A COUNTRY YOU HAVE TO VISIT // Belgrade, Serbia VLOG 

How big was it tho

It is such an amazing place! 100% recommend visiting! Thank you for your lovely comment :)

I couldn't agree more with you! I loved exploring it and I can't wait until I'm back there !

maybe because we are Orthodox

Kad bi zapad razumeo SRBIJU gdje bi nam bijo kraj

Haha! Thank you, what an amazing country you have :)

Serbia is amazing ! Can't wait to explore more of it :)

vazno da ti napises cirilicom, oni ne znaju da citaju to

Very exciting! Serbia is a beautiful country, you will enjoy it a lot!

Thank you so much, Serbian people are always so welcoming! I am so happy you enjoyed the video, I genuinely fell in love with your country and I can't wait to come back and explore more - not just the capital and Niš :) !

@@abbeyfrancis I hope you will visit my city as well (Novi Sad). I would like to watch your amazing video about Novi Sad :D

Thank you so much! I really love your country :)

Thank you !! We can't wait to visit again :)

Thank you for clarifying the history, this is obviously a very sensitive piece of history and it is important to know the facts.

Thank you so much for your lovely comment :) - your country is awesome

It's an amazing country! Everything that made it to the video, I can highly recommend checking out :) Wondering around the city and discovering the city :)

From a Serb when you coming do not plan your trip come and don't expect anything and everything can happened. Secret of Serbia are Serbs.

Thank you ! I LOVE your country :)

I can’t wait to come back and explore more ❤️ Thank you for your hospitality

@Abbey Francis You are more than welcome.♥️ I'm glad that you liked it.♥️ I followed your Instagram profile, and it is amazing.♥️

Exactly! The city that never sleeps :)

Hahaha it was so big tho :) Tom was a legend, many amazing conversations were had with him! Thank you for watch the vid xx

Bring on south america :))

So you should be x

Thank you for explaining this, what I didn't get on video is that we met two young Serbian girls after seeing the t-shirts and they explained the ties between the two nations. I think seeing Putin on a t-shirt currently can be a bit sensitive with the current invasion of Ukraine, that's why I kept these clips in :)

@@abbeyfrancis sensitive to whom? Why would we care about snowflake's sensitivities in our own country?

@@abbeyfrancis hey, Abbey, nice vlog from Belgrade. It’s kind of complex to explain. We went through what Ukraine is going through, many times, we feel sorry for the people, but we have enough experience to recognize political manipulations. After all, we were in Yugoslavia, a big country, where we all speak the same language. In this case, we recognize the manipulations of the West. We are not so sensitive and traumatized by this event, because our people in Kosovo and Metohija are still suffering. We never had time to cry because of other people's battles, to be in a bubble, because ours are not finished yet. And, guess what, nobody cares about that. ♥️

Thank you! :)

You're going to love this country! Every aspect of it is amazing! - safe travels :)

Thank you so much for watching and following along on our travels :)

One ozzy and two brits! It was an amazing trip, we can't wait to come back :)!

I think it will cool down by September :) - Enjoy Serbia, it's amazing !

Thank you! We loved it there !

Thank you so much for your kind and wonderful comment!! I hear what you're saying and have learnt a lot from this video about AVOIDING politics, especially when I have no lived experiences or understandings of Serbian politics. In the end, I discovered a wonderful country, culture and peoples. I hope to be back. My dream is to do a road trip in Serbia - it's just such a wonderful country and I want to discover more of it. The place left a big impression on me and I'm sure many others.

Very interesting to see and learn about the Serbian/Russian relationship !

