Journey Across Serbia | Part 1

Hello, Balkans4. We're in Serbia, Sopotica. Beautiful day, beautiful place. We want to ride some trains. Heading towards the yard. The goal for today would be to get to Belgrade. Afterwards, get to the Bulgarian border. We only know the preliminary details. I'm going to fill you in on them along the way, but we're just gonna head to the yard and see. There's one train waiting its turn on the right of me. It doesn't seem very sneakily rideable. We will see. We were here yesterday and there was a bit better train came here in the evening, so we didn't really want to take it. It's gone now. This one came. Hopefully, trains will go more frequently here than the previous Balkan experience. We're gonna go to the other side of the yard now and find a waiting spot. Chill. That's a nice locomotive. Probably something like this is gonna pull us. Definitely a lot of options if they leave today. This one, poison double-checked, is going to Hungary actually, so this one's out. Maybe that one on the left. They're not sneakily rideable. We can go in between, but we're gonna be risking getting seen. As you can see, not a lot of space to hide. We would just be sitting obviously here. It's not looking the best. These are actually rideable. Pretty cool, but we're not sure which direction they're going. Like I said, the main positive thing is that there are actually trains. There's opportunities. It's welded. The cabin seems welded as well. Now we're just struggling to even find a place to stay. So these abandoned buildings on the left we're passing, they're chill, but they already have people living in them and we don't want to mess with them. So follow the tracks all the way to the other side. It's down the other side. That's the direction we need anyway. All right, so there are no good spots on the yard at all. You see those people walking there? They kind of gave us a hard time. They're very talkative, but we don't really vibe with them that well, so there aren't any good spots to wait. We walked all the way around. We're just gonna go into the shade on this side, see if a train comes, then go back to the back. We're just gonna wait here. We're now waiting in the yard for the first time. All the nice bushy spots and abandoned houses are taken up by people. Talked to them a bit. Some were very chill. A couple gave us a bit of trouble, but talked it out. We're thinking if we see a train coming, we're just gonna go behind the yard and hop into the train right inside. Basically, plus we got a lot of shade. It's fun. All right, so now it's about six. We came to the yard at one. Nothing. We want to relax and not think about anything, not focus on anything. Get to a nearby lake, chill for the day. Yeah. That's cool. Nice refreshing swim. Now we're heading to this small patch of trees here. I'm going to walk along the coast and see if we can find a nice calm place to cook some food and sleep for the night. This patch of trees does not seem as thick. Maybe it's doable. All right. It is doable, but it's a little bit claustrophobic as well. So I might head back to the first patch of trees we saw there, but there are definitely options. I want something a little bit tastier this time. We got tired of eating the cans. I'm using some of these solid fuel tablets and this little small stove to heat up my water here. We'll get it tomorrow, if not tomorrow, the day after. We're not in a rush. Over here is Poison. He's chilling as well. The weather is great. The moon is bright. The crickets are having an orchestra along with the festivals. It's chill. Good night. Good morning. A lot of weird noises, but the crickets basically drowned everything out. It was pretty comfortable. Another one beautiful day. Still feeling a bit lazy, but I'm gonna start packing up, head back into town, head back to the yard. This is behind the scenes. This is how Poison prepares for his shots. Yeah, there is also always a lot of preparation. Give a serious performance this time. All right. Like in Italy. Determined look. More determined than that. A little bit less determined. There you go. That's a good one. I needed to just walk. Actually not going to count down because he does his best. Come on. You do your best performances when you're not. Cut. That was great. See, real professional. One take. We never need more than one. Master of work. And there you go. I feel like I need to tell you that today is Friday and we're thinking it's the last doable day of the week. There's usually very little to no traffic in the weekends that we're aware of at least. We're not sure what we're going to do if we don't catch today, but I guess we'll see you the right. So yeah, that's a bit of an insight what's going on in our heads while we wait for the food and I'm going to get on the bus, get to the yard. Looks good. Okay, so I already see I think the same train from yesterday still standing. Oh, but there's something new. I think this is a coal train. We're looking for the papers. Went all the way to the back. We think the papers are in the front all the way there. Okay, that's better. Yeah, there is a paper here. So it's going in the right direction, I assume. Another train pulled in. It's not the greatest. It has these weird things, but we can maybe lay on this side