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I'm Laura and I'm here in Belgrade the
capital of Serbia. Serbia is in the heart
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of the Balkans just a two and a half
hour flight time from the UK where East
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meets West. I'm on a journey of rich
history and varied culture and to find out
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why Serbia is the fastest growing
tourist destination in Europe.
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Hello and welcome to Serbia.
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In this series we'll be exploring this beautiful European country,
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to discover its rich history, unique culture and of course its modern-day offerings.
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Serbia is situated at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, in the heart of the Balkans.
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The country enjoys a warm humid continental climate, with cold winters and warm dry summers.
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Once part of the former Yugoslavia, 20 years on Serbia is a fresh vibrant destination with lovely
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people, fine cuisine and plenty to see
and do.
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The starting point for our journey is the capital city Belgrade. It's the largest city in Serbia and is
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located at the confluence of the Sava
and Danube rivers.
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It has a rich history dating back to before Roman times, so let's start there.
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I'm here with one of the most popular destinations in Serbia, it's the Belgrade fortress
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and there was actually a site here back in the Roman times.
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This is dating back to the 18th century, the one I'm stood on right now,
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and you can see why it works so well with the panoramic views, you've got the confluence of two
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rivers, the Danube and also the Sava coming from the West
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and behind me is very interestingly a nature reserve, an island right in the middle of Belgrade,
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with protected species on, it's absolutely incredible.
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The fortress was declared a ‘monument of culture of exceptional importance’ in1979
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and it stands 125 meters high with fabulous views.
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More than 2 million people visit the fortress every year and best of all it's free.
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Travellers come here from all over the world to either explore its history, enjoy time with friends
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or simply to soak up the view. I grabbed a guide to give me a little bit more information.
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This fortress is the main tourist spot of Belgrade maybe even Serbia.
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It is the oldest part of the city, it is actually where old Belgrade used to be.
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Belgrade got the name white city Belgrade, 'Belgrad' from the, from the fortress actually, because
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fortress was founded by some Celtic tribes, and when they made it they made it white with white stones.
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And that's why Belgrade was known as white city and that's how it got its today's name.
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Something really cool about it there's a church in here isn't there? That people don't know about?
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Yes there is a church called the Rouge Itza it can be translated like Church of Rose, Church of Roses,
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it is on the other side of the fortress and people usually don't see it because they enter the fortress on the,
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from the side over here. It is considered to be the oldest Church of the city, nobody knows how and when
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it was built, but it really can't be seen even from that side, you can see only a cross and you have to go down
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to see it and if you go down and see it, you will really enjoy it because it's really,
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it is a really special, really something to see.
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and how about tourists? You know, what are they sort of most enjoying about coming here?
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They enjoy the stories about the fortress, they enjoyed the large Kalemegdan park,
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which is really nicely decorated, which has a lot of statues and which is actually a oasis.
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When there is weather like this it becomes a refreshing oasis for the tourists and it is open constantly,
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the park is open constantly for the visitors, and in the evening you can see young people sitting here
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enjoying music and drinks, it's really nice.
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This fortress is truly a stunning sight and well worth a visit,
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and as stunning sights go, Belgrade itself has so much more to reveal.
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I'm at Saint Sava church, it's one of the largest Orthodox Church’s in the world
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and it's the largest in the Balkans as well.
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So I'm really excited to find out what all the fuss is about. I'm gonna go inside and see.
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The church of Saint Sava, also known as the temple of Saint Salva, ranks amongst the largest church buildings
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in the world literally built on the ashes of Saint Sava the father of the Serbian orthodox church.
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You'd be hard-pressed to find something as opulent as this building.
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It's not just a grand exterior either, inside is just as impressive.
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I've arranged to meet a guide in the church crypts, which are also surprisingly glamorous.
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Gold ceilings, marble floors, paintings and chandeliers, and everything has a story.
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Okay we're standing in front of this amazing scene here, can you explain it a little bit to us?
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Of course this scene, in regards to holy assembly of Serbian people, those who are recognised by the
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Serbian Orthodox church as being Saints, as being holy in front of God.
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Here leads the image of Saint Sava who is actually the patron of the cathedral itself,
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and who is one of the major characters in Serbian history.
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Born in 1175 as a member of royal family in Serbia and Saint Sava is celebrated for that fact,
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to become the first archbishop of Serbia, and to have that large impact on the life serving community.
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By raising organization of Serbian Orthodox Church and also to raise all those fundamental institutions of civil
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society, such as hospitals, schools and so on that were you will find in Serbia a number of these institutions
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which carry his name.
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I'm so in awe with this place. I feel the need to ask about everything down here.
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Every archway is home to another painting and there's so much gold I don't think I've ever seen so much.
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I'm so happy to be speaking to Father Dragon, it's so nice to meet you, thank you for having us.
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You're welcome
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Now tell us a little bit about the history of the church?
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You're now in the Middle Temple of the Saint Sava, our temple was started to build in 1936 and it was a built
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until 1941, when started the Second World War.
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We start to get with building into 1985.
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We start again at 1991 when start of the wars in the former Yugoslavian Republic from 1991 to 1996.
