Romanian Modernist Steel Town - and subsequent Serbian Welcome Back
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- Опубліковано 21 кві 2024
- 19. March - 14. April 2024. Wandering around my place in Vršac, Serbia, I noticed a plaque with an inscription that the iron bridges were forged at the steelworks in Reșița, Romania late 1800s (back when this part of Serbia and that part of Romania - the Banat region - were Austria-Hungary). I've never been to Reșița. It's only 1.5 hours from Vršac. Let's go to industrial socialist modernist Reșița!
And after Reșița, let's have a welcome back party in Timișoara, with special guest star,@TravelingAndBadDecisions!
Referenced videos:
Timișoara: • Romania's "Little Vienna"
Few weeks later, a beard appears 😁. Great video, thanks.
Its because of the people, they nest were they know its safe, here nobody chase or hunt them! We admire and apreciate them, and we feel blessed because they choose our town/city.
A golden nugget this town of resita!! 🤩thanks a lot
The cinema looks amazing ( not so much the screen but the ceiling )
biggest screen in romania! (ignoring bucharest)
such a nice video!
back in the day when we we're driving with the car to vršac (from vienna/austria - about 8-10 hours - depending on customs clearance at the borders: austria/hungary/romania/serbia) we always took a break in timișoara and at the border reșița/vršac we were mostly, not always, waved through, after we have successfully identified ourselves as neighbors (passport birthplace: vršac) and not looking suspicious. 😇😉
nowadays we're flying to belgrade (once we tried to fly to timișoara, we landed, with delay, around 23:00h - wow, this was so complicated to get a ride or a car to get to vršac, we only get a rental car which we had to submit in reșița and then walk through the border and a cousin was waiting at the "vršacian" side of the border)🙄
you're probably thinking of moravița (the border crossing with vršac)
@@FastEddieDice you're right! 👍
My mother is from Uzdin, a Romanian village in the Kovačica municipality, about 60 km from Belgrade. They have a lot of storks there, mainly because there are a lot of wetlands close by. They eat a lot of frogs and fish. Maybe the land around Vršac is drier?
Unsure. But the storks appear only a few seconds after crossing the border from Vršac!
@@FastEddieDicespooky!
Lovely. What kind of insurance do you buy to drive your lovely car in Serbia and RO? Thanks
Great question! I’ve been uninsured since 2016 through 45 countries. Turkey has thus far been the only country that makes me purchase when entering. Consistently. That said, I purchased a 6-month green card insurance from some company in Rotterdam in 2015
@FastEddieDice
Eddie thank you very much. The reason why I am asking, my Canadian Serbs won't tell me all the secrets about using US/CAD plated cars in Europe. However, lots people are shipping them over, so I knew many details were missing. Thank you.
@@IvansBikesBmws obviously, legally, you should have insurance. regarding serbia, in the 20+ times I’ve been pulled over, I’ve only been asked for my passport. At the border, if they ask for proof of insurance, which has happened twice, I say I’m covered by my credit card (makes zero sense). Actually, once a cop DID ask me for insurance, and I pointed to “class C” on my drivers license, and answered “no insurance. CLASS C.” That did the trick
@FastEddieDice Wow what an eye opener. Thank you Eddie. I think I could drink beer all night with Ya and talk about it. Btw I am from Novo Gorazde / Medjedja, so thank for that Medjedje/Visegrad clip.
@FastEddieDice Eddie one last question please, how much did it cost ya to ship over that Toyota? From what port to what port? Thanks again.
Cinema Dacia was finished in 1973, not 1963. I moved there (strada Progresului) in 1970 and 1 year later I was playing through the construction sites/rooms of the Cinema, still in contruction.
the informational board mounted to the building states that it was completed in 1963, both in romanian and english
@FastEddieDice
Ok, but it's dead wrong.
I explained the reality above.
In 1963 not even the first "micro raion" (center/oldest part of Govandari ("new city/Resita) was build, let alone this side, which eas constructed much later.
General school nr. 7 is on thar street. When I was little and at that school, I watched how THE FIRST EVER BUILDING was built across of the school, in that area which became later known as "micro raion 3" (micro raion = "neighbourhood"), when at that time this micro raion didn't existed yet, thus the long flat building (7 entrances) across the school was named "block 64", and later "Block 1" (as well as now) when the micro raion 3 exists).
Right of it (where later the Dacia theatre was build), at the time I was at that school (and watched the flat building across of it being built) was just grass like a savannah.
Later (1970) we moved in that at building (64, later nr.1) and saw how the Dacia theatre was built (we played in it in the weekend when the workers weren't there, i got "infected" allover my skin by the glass whool matrases deposited in a room which was to become later the foyer), and in about 1973 it was ready. It had small cafetaries in the foyer.
So it that plaque says "1963", than the one ordering it to put it there, must be a retard.
Wish I could attach a photo of it. Guess they made a typo
Minute 41:35. Interesting that she does not name it with it's modern name "Salcâm", but the ancient word, which she pronounce it also double wrong (probable she heard t wrong from somebody yars back and now keeps it in that version) like "Bágrin". It's not "Bágrin", but "Băgrin", with the accent on the second syllable, not the first, and it's "Băgrin", not "Bagrin". Listen to her again, sounds like "Bágrem". It's possible that she is not Romanian, I hear some slavic dialog among the girls. (Serbian?). Possible that in Serbia they call it "Bágrem". The slavic languages are derived from old Dacian language, which is today Romanian. Ex-Yugoslavia was long time part of the Austrian-Hungarian empire. The hungarians put the accent on the first syllable, at almost every word.
she said it correctly in her language, which is serbian