because the station's on the other side. So either this one's going to leave first or the coal or both. They're both not great, but any distance we do on it would be coincidental because it's just begging to get seen on it. If we're desperate enough by the time it moves maybe we'll hop on it. We're hoping for the coal one to move. It's filled to the very top. It would be hard to hide, but the catchphrase we'll see. Not much more. We switched locations. Chilled there for a couple of hours. Nothing really moved, but we headed to the further part of the yard where more stationary trains are. We assumed this part would be more dead, but there is a locomotive attached to a wagon connection with coal, but the last three wagons are empty. So not only is it prepped to leave, there are actually wagons we can get in and hide. Hungry? Damn. Another bust. All right, we're back here again. So we waited for about six, seven hours. We don't even know. We waited out a storm too. There was a storm going. Nothing moved. Literally nothing moved out of both yards. Trains came in. They didn't leave. We're thinking we're gonna go to the next big station forward in the city of Novi Sad. We're going to skip like 100 kilometers of track, but we want some progression. Maybe we can even catch a train for the evening. We'll see. While walking, we did a little bit of research. We're still on the way to the station. It turns out the entire line from this city to the city that we decided to go by bus, Novi Sad, is closed. Closed for traffic. Subotica-Novi Sad line for section overhaul. That's what the article says. It's a fresh article. So yeah, some freights pass, some passengers, but very non-frequent. They just do a bunch of sorting. A lot of the movement I assume occurs at night. I guess we made a good choice by deciding to go by bus to that city, but we just did not read the information soon enough and spent the day waiting. Or two days. I'm tired as hell. So yeah, heading to the bus station now. Hopefully we're gonna have more luck in the next We did it. We're in the new Novi Sad. Heading to the yard now. The city is busy, lively. It's quite bigger than Subotica. Get out of here as soon as you can towards Belgrade. It's gonna be a night surf, but hey, what the hell. Might as well try. This is the yard. I see a couple of hedgehogs. There is a bigger one that's running away right now, and then there's that one who thinks he's so sneaky nobody sees him, but I see you. There is a booth with a lot of light right there. I assume that's the guard. At this point of day we can just take anything that drives by. We don't have to worry that much about people spotting us. The weather seems chill. Nothing, nothing. We're going to sleep. All right, these are in the very back of the station near the bushes. If there's no people inside them, they're perfect. This looks good enough. Montenegro time. I'm gonna set up here, sleep, see what happens in the morning. I'm dead tired. Can't really say anything about tomorrow or today because it's already way past midnight, but I'm just going to try to rest and see what's up when we wake up. Good night. Good morning. The yard has been quite chill still. Some beeps, some boops here and there, but pretty calm to sleep. I don't think the odds are very good of leaving out of here as well, but we're gonna pack up, walk out, and see what's up. Nothing's coming, nothing's going. No point in staying here. We'll stop torturing ourselves that the track's going to go to the river. Maybe try a couple of rooftops along the way. So this, this is the main reason why we're not getting any trains. This is supposed to be the original railway that we would go through, I assume, and it's all under construction. So that way is towards Belgrade, and there are alternative tracks, but they're very slow and wobbly, and there's not a lot of traffic going that way now. We're gonna take it as it comes, and we're gonna try to ease our minds and satisfy our bodies in some different way. Like the river. Or the rooftops. Something. We're gonna try to enjoy this city. Thank you. Just two boys looking for a good time. Same difference. Even the roofs are blessed. This is not the only one we tried. We tried a couple more, but didn't manage to get up, so we're gonna try the river. It's cooler than the lake. It's nice. Re-energized. The river really helped. The city is nice, but we still want to progress today. We're thinking we're just going to get to Belgrade, and from there, more traffic, more opportunities to go out of the city on a freight and yeah, progression. We're gonna chill out, rest, regroup tomorrow, Sunday. So there's not going to be a lot of freight traffic anywhere in the whole country. Climb some roofs, have some fun, and continue the journey on Monday. So when I was swimming in the river, there was a brick. A very sharp, big piece of concrete, and as I was climbing out of the river, I just banged my foot on it like I kicked it, and at the top of my foot, there's quite a big gash. Now, I didn't feel any pain until we got to Belgrade. Like after I did my little we're in Belgrade introduction. I'll see how it is tomorrow I'm going to treat it, but yeah, hoping to hit some rooftops and hoping to be well by Monday, but we need this break. Basically it is.