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We have a small works on the temple and we start again at 2000 and it's still working
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and we hope that about 70/80 % of the works will be finished next year.
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We have a big celebration, 800 years of Independence of Serbian Orthodox Church
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and we hope that we will finish that.
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Amazing and it's just so special when you come here and actually look at it the fact that,
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for example the, the dome ceiling weighs hundreds of tons I understand. It's really, really heavy?
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Yes the couple is weight about 40,000 tons in the mosaic on the couple we finish the mosaic this year,
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that was 40 tons. The mosaic is a donation of the, the Russian federation, Russian Orthodox church and company Gazprom. It is, it was about 4 million Euros.
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And what does, I was gonna ask, what does Saint Sava mean to the Serbian people?
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Because apparently a lot of the schools are named for example.
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Yes Saint Sava for our people means everything. He is the, the start of the the Serbian people.
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When we forget Saint Sava it would be the the ending of all the Serbian people.
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His life, his fight for the Serbian people, for the Serbian Orthodox Church is the way how we Serbian people
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need to live in this life.
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Amazing! Well listen, thank you so much, I know you've got a lot of work to do in the next twelve months,
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but thank you so much for your time father dragon.
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Really what an incredible building, and it's not even finished yet! I'll have to come back soon.
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Having seen some of Belgrade's historical offerings, I decided it was time to see something from more recent
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times and representing a significant part of Serbia's modern day culture.
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Josip Broz Tito, beloved president of Yugoslavia is buried here in Belgrade.
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And his tomb is held with high regard and receives regular visitors from all over the world.
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Tito was a popular figure both in Yugoslavia and in the international community,
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and is still viewed here as a unifying symbol, successfully ruling over the peaceful coexistence
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of the nations of the Yugoslav Federation.
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I've come here to see Tito's memorial at the house of flowers and learn more about this world-famous leader.
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I'm standing in front of the tomb of Tito, he died in 1980, his wife actually is to the side of me just here.
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She died in 2013 and this is the house of flowers, somewhere that he used to come to reflect and
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actually it would've looked very, very, different back then. You wouldn't have had a roof up here as
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there is now, standing here would have actually been a fountain and off to the side would have been the rooms
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that Tito and also his wife would have gone to. And this is a place where people, as you can hear,
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from all different nations come from around the world, to reflect on how Yugoslavia was then
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and how Serbia is now.
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and it certainly is a place to reflect.
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Tito's funeral was one of the most state visited funerals in history,
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with representatives from nearly every country in the world attending.
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The memorial has displays of photographs, artefacts and relay batons from the annual relay of youth race
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that took place from 1945 to Tito's death in 1980.
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Tito was even visited by our own Queen Elizabeth on multiple occasions.
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So short walk from the house of flowers brings us here to the grounds of the Museum of Yugoslavia,
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and actually I want to find out a little bit more about it, so I've come here to meet Sara.
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Thank you so much for having us.
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Thank you, welcome to the museum of Yugoslavia.
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Thank you, and could you talk us through a little bit more to do with the heritage of it?
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Yeah well actually, you just mentioned that you've been to House a Flowers,
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which is actually one of the three venues within the Museum of Yugoslavia.
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So except Museum of Mausoleum of Tito, which is in House a Flowers, we also have the
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so-called old Museum, which is the building that we're standing in front of.
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And that's actually the building that we are working on the permanent exhibition about the whole history
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of Yugoslavia, and we have the main building which is called Museum 25th, it was actually Tito's birthday.
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And actually all of the venues that you're visiting today and this park of sculpture, was actually part of the
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residential space of your super city. So he actually lived here and use all of the these venues while he lived here.
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Only Museum of 25th May, which was actually museum even back then.
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And then when he died all of the objects that he used were turned to Memorial Center yoseob or Seto,
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and it was during the 80s, and a lot of people were coming back then the state delegation,
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but also people from Yugoslavia because you can imagine it was one of the things that you have to do,
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especially within the educational system.
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So nowadays when you're visiting our museum you can actually see all of those amazing gifts that he received
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during his lifetime, and you cannot imagine what kind of items we have here,
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from the piece of Moon that we received from the American President Nixon.
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A piece of the Moon?
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Yeah actually piece of the Moon yeah, to I don't know, wool socks from some part of Yugoslavia.
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So variety of items on one side and on the other side collection of museum revolve revolution,
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which is one really hard core historical collection, chronologically made and so on.
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So what we're trying to do now is to make fun with that collection,
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actually to present of course, the history of whole Yugoslavia.
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So not just socialistic period, but also the kingdom and socialistic period, and the desolation.
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Because that's the most frequent question that people are asking when they're coming,
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especially the foreigners. What happened with that? When and how the whole war happened?
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So we're actually trying to give answer on that, and also to make temporary exhibition that are about variety
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of different phenomenon’s, like graphic design or advertising or movies and so on and so on.
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Well Sara sounds like you've got an absolute amazing job and also sounds like there's so many reasons for
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people to want to come here and it's forever moving so thank you so much Sarah.
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Thank you for coming.
