paranoid ...I know what I am talking about...
From what I've seen in a video, it's God's blessing to have motorway detour around this town. Sorry, Chachakians, your town is good for avoiding, only. Looks like Borat would mark as " niceee"
