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Thankyou thankyou thankyou i am loving this adventure and the way you portray it, so refreshing to hear a positive take on this region and its people, Lucy should be a professional narrator, so perfectly spoken both of you. 😉
Oh thanks so much! That’s really nice to hear 😄 I never used to think I had a good voice for narration tbh but I guess it’s the way I read. We’re all about seeing countries for what they truly are and not just what you hear in the media so we like to portray this true experience of these places in our videos ☺️
Such a nice and friendly couple! And everything is filmed with a great heart for the country and the people. Very awesome - and very authentic. I love these videos!
Thank you for the starting message both of you :) means a lot to us all. I’m gonna watch now and dad is gonna watch it with me again later. Love you both
You would of had a different opinion of Kosovo 20 years ago I spent 6 months in a fairly hostile pristina in 2000 Its good to see things are stable there now..
Great video guys as usual, we're definitely going to make the effort to visit Kosovo but we'll save it until after March 2021 when it's not ridiculously cold! That part of road you had to squeeze through was actually terrifying to watch - you guys are very brave, I think we'd have just pulled over and made a cuppa until they'd moved :-)
Awesome guys, would totally recommend! Although it’s such a fast-changing country, who knows what it’ll be like in a year’s time? Honestly we did not want to drive through that bit, but the guy just had such a jolly smile we went along with it 😂
You mention how different ethnic and religious groups appear to get on well. That is good to hear. I was working in a mine in Australia when the civil wars broke out in former Yugoslavia in 1990. There were a number of men who were either born in Yugoslavia or who's parents were. They were all best of mates as most people tend to be in isolated communities. You have to be. Within days of the conflict breaking out they divided into two groups; those identifying with Serbia and those with Croatia. They stopped speaking to eachother. They tried to get the rest of us to take their side. It was both a sad and unexpected state of affairs to witness. Later I got to know a couple who had met in Belgrade which, like any capital city, attracted people from all over the country. He was a Serb, she a Croatian, although both had Hungarian as their first language. Their families and friends ostracised them. Their young children were bullied at school. I even knew a woman who was brought into the conflict due to her surname; which she had because of being married to a man who's grandfather was Yugoslavian! And this was in Australia! I really enjoy your videos. They're very professionally made and give a contemporary impression of an area I know little about. Many thanks for all your work and long may they continue. It's also nice seeing the Convoy giving good service, and of course, the Cornish flag on the back! I've subscribed and will work my way through your videos. Greetings from St Austell. Where are you both from?
Yes in Kosovo it's very refreshing to see. It's interesting that you could observe these tensions even halfway across the globe. There are still tensions we've noticed between countries here, sometimes petty rivalries but sometimes a lot more. The conflict between Serbia and Kosovo being a prime example as it stretches beyond just politics into people's daily lives (i.e. every time we post something about Kosovo we get backlash online from Serbian keyboard warriors). But then we witnessed Serbs and Kosovans and Albanians and Roma all working together in a radio station in Pristina, so not everyone feels so strongly about the subject. Thank you for the lovely feedback about our videos too! Always repping Cornwall and the LDV haha. You're not too far from us, we're from the Redruth area 🤙
I was born in Kosovo, but I'm actually a global citizen with an international soul. So I go around the world and never have problems with people, regardless of their nationalities or religions. Thanks for the nice video
Really beautiful collage of cultures and the contrasts elevate them all. Very impressive and many lessons to be learnt. You've captured their essence again, painted a mural of a gentle proud and strong society. A lot to take in, looking forward to the documentary too, but I'd not hesitate to visit. You have definitely given them a voice and showed the world what can happen when our humanity prevails. A gem in your catalog no doubt.
These mosques used to be quiet a few years back, a big portion of Kosovars dont even like the constant singing (very secular) but cities are allowing them to blast songs full on. Which isn't the nicest thing to hear at 6 in the morning lol. But then again this is Prizren and theyre pretty religious over there, so this probably doesn't apply over there.
This is just the beginning of what we put it through 😂 although the poor old girl is starting to show its distain now and throwing up some issues for us to work out! Thanks for watching 🙏
#kosovo #pristina #travel Would You TRAVEL Here? 🇽🇰｜KOSOVO VANLIFE Is it even safe to travel there? Well, of course you should, and yes it is! If you’re interested in finding out more about this wonderful area of the Balkans then you’ve come to the right place.