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I've travelled an hour from Belgrade, this is Tapola Royal grounds and apparently it's where the father,
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and the grandfather, of the Crown Prince are actually buried here, at the mausoleum of Karageorgevich.
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I want to find out a little bit more so I'm off to meet a man called Dragon,
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he's actually the manager here of the Royal grounds, and he's gonna tell me a little bit more.
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Hello are you Dragon?
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Hello I'm Dragon
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Laura nice to meet you, Dragon tell me exactly what you do here?
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I'm a principal of the foundation of the King Peter the first,
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so Foundation is a very big on this area, this is the central part of the Serbia.
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This is the hill of Oplenac and this is the nucleus of the modern Serbian state,
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so all the story of Serbian histories in this one place.
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So we have five Museums and of course we have the main, the Church of the St George,
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the mausoleum of the family of Karageorgevich.
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And what is inside here?
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This is a mausoleum and we have buried five Royals from dynastic Karageorgevich,
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which the last ruler of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
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And you've got a mosaic that’s quite large haven’t you?
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Yes, this is the one of the most biggest surface area in the world, made from the Italian Murano glass.
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Our mosaic is now about 40 million little pieces.
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40 Million?
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Yes, made by the hand,
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and it's got about 15,000 different colours and everything that you see
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from the yellow colour is of gold, the real world 70 carats.
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Wow I'm really excited I don't know about you, but let's go inside.
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So who’s this then on the top?
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This is a composition of the St. George but the artist, the famous artist Paja Jovanović took the face from
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the Karageorge. From the father of the family Karageorgevich in putting this composition here.
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And that’s Gold that I can see?
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Yes, yes, this is from Murano glass.
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And there you can see also the archer, the signature of the family of Karageorgevich,
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and in it's one sentence it says "The guard is my first hope".
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Shall we go and find out a little bit more?
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Look at this decoration.
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So opulent.
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And we're talking about on the mosaic with the Murano glass?
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Yes, yes this is all
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Just look at this face. There's just so much to take in isn't there. Of 40 million of these mosaic tiles?
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Yes 40 million little pieces from Italian Murano glass.
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I mean it's so it's so kind of huge uh, so, so much to take in.
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So many different colours in here as well but this tomb is just unbelievable isn't it?
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Quite excited about going down here, it looks a lot darker.
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Yes, that's not, this is a crypt and this is the second part of the Mausoleum.
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And it's make like Orthodox cross and by the each side it's half about 88 tombs,
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and this is the place where we buried 3 Royals of Serbia and Yugoslavia.
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It’s incredibly cold down here isn't it?
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yes.
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It's a real change of atmosphere.
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yes very, very, very different than the upstairs.
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It really is so what should we look at here first of all?
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First of all you can see this is the up, the first floor of the church is the same church, the Protector of the
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St. George and the Crypt is the Protector of the St. Peter and Paul.
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And you can see this is the tomb of the King Alexander
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and the King Alexander the First was the first king of Yugoslavia.
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and next to him we’ve got?
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And next to him is the Queen Mary. She was a Romanian Princess and she was the wife
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of the King Alexander. They have three sons, the King Peter the Second,
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the father of the Crown Prince, Prince Tomislav and Prince Andrew.
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And we've already seen Peter the Second, haven’t we, upstairs and his tomb?
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This is the King Peter the First
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Oh King Peter the First.
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Now we are going to see the tomb of King Peter the Second.
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Excellent.
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Let’s have a little look.
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It's really special actually, the way that the lights so dim, but actually all of these are sparkling.
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Yes, all of this is very similar, many wonderful, oh this, this part is a very similar of this composition like
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in mausoleum of Galla Placidia in the Ravenna.
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So
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this is the, this is the tomb of the king Peter the Second and the Queen Alexandra.
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They was the father and mother of the King, of the Crown Prince Alexander.
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and how often would the Crown Prince come here?
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Very often, very, yes
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He comes down to see his Mother and Father?
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Yes ,yes, yes it's big emotional
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and as it sort of a private event or is it often with people around?
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With people you know.
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Yeah?
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He's always with his people.
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Because I was gonna say, I mean, this is, this means such a lot to Serbian people as well doesn’t it?
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Incredibly respectful.
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Yes of course, yes.
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On the grounds of the Mausoleum is a winery, so it'd be a shame not to sample some royal wine whilst I'm here.
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I enjoy Dragons company so much that we've decided to come to the Royal Winery,
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how many Hector's around here?
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Today we have the 12 hectares, but in the future we have 40 Hector's here,
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and we hope you know to recognise that, all the old King Winery.
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So it is a big, big place and what's the oldest bottle of wine that’s here?
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This is the King wine from 1921.
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Can I try some of the wine?
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But not sold
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Okay, so I can't try this one but let's go enjoy the rest of them?
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Okay.
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I like it let's go
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Inside there are some historical winemaking artefacts, but I'm ready for the wine itself.
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So this, these are all the wines in front of us?
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Yes this is the our two-day production.
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Our oldest wine in our store is from the vintage 1921, and this is the vintage from 2016, and this is a
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Pinot Blanc we can now taste?