@@abbeyfrancis Here is to learn one more interesting fact: the Temple of Saint Sava you visited has unique mosaic, unique not just by immense dimenssions (15.000 square meters), but also by technology applied in producing pieces, artistic solutions and number of people involved in its creation. You see, that is not "stone pieces", but pieces of cobalt glass that was specially mixed and baked for every color hue on different temperature (just producing mosaic pieces took 3 years, and there is about 50 million of them, and instaling took 1 year more). The whole new technology had to be invented for this, and the nice gold colour was actually made by mixing real gold powder or golden leaves into cobalt glass pieces before baking... Every piece can withstand 20 kg pressure per cm2, which sounds a lot, but than again, mosaic is immense, so the planing of building mosaic had to incorporate also speacial ingeneering calculations of wieght and pressure structure, so it doesn't crush under its own wight (or fall on your head by accident...). For that purpose, outlining of composition had to be done by 3D scanning and put through various stress simulations before it was made possible to build it for real, that has never been done for this kind of artistic construction... And now most interesting. Artistic idea was made by Russian Academy of Art together with Serbian Academy of Art and Science and special expert team from Serbian Orhodox Church. In the end, about 3.500 artist and experts were involved in the project, but the persone who lead all that army of artist was Russian academic Nikolay Muhin. The price of that mosaic, just in material value, is colossal (although, nothing is so colossal for priceless result), and it is in whole financed by Russian Government (or better say, by Russian citizens, becasue that was budget money), and under personal iniciative and engagement of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. So, for all that positive experience inside Temple of Saint Sava, and I saw you went out with blown minds, you have to thank to Russian artists, Russians citizens and mister Putin, that made it possible... So, now you compare yourself those bombed buildings in the center of Belgrade and that mosaic, and get your own conclussion :)

You've totally been convinced! I can't recommend it enough :)

@@abbeyfrancis did you find it safe?

@@tajlyons9452 It's very safe there! Locals are so friendly :)

Thank you :)

Here is the link to the hostel we stayed in :) www.hostelworld.com/st/hostels/p/314437/up-hostel/?source=ppc_gooads_nonbrand_dsk_dsa_pn_en_eucatchall&network=g&campaign_id=20981130437&adgroup_id=161856943121&criteria_id=dsa-443313842330&creative_id=689218685481&location_physical_id=9071834&location_interest_id=9196009&adposition&uniqueclickID=8800634387021171141&sub_keyword&sub_ad&sub_publisher=ADW&gclsrc=aw.ds&gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwhIS0BhBqEiwADAUhcwBzk10WGqED_qmiucfdAOsKQiayM743nviCE3pxhuftk9gh6AURChoCtdYQAvD_BwE

Nice! I would love to live there one day too :) - it's a beautiful city!

:) THank you :)

Your home city is amazing! Yes haha we did figure that out after a couple of days hahah

For night life, you wanna head along the river where they have clubs on boats, unfortunently I was too sick (had the flu) to go and check them out :( and as for accomodation we stayed at UP hostel, I would recommend it for the comfort, but maybe not so much for a young backpacker vibe. Hope this helps!

Hi oops I forgot to link it! Here is the tour, I highly recommend this one :) belgradefreetour.com/

Thank you so much!! That is so lovely that your friend is from Australia too! Thank you for watching my video - I loved your beautiful country!

Tom is actually not the local guide, he is just another tourist I met in our hostel. You can find the walking tour that we went on linked in the description :)

Yes Serbians speak pretty good English!

This was 100% the birth! Can you believe putin got us there x

Yesss Serbia

:)

Yes, amazing to have such a visual reminder of the atrocity!

I have no idea honestly, it was my friend who bought the book, I think she paid 400 (good to know that it's not too expensive)!

@@abbeyfrancis I thought that your friend gives 200 and 500 dinars to the seller, maybe even more. But it's okay if it's 400 din. You and your friends just look naive, but you are actually smart girls 😀

YAY ! The best country :))

It’s a ruin, please see the English definitions here: wikidiff.com/ruin/monument

@@abbeyfrancis im sorry but for us it s a monunent!to remember the bombings!thats the reason its still standa there!

Mine?

Go elsewhere then bloody idiot

@@abbeyfrancis yeah , yours.....plz go away as soon as you can, and never return, plz

No probs x

You're so rude!! We were not in Belegrade for two days and we are not lesbians! Keep your awful comments to yourself, thank you!

@@abbeyfrancis @ Nevermind the creep - he might not even be Serbian! Some of our "friendly ex-Yugoslav neighbors" pretend to be Serbian and are insulting our tourists with nasty comments to make Serbia look bad. Our 'Secretary of State' ms.Brnabic is LGBT gay woman and that tells you there is no discrimination of any kind allowed in our country. I'm glad you had a pleasant stay in Serbia ang I hope you come again!

@@abbeyfrancis You did't have to explain a thing to this shithead. I don't think there is a Serbian that is stupid that much. I will use the fact that your not lesbians to ask you about Serbian guys. What you think about them?

Such an incredible country!