Came over when i saw the tour video on florbs channel, i immediately was intrigued by your DIY hot water heater, do u have a video on how u made it and put it together?
Hey, no unfortunately we didn’t film any of the van conversion! But we do have a guide over on our website as to how we built everything in our van- www.fromrusttoroadtrip.com/thebuild
Really enjoying your travels, & they get better & better,. Lucy, I think you mean "macedoine" referring to vegetables cut in small cubes, nice try though! safe travels, Martin from Belgium.
@@alksmusic6188 Someone told you false information, but relax, mate, you don't have to be frustrated. Nobody were talking about politics here, don't be a savage.
@@alksmusic6188 Mate, I don't need to go to Wikipedia, I live here and I know the situation. There are around 8000 Serbs and around 3000 Albanians. I just stated a fact, it's a Serbian municipality, same as those of the north of Kosovo. It's not my problem that you see provocation and politics in everything.
Really enjoying your videos, very refreshing. Would be interested to know whether you head for the rougher roads or that is just the country. You often mention SIM cards, but what phone do you use? Could you also put a route map to see the actual roads. Keep producing the videos and don’t change the content.
It’s a guilty pleasure of ours to seek out the worst and most remote roads we can get our van to drive on, we love the adventure of it and it’s made us realise our next van will certainly be a 4x4. Truthfully, most of the bad roads we take aren’t main routes to anywhere particular and many of the major roads are better, they just don’t excite us as much and we tend not to film them. We just use a regular iPhone with a local sim which provides hugely cheaper data packages than the UK would let us use in non EU countries. We’ve got a rough route map on our website that details our vague direction from start to finish but it’s impossible to get it completely accurate and many of the fun roads we end up taking don’t even show up on there. Thanks for following along pleased you like the content 🙂
Kosovo looks amazing but road system looks a bit rough bit like our roads here in south lincs, mud and potholes you are really putting that poor old ldv through it.. hope you keep safe already looking forward till next time love mouse..
Yeah the roads are pretty varied quality out here but on the whole they’re pretty good in Kosovo I think they must’ve been resurfacing this road as it was awful lol. The LDV is a beast is seems to love it but not sure for how long 😂 Cheers for watching see you next Sunday for the next one
Most of our music comes from epidemic sound these days. The music is great on there and it doesn’t run the risk of copyright claims. We’ve used copyright free music from TH-cam until recently but it’s not safe anymore as we’ve had a claim on a song by a dodgy company and now they take the revenue from one of our videos which sucks!
It’s fairly cold through the winter. I think we’ve been extremely lucky this season to have very mild temps but it can reach -20c. We wish we’d stayed longer in hindsight but we had a plan to get down to Greece for Christmas (videos are quite delayed).
as for an information in Kosovo there are not more than 100 inhabitants of Turkey those who speak Turkish receive salaries of 200-400 euros and to assimilate this is a policy of the Turkish ruler's
Came here from the Reddit, I am from Prizren. Seeing what you guys recorded in Prizren I can see that you missed out so much from the city and it's culture but hopefully you making it as a priority to come back will give you enough time to explore and stuff.
Gypsies - pajoritive? A people gain identity by place, state, borders etc. Travelers, vanlifers, Gypsies, very difficult (maybe lazy) to call people by the name they want to be called when you don't have any reference points. Saying Gypsies is pajoritive turns contact into a minefield. This is not me having a go at you. You are making a video and many say it's negative, but I have no idea what to call these people unless they have a known identity and they are a very fractured cultures. I am Welsh-born British, but I hate what England and Wales has become. This is a pretty bad way to feel when you are 59yrs old, given that Brexit is really a UK trade war against the EU. Anyway, I rant too much. Great video, you two are up there as some of the very best at what you do. I must say that I'm a little precious of my van & I'm not sure I could subject it to those road conditions. I am planning to upgrade the rear leaf springs and put on a set of serious tyres, so who knows what I will do.👍
Hey, I totally understand your point. It gets more confusing too, we’ve met Romani people previously who refer to themselves as gypsy. Same goes for Irish travellers too. Some use the term and some hate it. It’s such a hard thing to try and get our heads around but we just tend to go with whatever preference people have that we meet along the way. Keeps it simple. We also don’t like what England has become and are looking for an exit plan in the future to find a country we resonate more deeply with. It’s sad to feel so disconnected from our roots but we just don’t feel like we fit in with England or English culture. Cheers for the comment, always keen to open up a debate. 😃🙏🚐
But population is 95 percent albanians rest is serbijans boshnjak turks gypsis and thous boys they helpd vith push ther albanians and mother terisa she is albanian from macedonia and 34 percent of macedonia is albanian
There is not enough detail in your videos. Little things, like how did you meet that guy who spoke English? Please ensure that you pronounce everything correctly.