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Yep?
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Mmmm.
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It's really refreshing but it's quite, strangely enough for white wine it's quite warming on the palate,
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which is actually really nice.
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Yes, this is the Chardonnay,
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Okay.
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You can see this is a Chardonnay from 2016
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Oh that is absolutely lovely!
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You like it?
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Yeah, that actually tastes kind of it's great infusion isn't it? Of the…
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It’s like exciting, this is the cava wine and this is very exciting wine and we are very proud yes.
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Yeah I'm not surprised by the taste of it, so what’s this one we’re moving onto?
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This is the Sauvignon Blanc, this is our Admiral Ship, that's what I like to call, you know of our winery.
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Again that’s got a slightly, it's got quite a sweet, dry taste to go in with. But then it comes with sort of
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a second note of kind of bitter, it’s slightly bitter as well isn’t it?
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And you'll see how it's too long you know, stay in the, in the, in the throat you know.
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Yeah that is really nice.
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It’s a dry wine you know
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You know what I really fancy trying this red as well.
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That's a really good balance and this is Cabernet Sauvignon we call it Sauveren which means…
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One for you
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It’s not gentlemen but you are close I'm sorry
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Živeli
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Oh that’s lovely you know what? I'm just thinking we've got one, two, three, this will be fourth one,
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that is actually one of the smoothest wines I’ve tasted.
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In actual fact I don't know if it's because I've had three others, because you can’t taste the alcohol at all.
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It's like it's that smooth that it's just…
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Very, very elegant this is a very elegant wine.
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Well thank you so much Dragon, for showing me around here. It's just been an incredible experience
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and quite frankly, I think what we should do is get some dishes in and finish off the wine.
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Okay
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So erm, Živeli to that!
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Živeli
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Živeli
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I'm in Belgrade and having explored some of its history,
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I'm now enjoying the modern outdoor activities this city has to offer.
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It's hard to believe that this leafy, beautiful, picturesque place is right in the middle of Belgrade.
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This is Ada, and there's so much to do here. There's a man-made lake where you can go on jet skis,
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you can even hire Pedalo’s, and there's lots of things to do including a safari as well.
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I'm on my bike right now, that I've just hired here, you can also go on rollerblades. I think I might be trying
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those a little bit later on and this is an oasis in the middle of Belgrade, it's amazing!
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Situated on the Sava river, Ada is Belgrade's biggest sports and recreational complex.
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This artificial lake is the most popular destination for Belgraders during the city's hot summers.
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Aside from cycling you can also play golf, football, tennis, go paintballing, water skiing and more.
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There are seven kilometres of beaches to just relax in the sun, and as you can see, it's bustling with people.
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I'm taking a bit of a breather now. I’ve got to be honest, I haven't done a spin class in a long time and
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believe me, it's actually harder than it looks.
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That's my excuse anyway.
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Away from the edge of the lake there are numerous tracks to follow for walking, jogging, cycling
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and roller-skating.
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It's a beautiful day to go for a ride and I've soon got the hang of it
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I haven't been riding a bike since I was about four years old I don't think, and I'm pretty wobbly.
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But because it's so opulent, so serene around here, and I think the atmosphere is really cosmopolitan
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everyone's so friendly, that it makes it so much easier.
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It's a great thing to do but there's so many more activities to try, so I think I'm gonna try my next one,
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actually rollerblading’s my thing I reckon.
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I'm ready
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Oh
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Okay so maybe I'm not quite as good as I thought, I'm still gonna keep on practicing.
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Look at me go (screams).
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I’m fine.
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Okay.
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Let's take it slow.
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You can do this, you can do this Laura
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I really hope no one comes near me
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Hi
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So this girl’s just showing off clearly.
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I’m much better on this.
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I’m top of the world.
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This is tough, really tough, but you know what? I think I’m getting better now
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Might be to do with the fact I can see some food and drink in sight.
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My salvation.
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You know what?
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I’m going to pull over here, I think I’ve worked really hard for today so you know I think I might take a
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minute, take a breather and get myself in here for some food and drink.
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I think I’ve earned it.
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Along the lake edge are a variety of restaurants and bars to escape the sun,
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enjoy delicious food or to simply relax.
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I'm having lunch at the Sunset 1999, a lakeside restaurant that serves a variety of sweet and
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savoury specialities, both local and from abroad.
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It has live music events regularly and whilst an oasis in the summer, during colder months,
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the restaurant becomes a warm winter house.
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It has a relaxing atmosphere with families; couples and business meetings taking place all around.
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The lake itself is so serene with people enjoying the water in any way they can.
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With my lunch all finished I'm eager to get into the water myself, and I think I know exactly where to go.
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On the other side of the lake is a cable waterskiing complex called Aqua Ski,
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offering wakeboarding, wake skating and slalom waterskiing.
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So I've had a massive lunch in Belgrade and I decided, you know, what could be possibly a better idea
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than coming to Aqua Ski in Belgrade? So Marko, say hi Marko.
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Hi I’m Marko.
