i anyway prefer it over there. the serbian carpathians are my favourite place in the world since i first saw them in 2019, visiting Rtanj and climbing to the top of the mountain with the little chapel that was bombed in WW2 on top.

i subsequently visited a town called Despotovac, just a little northwest of Rtanj mountain and had a really good experience with two of the people i met there, one, an old granny driving an old tank of a yugo commie car, and then an autoelectrician who fed me and gave me some beer. was during the lockdowns. was no lockdown outside of the big cities in serbia. even the regional trains were still running as normal.