It was just a random encounter whilst out and about but you're completely right. We think the same about more context and we've improved on that in the videos we're working on right now. Stick with us. It's hard for us to pronounce everything correctly, but our apologies if it isn't up to your standard. I'm sure you are aware it can be difficult to pronounce foreign place names if you aren't from the area or even the country! But we do try our best.
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If you come again please contact me I like you to be my guest 100% thnx for showing our country.
Thankyou thankyou thankyou i am loving this adventure and the way you portray it, so refreshing to hear a positive take on this region and its people, Lucy should be a professional narrator, so perfectly spoken both of you. 😉
Oh thanks so much! That’s really nice to hear 😄 I never used to think I had a good voice for narration tbh but I guess it’s the way I read. We’re all about seeing countries for what they truly are and not just what you hear in the media so we like to portray this true experience of these places in our videos ☺️
Such a nice and friendly couple! And everything is filmed with a great heart for the country and the people. Very awesome - and very authentic. I love these videos!
Thank you for the starting message both of you :) means a lot to us all. I’m gonna watch now and dad is gonna watch it with me again later. Love you both
Of course man, it’s the least we could do :) Hope you enjoy
th-cam.com/video/pdYe2QMk6Lc/w-d-xo.html
Have been watching your videos today, really well put together. Loving the road trip !
Thanks so much! ☺️
You would of had a different opinion of Kosovo 20 years ago I spent 6 months in a fairly hostile pristina in 2000 Its good to see things are stable there now..
Great video guys as usual, we're definitely going to make the effort to visit Kosovo but we'll save it until after March 2021 when it's not ridiculously cold! That part of road you had to squeeze through was actually terrifying to watch - you guys are very brave, I think we'd have just pulled over and made a cuppa until they'd moved :-)
Awesome guys, would totally recommend! Although it’s such a fast-changing country, who knows what it’ll be like in a year’s time?
Honestly we did not want to drive through that bit, but the guy just had such a jolly smile we went along with it 😂
You mention how different ethnic and religious groups appear to get on well. That is good to hear. I was working in a mine in Australia when the civil wars broke out in former Yugoslavia in 1990. There were a number of men who were either born in Yugoslavia or who's parents were. They were all best of mates as most people tend to be in isolated communities. You have to be.
Within days of the conflict breaking out they divided into two groups; those identifying with Serbia and those with Croatia. They stopped speaking to eachother. They tried to get the rest of us to take their side. It was both a sad and unexpected state of affairs to witness.
Later I got to know a couple who had met in Belgrade which, like any capital city, attracted people from all over the country. He was a Serb, she a Croatian, although both had Hungarian as their first language. Their families and friends ostracised them. Their young children were bullied at school.
I even knew a woman who was brought into the conflict due to her surname; which she had because of being married to a man who's grandfather was Yugoslavian! And this was in Australia!
I really enjoy your videos. They're very professionally made and give a contemporary impression of an area I know little about. Many thanks for all your work and long may they continue. It's also nice seeing the Convoy giving good service, and of course, the Cornish flag on the back!
I've subscribed and will work my way through your videos.
Greetings from St Austell.
Where are you both from?
Yes in Kosovo it's very refreshing to see. It's interesting that you could observe these tensions even halfway across the globe. There are still tensions we've noticed between countries here, sometimes petty rivalries but sometimes a lot more. The conflict between Serbia and Kosovo being a prime example as it stretches beyond just politics into people's daily lives (i.e. every time we post something about Kosovo we get backlash online from Serbian keyboard warriors). But then we witnessed Serbs and Kosovans and Albanians and Roma all working together in a radio station in Pristina, so not everyone feels so strongly about the subject.