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And I just want to ask you, I’ve seen you skating around here you got any tips for me as a beginner?
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Well you know the first thing to know, if you wanna do wave board, you have to crouch down,
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be on your back foot, put your arms to your hips, and just when the spring pulls you have to pull.
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Also you have to give it like a slingshot, will act like a slingshot to their strength so that's, that's all.
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And that is all?
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I mean and when you go to the corners you, you have to go far right and don't be afraid of, for falling,
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is just water it's not too cold so, it's cool
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But I was gonna say I mean I've just seen you do all these jumps you can see behind me.
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Oh it comes it comes with mileage you know, you have to practice and yeah more you practice,
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you're getting better like everything in life.
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Have you been doing it long?
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I know I've been here for two years
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Two years and you do it constantly right?
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Oh yeah every season, every day, because I'm a software developer so I do remote job from here,
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so I can Ski all day.
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So what did you start off when you first, very first did it?
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Think back to like how I'm gonna feel, how were you? Were you rubbish?
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Oh yeah well I was like falling for 50 times for ya really, really,
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for like five hours of constant falling and falling. And misery but at last I got off and Ski so
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Amazing so basically it's probably really bad idea for me to do, I've just had lunch,
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I'm gonna fall like I don't know how many times.
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No, no, no, it's cool dude, whatever you want I mean it doesn't matter, the main thing is you have to be
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persistent. You have to just try and try so you'll get there.
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I will give it a go anyway thank you so much for your time I'll let you get on.
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Do you have a wetsuit for me?
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For you? I don’t think you’ll need it.
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Okay.
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It's not that cold.
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Okay cool, everyone else has got one
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Breathe in
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Wish me luck, I am very scared I’ll be honest.
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It's such an adrenaline rush and I think I'm doing really well,
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but then it all goes horribly wrong.
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That was my first go in Belgrade at wakeboarding, cable skiing, whatever you wanna call it.
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Actually think I did pretty well.
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Only thing they don't tell you is, you pay for half an hour and I got caught, I did pretty well
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and literally got caught about half-mile down there. So I’ve been swimming back for the last 20 minutes,
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I feel knackered. But believe me even for 30 seconds on the board it was amazing.
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I think I’m gonna carry on swimming back to shore then, here we go.
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Oh I can stand.
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Heading away from the lake, I'm about to visit another sporting venue.
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This time the home to the Red Star football team.
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So I'm here at the Red Star stadium with the lovely Tatiana from PR what an amazing job?
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Yeah very interesting, very dynamic job, we're here we have a lot of victories here actually, in this stadium,
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so it is really exciting to be part of it.
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And tell us the capacity of the amount of people that can actually be in here ?
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It's a fifty one thousand then a little bit more,
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Amazing!
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Yeah, it is and for the big European games it's
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always full, and the atmosphere is just the thing that makes it so amazing.
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and you've got an incredible museum at the top here as well, and it's a really popular one isn't it?
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What kind of things can fans find in that?
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Yeah the museum is very, very popular. Most people in Belgrade come to, to see it, also the tourists
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and everyone because we have a really big trophies there. Because Reds are won the world,
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become world champion and European champion in 1991 and there's the meeting that you can see when,
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when you enter it and that's why that room is so full of trophies .
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Wow! And you know if you've got people coming here that are sort of thinking of coming to Serbia, and
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possibly considering coming to the stadium, what would you say to them? Why should they come here?
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They should come here to feel the extraordinary atmosphere. To meet the
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people who really love football and who live for it and to meet the best players that we have.
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Amazing! Listen Tatiana thank you so, so much for sharing your passion with us.
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You’re welcome I hope you enjoyed the Red Star.
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The stadium is one of the most feared in the world and by chance I bump into some
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British travellers visiting this infamous venue.
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I'm not the best at football I’ll be honest, but I've just met some fellow Brits out here,
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and they've kind of been helping me out actually,
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so welcome to Simon Andrew and Tom I’ve got that right haven’t I lads?
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yes, yes, yes
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Excellent,
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now boys tell us your story of why you're here because you've got a really cool thing that you've been doing?
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It's all started with us following Chelsea I mean we, we started doing like European away events like 10 - 15
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years ago. We've been to some interesting places like Slovakia for example, and we were like well we're
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going all these places to watch football we might as well go to the ones that Chelsea’s
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probably not gonna play in.
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Although saying that, we’re here at Red Star Belgrade and they're in the European League this year ,
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we're gonna be in it next year so maybe we’ll be back.
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Amazing and what would you say about Serbia in particular that really draws you here
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and what differentiates it from other places?
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It's nice weather, like most of the most the time and Andrew’s brother, his colleague, is from here so it
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was nice to come out here and see him as well. So we just come out here just experience the culture like
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you know go to the pubs and the bars and stuff and yeah but we're all like really keen football fans so we
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wanted to come here and go to Partisan’s Football Stadium as well or just have a look around really.
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So the whole place is buzzing and the nightlife in Belgrade is fantastic.
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It’s brilliant it's like we haven't had any trouble out here.
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As you know the people are really friendly the beers cheap,
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yeah,
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that's always a winner.
