It's already time to go leaving Amsterdam. It's nice to see the family though
It's time to go to Bucharest. Bucharest. A
kind of blue air. Ever heard of them either. We
made it to BUCA. I can believe we're in another country that we had no idea
We would come a week ago, but right now we're waiting for our luggage. We're gonna find our train to the city
I think our bus check in an Air BNB and we'll show you guys around tomorrow
I did good morning guys. Welcome to our new home in Bucharest
We weren't planning on showing you guys this Air BNB, but we got here and it turns out it's absolutely amazing
I think we got a really good deal because we're probably the first people to ever stay here. So we're gonna show you around our
beautiful apartment and we're gonna hit the streets of Bucharest. Uh I think I did something
wrong. So this is obviously the kitchen and it has everything we need
Also, we got all these delicious Romanian snacks from our amazing airbnb hosts
I already tried. This one wasn't a huge fan, but I'm gonna try some of these other ones after breakfast
I do have to watch my head entering the different rooms in this apartment. But welcome to our cozy living room
This is like a little breakfast nook. I think Joanna Gaines would call it a very comfortable couch
And the best part are all like the, I don't know, very cozy decorations for Romania
like all over the apartment. She did a very nice job and a special touch of a record player with old traditional Romanian music
We have a very comfortable bed and a scene which means it's very, very difficult to get up in the morning
We have a walk-in closet that you can't walk in because of our suitcase and kind of like a working area
Also very nice decorations in here. And this is the bathroom, it has everything that a bathroom usually has
except for it has a fish wallpaper. I've identified five of the six species of fish on the wallpaper
a toilet where you can flush the toilet paper. So thumbs up for BUCA so far and that's it
Time to explore bu So our building
is very cute and all and it's in the center of the old city, but it's in a sketchy looking little street that it's fine
during the day. But during the night, it's a little bit red lighting
but it's ok. You just walk the other way and you're like surrounded by all these beautiful buildings
So the first thing we noticed when we started walking around Bucharest is like the huge contrast between like all the buildings and the architecture
So there's like this really elegant European style buildings next to like brown down like Soviet style buildings next to massive like communist
style, like government buildings. And in order to understand like why the city looks this way
you need like a little bit of a crash course in Buca's history. So
here's what we've learned so far in the late 18 hundreds, Romania was ruled by a German born prince who was sent here
But when he arrived, like he thought this place looks super ugly and it was super poor
So he asked to be sent back to Germany, but they say no, no, you have to stay there
So he was like, well, if I'm gonna stay here, I might as well make the city look pretty
And he was super obsessed with like Western Europe and with like France specifically
So he had a bunch of like French looking buildings built all over the city so much
So that is at what point was nicknamed Paris of the East or Little Paris
And that's why we see buildings like this one. And this one so
fast forward, 30 years past the Russian occupation of Romania and were introduced to Romania's first communist dictator
I'm not gonna try to pronounce his name. We'll put it right here, but I'm just gonna call him George George was much more evil
than he gets credit for it. It's estimated that he killed up to 1.6 million people during his dictatorship
mostly like the elites and the educated people or anyone he thought was a threat to his power
But anyway, when he was, the dictator still started to grow and they needed more housing and they built these
like, very depressing and drab Soviet style buildings like the ones you see behind me after George came
Romania's most infamous dictators. I believe I'm pronouncing that correctly. But anyway
we'll put his name down below and actually S's dictatorship, it started off pretty moderate
like most people were living reasonably well, like all things considered. But then a trip to North Korea and China changed everything
He saw all these like grand communist administrative buildings and palaces. And he's like
you know what I want to bring that back to, to Bucharest. So he started like investing in all these massive projects like the parliament
building behind me, the giant fountain system in the middle of Bucharest and also one of the widest avenues in all of Europe
But the government had to take out loans for all of these ambitious projects. And eventually they were just doing way too much that they
couldn't repay those loans. So the government had to cut back on spending and this is a very
very dark period for the remaining people started that they had to like begin like rationing
food, electricity and water and just like basic necessities. And it all started with like the construction of all these like Grand Communist buildings by
And it's very interesting cities like walk around like all these like different people had influences like every corner you turn
it's like a Communist building or a beautiful, like European building, like a rundown Soviet building
And the next that is a very interesting city. We
hope you guys enjoy this brief history lesson. Whenever we arrive to a new country
we like to learn like some basic things. And what we just explained was just very
very basic in a natural, modern Romanian history. But we're done with that part
Now we are going to a local market that was recommended by our Airbnb host and we're walking to our guide and it's supposed to
be really cool and of course they have delicious foods and it's lunchtime and of course we're gonna try delicious traditional Romanian foods
Fun fact about Bucharest. They have Uber. It's a game changer. We haven't had Uber since Merida Mexico
12 minutes though. Hello? Hi. Where are you from? Uh, the US America US
Yeah. The land of dreams. The land of dreams. Yes. Everyone wants to go there
Yeah. Yeah, I know. That's true. And you will come here and now where do you go to the market
Uh, over to the market? Yeah. Is it good? It's good. Yeah
Do they have good food. Uh-huh. Yeah, it's good. I was eating that
Yeah. So we arrived to market, which is like a very old and beautiful market
They have incredible produce. It's very well organized, very clean. We put our camera out and I think someone like announced us to like the
crowd. So I don't know that the camera was very welcome. So we put it away and we went to a place to get lunch
and they ran out of which we have here and luckily they do still have it. This is our first taste of real Romanian food
So it's pretty exciting. I got a beer also. Very good. I think bread goes with me and I think it's like a mix of
like skinless sausage. And our Uber driver said it's not sausage, sausage
It's not me is not sausage, sausage. It's something else. So sausage is sausage and meat is something else
It's, it's something special. I
don't know how to eat this. I
love this. It's very awesome. The mustard. It's not like spicy. It's a little bit like sweet dark mustard
grilled meat. This is delicious. I feel we're gonna eat a lot of this in the next 30 days
Put you love it. So
our introduction to Romanian food was amazing. But now it's time to hop on the subway and we're gonna find a beer garden that was
recommended by several local people. We're gonna see where the cool people at. Bucharest hang out. You ready
Yeah, let's go find the subway. Let's
figure this one out. Welcome to the Buha Metro. I don't know what we're doing
Maybe it's not a metro and it's like a tram but I don't know where to buy tickets
Maybe this is me for
light. So apparently there's no filming on the metro but we don't know where we're going
We said this way, I don't know. So
some places in Bucharest are a little bit gritty. I was expecting the subway to do the same
but it was surprisingly nice and we also have no idea where we are. So let's see what's up
I doubt we got up in the right stop. But all of a sudden we're in this like super cool neighborhood and we have like
a 15 minute walk to our brewery and it's never fun to just like jump in the subway and just like pop up somewhere that
we probably wouldn't have come otherwise. So it's kind of cool cheers
to Bucharest. So it turns out that Bucharest also has a local craft beer scene
which is amazing because I haven't had a proper IP A in months. It took a little bit of time for us to warm up
to Bucharest. But it is a pretty cool city. Like the contrasts are amazing. You just like turn to different corners and it like the
old style buildings like Soviet buildings really hip spots too. So it is a great spot to visit tomorrow
We hop on a train to Transylvania. We cannot wait to show you the rest of Romania and to show you the rest of this
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