Thank you for the lovely feedback about our videos too! Always repping Cornwall and the LDV haha. You're not too far from us, we're from the Redruth area 🤙
I was born in Kosovo, but I'm actually a global citizen with an international soul. So I go around the world and never have problems with people, regardless of their nationalities or religions.
Thanks for the nice video
Another great video folks. Always interesting
Thank you very much 😃
Really beautiful collage of cultures and the contrasts elevate them all. Very impressive and many lessons to be learnt. You've captured their essence again, painted a mural of a gentle proud and strong society. A lot to take in, looking forward to the documentary too, but I'd not hesitate to visit. You have definitely given them a voice and showed the world what can happen when our humanity prevails. A gem in your catalog no doubt.
These mosques used to be quiet a few years back, a big portion of Kosovars dont even like the constant singing (very secular) but cities are allowing them to blast songs full on. Which isn't the nicest thing to hear at 6 in the morning lol. But then again this is Prizren and theyre pretty religious over there, so this probably doesn't apply over there.
Nice reportage. Hope you enjoyed our mountains.
Thank you! We loved the mountains
Love Your videos. You guys surely travels some different roads. :)
Haha that we do! We’re certainly not ones to follow the beaten path. Thanks for watching! ☺️
Greetings from Cornwall aka home great video folks
Hey Mark thanks for tuning in glad you liked it 🙂 hope the weather is improving back home now!
It's not too bad weather wise at the moment looks like you both are having a fab time
Good to hear it yeah it’s been a good trip so far 😃
Loved it superb content as always guys well done
Thanks that’s much appreciated 🙏
Great vlog. Love your channel you really put the van to its limit lol keep up great work 👍🏴👍
This is just the beginning of what we put it through 😂 although the poor old girl is starting to show its distain now and throwing up some issues for us to work out! Thanks for watching 🙏
@@FromRustToRoadtrip well we really enjoy your vlogs they are so different to what's out there you go to the most amazing places 👍🏴👍
What a beautiful video fellow vanlifers 😎 👍
Ben and Lucy, Awesome, I enjoyed and thank you.
Thanks for watching 🙂
Hello beautiful ones
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Ace real life filming 📸
The best online 👍👍
Forever best wishes
of amazing safe adventures
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Cheers 🍷🍷
Thank you Darren pleased you enjoyed it 😃 best wishes to you
Been coming to Kosovo for years, you uncovered a different side to it I didn’t know existed.
#kosovo #pristina #travel
Would You TRAVEL Here? 🇽🇰｜KOSOVO VANLIFE
Is it even safe to travel there? Well, of course you should, and yes it is! If you’re interested in finding out more about this wonderful area of the Balkans then you’ve come to the right place.
Congratulations for your national holiday on 17th February Kosovo from your friends in Germany
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Enjoy you stay in Kosova
You more than welcome 🙏 to come in Kosova
Thank you very much 😃
Thank your for this very very beautiful Video, it's so nice, love your Videos, love your Trips 👍😘❤😁
Thank you, you’re so kind ☺️
I swear to God i was at the EXACT same place 1 month ago when i was on vacation.
You guys deserve a million subscribers. I hope you get there soon! Great job again,be safe💚
Aww thank you, that would be nice some day haha 😄
Came over when i saw the tour video on florbs channel, i immediately was intrigued by your DIY hot water heater, do u have a video on how u made it and put it together?
Hey, no unfortunately we didn’t film any of the van conversion! But we do have a guide over on our website as to how we built everything in our van- www.fromrusttoroadtrip.com/thebuild
Really enjoying your travels, & they get better & better,. Lucy, I think you mean "macedoine" referring to vegetables cut in small cubes, nice try though! safe travels, Martin from Belgium.
Thank you for giving a good credit about my country, you are alwise more then welcome to kosovo .
Thank you we really enjoyed our visit :)
I am from Strpce, the Serbian city in the video, so if you visit us again, let me know, I would like to be your guide. :)
The city of Shtërpca has 3.750 albanians and 3.150 serbs so don't go to fast conclusions.