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Good point. We will not delay you anymore thank you so much for chatting with us
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and have an amazing rest of your stay.
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Thank you
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It's certainly been a long day and I'm ready to check into my accommodation for the night
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the famous Hotel Moscow.
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Built in 1906, the Moscow is a classic example of Russian art deco and this is where I’m staying tonight.
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Built in the style of Russian secession, the hotel is one of the most important architectural gems of Belgrade.
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Hello my name is Leonarda great pleasure meeting you welcome to Hotel Moscow.
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Thank you, so tell me a little bit about this place?
432
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:20,560
So this place dates back to 1908 when it was open for the first time by the King Peter the First,
433
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:26,080
and since then we welcomed a lot of famous guests, and this year pretty much we are
434
00:35:26,080 --> 00:35:28,800
celebrating our 110th birthday.
435
00:35:28,800 --> 00:35:30,240
Wow congratulations
436
00:35:30,240 --> 00:35:31,120
Thank you
437
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:34,000
And tell me a little bit about the rooms here
438
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:40,500
So we have 123 rooms in total and there is a, out of which eight are apartments,
439
00:35:40,500 --> 00:35:43,300
we have of course our presidential suites,
440
00:35:43,300 --> 00:35:49,740
then we have a suite where the Olympic Committee of Serbia first was established.
441
00:35:49,740 --> 00:35:57,440
Besides that we have 42 duplexes, that is something that we are famous for, so nobody else in the region,
442
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:00,340
no other hotel has duplex apartments.
443
00:36:00,340 --> 00:36:05,180
That means that they’re like basically two floor apartments and our guests love it.
444
00:36:05,180 --> 00:36:08,200
Amazing and I've heard about this hotel is really special because it's actually
445
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,540
survived like two wars is that correct?
446
00:36:10,540 --> 00:36:14,320
That is correct first the World War and the Second World War.
447
00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:19,920
The only time that actually hotel wasn't working through this 110 years
448
00:36:19,920 --> 00:36:26,640
was the time when this building was turned into Germans Gestapo base.
449
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:32,400
But even then because Germans are very good at business right, even then they kept the restaurant
450
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:40,560
and our other café opened because it was gathering Belgrade’s and even the regional elite.
451
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:44,800
And you know what? I'm staying here tonight, I’m really lucky, I'm so pleased you've had me here.
452
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,620
Can I actually see my room?
453
00:36:46,620 --> 00:36:48,420
Absolutely, if you're ready let's roll
454
00:36:48,420 --> 00:36:49,620
Let's go
455
00:36:56,500 --> 00:36:57,840
So this is my room?
456
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,500
Yes it is, that's the one
457
00:36:59,500 --> 00:37:00,580
Excellent
458
00:37:02,480 --> 00:37:03,840
Look at that,
459
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:04,460
Do you like this?
460
00:37:04,460 --> 00:37:05,820
Gosh it’s huge, I love it.
461
00:37:06,620 --> 00:37:09,340
Wow I love all the decoration as well
462
00:37:09,340 --> 00:37:11,100
Beautiful thank you so much.
463
00:37:11,100 --> 00:37:12,940
It is so nice.
464
00:37:12,940 --> 00:37:15,540
This is gonna be a standard double room.
465
00:37:15,540 --> 00:37:18,640
Okay well you know what? I can not wait to relax in here.
466
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:23,600
Perfect then I'm gonna leave you to enjoy and we're gonna have your suitcases sent up in a few moments,
467
00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:25,040
That sounds absolutely brilliant.
468
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,000
Thank you very much it was a great pleasure hosting you.
469
00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:28,100
It’s a pleasure being here.
470
00:37:28,100 --> 00:37:29,160
Enjoy your time
471
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:45,200
So tonight we've decided to come to dinner at place that fuses Serbian with Italian food,
472
00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,920
and by the looks of things it looks pretty quirky, so let's go in.
473
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,880
Just from looking at the outside you know that this is a restaurant with a difference,
474
00:37:56,880 --> 00:37:59,040
and the interior doesn't disappoint.
475
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:04,440
Oh thank you very much that looks lovely
476
00:38:04,720 --> 00:38:10,040
There are random film decorations littered everywhere, and artistic pieces that are just bizarre.
477
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:12,640
And the food is pretty good too.
478
00:38:16,240 --> 00:38:20,300
So I’m here with Sasha from the restaurant
Lorenzo and Kakalamba,
479
00:38:20,300 --> 00:38:21,720
thank you so much for having us.
480
00:38:21,940 --> 00:38:25,200
It's my pleasure, anyway good evening and welcome to our place, welcome to Serbia.
481
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:26,440
Thank you
482
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,760
And this place has been open like since 2010,
483
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:35,840
for last four years we are in top 12 restaurants here in Belgrade.
484
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:36,580
Wow
485
00:38:36,580 --> 00:38:43,660
Yeah and more or less like that, that's it. I mean the name of Lorenzo in Kakalamba,
486
00:38:43,660 --> 00:38:49,260
Lorenzo is because of Lorenzo Medici, he was Duke of Florence I think in 15th century,
487
00:38:49,260 --> 00:38:52,620
sort of I'm not really sure, I think it is 15,
488
00:38:52,620 --> 00:38:57,380
and the Kakalamba is the nickname of the owners family here in Serbia.