The city is kosovar, part of the republic of Kosovo.
@@alksmusic6188 Someone told you false information, but relax, mate, you don't have to be frustrated. Nobody were talking about politics here, don't be a savage.
@@dusan142
Ok than go to Wikipedia .. you made it politic
@@alksmusic6188 Mate, I don't need to go to Wikipedia, I live here and I know the situation. There are around 8000 Serbs and around 3000 Albanians. I just stated a fact, it's a Serbian municipality, same as those of the north of Kosovo. It's not my problem that you see provocation and politics in everything.
@@dusan142
I won't insist, just wanted to point that this city is multicultural, so it should be called kosovar.
Really enjoying your videos, very refreshing. Would be interested to know whether you head for the rougher roads or that is just the country.
You often mention SIM cards, but what phone do you use?
Could you also put a route map to see the actual roads.
Keep producing the videos and don’t change the content.
It’s a guilty pleasure of ours to seek out the worst and most remote roads we can get our van to drive on, we love the adventure of it and it’s made us realise our next van will certainly be a 4x4.
Truthfully, most of the bad roads we take aren’t main routes to anywhere particular and many of the major roads are better, they just don’t excite us as much and we tend not to film them.
We just use a regular iPhone with a local sim which provides hugely cheaper data packages than the UK would let us use in non EU countries.
We’ve got a rough route map on our website that details our vague direction from start to finish but it’s impossible to get it completely accurate and many of the fun roads we end up taking don’t even show up on there.
Thanks for following along pleased you like the content 🙂
Kosovo looks amazing but road system looks a bit rough bit like our roads here in south lincs, mud and potholes you are really putting that poor old ldv through it.. hope you keep safe already looking forward till next time love mouse..
Yeah the roads are pretty varied quality out here but on the whole they’re pretty good in Kosovo I think they must’ve been resurfacing this road as it was awful lol. The LDV is a beast is seems to love it but not sure for how long 😂
Cheers for watching see you next Sunday for the next one
My family and me is from Kosovo 🇽🇰.
And Kosovo is beautiful 🥰💖💕💜💞🤍💙💙❣️
Thax for give us moment to listening athan in mosque.
Skopje back then was part of kosovo, so mother teresa is a kosovare, and her father actually is from prizren
Mother Teresa was Albanian from North Macedonia. Even if she was from Prizren she would be albanian the same, just like the majority of the kosovars.
Amazing!
Thanks for watching 🙏
what an exciting trip into ex Yugoslavia. Did you have any entry problems when you crossed borders. were there any visa requirements?
Nah no issues at all. Seemed quite surprised we were there but all perfectly friendly
I m planning to go cosovo with a work permit visa..I don’t know how it would be? But watching your videos It looks nice.
Best of luck! It's a great place to explore and meet some really nice people
Hahah you thought you were gonna hit that car until the Albanians showed up to help 💪😁
I know! It was so closed 😱 Very grateful to them haha
Where do you guys source this amazing music from?
Most of our music comes from epidemic sound these days. The music is great on there and it doesn’t run the risk of copyright claims. We’ve used copyright free music from TH-cam until recently but it’s not safe anymore as we’ve had a claim on a song by a dodgy company and now they take the revenue from one of our videos which sucks!
If u come again in kosovo 🇽🇰 i would like to hostel u guys also give a good tripe in sharri mounts near Brezovica
Thanks for the offer! That’s very kind of you, we’ll certainly be back! 😄
Amazing..!
What do I think...I think your vids are brilliant, missing Danna......
Thank you! 😃
Why dont you have Twitter acount?
Is it cold there all the time? Could you have stayed longer in Kosovo?
It’s fairly cold through the winter. I think we’ve been extremely lucky this season to have very mild temps but it can reach -20c. We wish we’d stayed longer in hindsight but we had a plan to get down to Greece for Christmas (videos are quite delayed).
@@FromRustToRoadtrip i live in prizren and 2 days ago it was 16 celsius
That’s crazy warm! Is it usual? Our friends there warned us that January can be extremely cold 🥶
@@FromRustToRoadtrip It can be that cold for a week or two in January, but summers can be very hot here also 35 to 38 celcius
How I like this dialect of Great Britain.