489
00:38:57,380 --> 00:39:00,400
The nickname basically it means dirty land.
490
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:02,420
That is brilliant
491
00:39:02,420 --> 00:39:03,060
Thank you
492
00:39:03,060 --> 00:39:06,000
So basically it's a very unique name no one else is going to have?
493
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:12,220
It is actually, even Serbian’s when they're coming here they cannot pronounce that the, the Kakalamba
494
00:39:12,220 --> 00:39:13,120
So I did well?
495
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:14,340
Excellent job yeah.
496
00:39:14,340 --> 00:39:19,300
I like this, so tell me the story about all of these quirky things we can see behind us.
497
00:39:19,300 --> 00:39:23,280
I don't know if you can see at the moment but the table’s got fresh apples in there, there’s a violin
498
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,080
and there's all these lamps around here there's a pig outside.
499
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:30,800
Well to be honest with you the owner, he was in the movies industry you know.
500
00:39:31,420 --> 00:39:35,120
When he finished all that story part of his life let's say,
501
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:42,340
he just was thinking of what he can do with all that stuff. From the, you know, the movies.
502
00:39:42,340 --> 00:39:47,560
He decide to open the restaurant you know, and he put all these things together.
503
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,760
You get what you see and I think he did nice job you know.
504
00:39:53,280 --> 00:40:00,880
Somebody said shoot the Kitsch, how you can say that it sells the things you know. I mean as you see tonight,
505
00:40:00,880 --> 00:40:07,280
okay Saturday night, but actually even Tuesday, Thursday, whatever, any day we are full by we're full
506
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:08,120
Wow
507
00:40:08,120 --> 00:40:14,880
We are full, yeah? We have tourists, a lot of tourists here; we have local people that are coming and
508
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,620
so far so good. Touch wood.
509
00:40:16,620 --> 00:40:20,080
and it, it sort of merges the Italian and the Serbian together and,
510
00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,920
and I've just had a beautiful meal it's stunning.
511
00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:32,080
Okay that the connection between Florence and Pirot, actually Italy and Serbia, the owner's wife she studied
512
00:40:32,080 --> 00:40:42,320
in Florence, in Florenza, and that how they got the idea to mix Serbian cuisine and Italian.
513
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:48,740
Actually Pirot and Florence because to be honest, with you Pirot is done south, south part of Serbia,
514
00:40:48,740 --> 00:40:49,340
Yeah
515
00:40:49,340 --> 00:40:58,120
and over there it's very famous dishes. Probably some of them you've had tonight and I hope that you enjoy it.
516
00:40:58,120 --> 00:40:59,660
Thank you so much Sasha.
517
00:40:59,660 --> 00:41:01,360
My pleasure thank you, thank you.
518
00:41:06,220 --> 00:41:11,520
As the evening moves on its time to experience some local drink and here it’s Rakia.
519
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:15,420
Hello
520
00:41:15,420 --> 00:41:16,180
Hi I’m Laura
521
00:41:16,180 --> 00:41:17,560
Good evening my name is George.
522
00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:18,740
Nice to meet you
523
00:41:18,740 --> 00:41:23,720
Welcome to our Rakia bar, so I would like to start a story before serving Rakia,
524
00:41:23,720 --> 00:41:26,540
with the history of the name Rakia.
525
00:41:26,540 --> 00:41:32,020
So there are two versions, first version says that Rakia got it’s name from Arabic word ‘al rock’,
526
00:41:32,020 --> 00:41:36,880
which means drop of sweat, and the reason for that is that Arabian’s were the first one did use process
527
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:41,320
of distillation, but for the production of perfumes, not for the production of alcohol.
528
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:45,480
And the second version is that it's from Indonesian words Haraq,
529
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:50,140
which was first distilled alcoholic drinks out of, drink out of palm leaves.
530
00:41:50,140 --> 00:41:56,400
So with time and knowledge about production of hard spirits, with process of distillation, move towards west
531
00:41:56,400 --> 00:42:03,640
and until the middle of the 16th and early 17th century we had almost every country in Europe distilling
532
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:10,060
some national hard spirit. So in Serbia and all Balkans was usually, usually Rakia.
533
00:42:10,060 --> 00:42:11,440
Ok shall we get started?
534
00:42:11,440 --> 00:42:12,380
Yes of course.
535
00:42:12,380 --> 00:42:13,140
Excellent.
536
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,660
I brace myself for my first taste of this mysterious drink.
537
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:22,440
Here it is.
538
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:25,920
Okay so we're starting with the grape Rakia, here we go,
539
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:33,320
so Rakia made of grapes is drink slowly like every Rakia so sipping not drinking bottoms up.
540
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,620
Excellent so I'll just have a little sip of this to start off with.
541
00:42:36,620 --> 00:42:38,580
Yeah of course we say Živeli
542
00:42:39,420 --> 00:42:40,540
so it's Cheers.
543
00:42:40,540 --> 00:42:41,040
Živeli
544
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:41,540
Živeli
545
00:42:41,540 --> 00:42:43,140
And you must look people in the eyes.
546
00:42:43,140 --> 00:42:44,180
yeah of course, of course
547
00:42:44,460 --> 00:42:45,340
Živeli
548
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:46,820
there we go
549
00:42:46,820 --> 00:42:47,540
Enjoy
550
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:56,040
It's quite strong, it’s got quite a kick to it, but the interesting thing is you can actually taste
551
00:42:57,060 --> 00:42:59,700
really strongly the grapes coming through that.
552
00:42:59,700 --> 00:43:00,900
I’m going to sip some more I like it
553
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:05,600
How did you like the first one?
554
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:09,040
I liked it I'm gonna, well I’m gonna, what I'm kind of gonna rate that though.
555
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:14,360
That was a pretty hard hit, I like the food with it that made it better but I'm gonna go with,
556
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:17,440
I'm really harsh, two out of ten at the moment.
557
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:17,940
Okay.
558
00:43:17,940 --> 00:43:19,600
But it can only get better and I’ve still got four more.
559
00:43:19,600 --> 00:43:23,100
Of course that's an opener so because of that second Rakia that you'll try,
560
00:43:23,100 --> 00:43:25,960
is very popular Rakia made out of Quince.
561
00:43:30,180 --> 00:43:36,540
Yeah like that. I'm definitely preferring that I'll be honest with you then the first one that I tried.
562
00:43:36,540 --> 00:43:43,540
That's a lot nice already I mean, I'm thinking on my Laura scale that I might actually push it up to
563
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:48,480
maybe a four or something in the middle. But I think I need to try a little bit more so
564
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:56,640
As the evening continues the alcohol is starting to get to me but I've got more to come.
565
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:02,420
So what we got here?
566
00:44:02,420 --> 00:44:07,840
We've got the most traditional Serbian Rakia, and the national brand of Serbia and that is plum Rakia.
567
00:44:09,060 --> 00:44:12,200
This is really nice, it kind of warmed me up. I'm gonna go with,
568
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:16,040
I'm gonna go with a six actually.
569
00:44:16,420 --> 00:44:20,660
So I managed to lose some friends but I've gained some more ones as well so happy days
570
00:44:20,660 --> 00:44:22,620
and I'm on to Rakia number four is it?
571
00:44:22,620 --> 00:44:24,300
Yeah that's honey Rakia
572
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:28,440
I think
573
00:44:29,740 --> 00:44:34,140
that might have to go up once again I do slightly prefer that to the plum so
574
00:44:34,900 --> 00:44:35,900
I think I'm gonna go with
575
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:37,760
a seven for this one.
576
00:44:39,740 --> 00:44:41,860
Just one more round to go.
577
00:44:41,860 --> 00:44:46,520
So this is my fifth and final Rakia, so I hope it's gonna be good.
578
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:51,120
The past ones have got two, a four, six and a seven. So what this one you’ve got me?
579
00:44:51,120 --> 00:44:53,960
Okay let's go for the, at least nine.
580
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:54,520
Yeah?
581
00:44:54,520 --> 00:45:00,320
Okay so this is, this is raspberry Rakia. This still has a plum base so I hope you'll like it.
582
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:05,200
It's a represent of the sweet Rakia is something that that has become modern recently,
583
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:10,900
so this is this is the last thing that you'll try here so I would like to thank you.
584
00:45:10,900 --> 00:45:11,540
Thank you
585
00:45:11,540 --> 00:45:16,220
For being a nice judge for, for making good descriptions.
586
00:45:16,220 --> 00:45:18,560
I haven’t been that nice yet have I?
587
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:25,020
No but still, yeah I'm trying to buy you right now to give us the best possible grade.
588
00:45:25,020 --> 00:45:29,200
I like that because of course the highest grade I’ve given before is a seven,
589
00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:35,960
but this one it's so lovely and sweet, and it almost tastes like a liqueur.
590
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,180
That sort of mix berries but I guess that's because it's been fermented for so long.
591
00:45:39,180 --> 00:45:40,120
Yeah of course.
592
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,700
and it's got a really rich flavour,
593
00:45:42,700 --> 00:45:48,620
I'm actually gonna give this one a nine out of ten this is your highest score so far.
594
00:45:48,620 --> 00:45:49,860
That was good
595
00:45:49,860 --> 00:45:55,160
Well listen thank you so much, hopefully we'll come back again and but we've had a great time here.
596
00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,860
Of course thank you very much and I hope you'll come again.
597
00:45:57,860 --> 00:45:59,100
Oh definitely will.
598
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:08,620
Next time on Serbia Old and New.
599
00:46:08,820 --> 00:46:14,580
I continue exploring the city of Belgrade, where I get to meet Alexander, the Crown Prince of Serbia.
600
00:46:14,580 --> 00:46:18,800
I also explore fashion and go for a kayak tour along War Island.
601
00:46:18,800 --> 00:46:19,780
See you next time you.
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