Welcome to the Republic of DARDANIA (Kosovo).
I hope you have a good time.🇦🇱🇽🇰
You even said .. you can feel the tension!!!
as for an information in Kosovo there are not more than 100 inhabitants of Turkey those who speak Turkish receive salaries of 200-400 euros and to assimilate this is a policy of the Turkish ruler's
That part of Serbia is so beautiful
🙄
This is fascinating info...the mainstream is rubbish isn't it
Perhaps the Romani People should form their own country.
Came here from the Reddit, I am from Prizren. Seeing what you guys recorded in Prizren I can see that you missed out so much from the city and it's culture but hopefully you making it as a priority to come back will give you enough time to explore and stuff.
Yeah we missed loads unfortunately but we’re certainly going to come back. Not sure when exactly, but we will and we’ll cover it more thoroughly 🙂
From Rust To Roadtrip You are always welcome. ❤️
I love Kosovo the best people in the world
Gypsies - pajoritive? A people gain identity by place, state, borders etc. Travelers, vanlifers, Gypsies, very difficult (maybe lazy) to call people by the name they want to be called when you don't have any reference points. Saying Gypsies is pajoritive turns contact into a minefield. This is not me having a go at you. You are making a video and many say it's negative, but I have no idea what to call these people unless they have a known identity and they are a very fractured cultures. I am Welsh-born British, but I hate what England and Wales has become. This is a pretty bad way to feel when you are 59yrs old, given that Brexit is really a UK trade war against the EU. Anyway, I rant too much. Great video, you two are up there as some of the very best at what you do. I must say that I'm a little precious of my van & I'm not sure I could subject it to those road conditions. I am planning to upgrade the rear leaf springs and put on a set of serious tyres, so who knows what I will do.👍
Hey, I totally understand your point. It gets more confusing too, we’ve met Romani people previously who refer to themselves as gypsy. Same goes for Irish travellers too. Some use the term and some hate it. It’s such a hard thing to try and get our heads around but we just tend to go with whatever preference people have that we meet along the way. Keeps it simple.
We also don’t like what England has become and are looking for an exit plan in the future to find a country we resonate more deeply with. It’s sad to feel so disconnected from our roots but we just don’t feel like we fit in with England or English culture.
Cheers for the comment, always keen to open up a debate. 😃🙏🚐
U should go to kosovo in summer btw thanks for visiting my country❤️ you should also go to Albania there are beautiful places there
Thank you for having us! You should check out the rest of our channel, we have many videos of our travels in Albania 🇦🇱☺️
Love from kosovo
But population is 95 percent albanians rest is serbijans boshnjak turks gypsis and thous boys they helpd vith push ther albanians and mother terisa she is albanian from macedonia and 34 percent of macedonia is albanian
I love my contry Kosovo Albania❤️
Incredible best place u have visited .
It was a beautiful and welcoming country. We hope to be able to return
the ugliest time in kosovo is january february
the best time to visit kosovo is May June
We found it so beautiful there in December but we’d love to return in summer months to see everything green 😃
@@FromRustToRoadtrip good ,, must go in rugova and prevala and Lipjan (shpella gadimes)
if you want to know what nature is, go rugova in may or june
Thank you for your help. We will note these places and make site we visit next time 🙏
@@FromRustToRoadtrip th-cam.com/video/pdYe2QMk6Lc/w-d-xo.html
Turkish is not an official language of Kosovo.
In the City of Prizren
You are cute, btw!
😉
There is not enough detail in your videos. Little things, like how did you meet that guy who spoke English? Please ensure that you pronounce everything correctly.
It was just a random encounter whilst out and about but you're completely right. We think the same about more context and we've improved on that in the videos we're working on right now. Stick with us.
It's hard for us to pronounce everything correctly, but our apologies if it isn't up to your standard. I'm sure you are aware it can be difficult to pronounce foreign place names if you aren't from the area or even the country! But we do try our best.
Thanks Chris that’s really nice to hear much appreciated 👍
Kosovo is Serbia dogodine u prizrenu
Mmmrrrrsssss Sfinju 🤣🤣 🇽🇰🇦🇱🇨🇭🇺🇲❤