And she threw like chucked the vase at the TV screen it just flew past the
television and boof! landed beside about everything all over the place of course
was inside he didn't actually break the vase fortunately it was a pretty strong one at
that stage I thought my friend was gonna fucking punch this girl ...
Всем привет! Welcome back to another episode of the
vodka vodcast with me Conor Clyne this is Tsar Experience and in today's
episode of the vodcast I'm going to be going into some of my travel stories
here in the region and why maybe you might consider and coming here if you're
looking for a different type of travel experience than you're gonna get in the
mainstream locations especially in Western Europe you're not gonna find
this kind of experience here today I'm speaking to you from Odessa in Ukraine
on the shores of the Black Sea you can see the Black Sea behind me I'm at the
port and unfortunately there's a lot of this music when I came down here but I'm
still gonna persist and go ahead hopefully it won't be too distracting on
the audio and let's get into it so when I first started traveling here I've
already gone into a lot of the stories a lot of the things that happened to me on
that very first trip like so I came a travel on my own that's gonna be back in
vodcast number 4 and number 5 I go into my dating journey here in Ukraine a good
bit so if you're interested in those then go ahead and if you haven't already
watched them of course go back and look for them that's gonna be episodes 4 & 5
but in today's episode I want to start telling some of the stories from a very
special trip I took. It would have been about almost 5 years ago and I took it
with my sensei now I mentioned my sensei back in episode 5 of course he comes up
in it before we hung out here in Odessa,
we took our first trip to get a first travel trip in Eastern Europe and it was
actually his first time to Eastern Europe and I think it's a really good series of
stories to tell you because if you haven't traveled so much here or like my
sensei you're gonna be dependent on English to a certain extent when you
travel here then this is actually pretty a good series of stories to learn for
yourself and maybe get inspired to take similar trips now of course I was on the
trip and I do speak Russian and I also speak Romanian so that was something
that he had kind of like interpreter and my guidance with him on that trip so
that helped obviously quite a bit with communication on the trips but a lot of
this the issues that came up and a lot of the crazy things that happened
hopefully gives you a good bit of an explanation as to why I would choose
to travel in Eastern Europe over Western Europe of course I've traveled
everywhere in Europe to make that as a big disclaimer at the beginning I've
traveled all fifty countries so I kind of get a good overview of everything
basically and then I spend more time in this region than I do in Western Europe a lot
of reasons for that one of them actually if you look at my video my vodcast
episode about why I spent summers here in Odessa in particular then you're
gonna get a good indication of that it's also a little bit different for me I
know a lot of you guys watch me because you've told me it's because I'm a
Western European who's come to Eastern Europe and the story you can relate to
me to a large extent because of that also you know I have worked as a lawyer
in Western Europe so a lot of you who have maybe professional jobs
like that you also want to take these kind of similar trips or maybe you're an
entrepreneur like I am at the moment so these kind of things that helps you to
relate to me and I want to continue that but giving you a little
bit of a taste of what happened on the first trip that I took in my sensei
here in Eastern Europe so to give you an overview of what we were doing was just
after EuroMaidan the revolution that took place in Ukraine that led to
the overthrow and replacement of Viktor Yanukovych who was the president who was
to simplify it he was pro-Russian versus pro-European the president and
I'm gonna give you in a different video my experience of I've actually beine at Euro
Maidan I'll shoot that actually I'll try to shoot that in Kiev actually
on the square itself I think that will make it a little bit more helpful for you
to understand you'll be able to see things around me when I do that but this is
just after that and Ukraine is in a certain amount of chaos at the time and
my sensei had asked do you said I trust you whatever you want to do completely
in your hands the itinerary you just pick it and we'll go and do it so I said
okay let's go on this trip we got 12 days that's that's gonna play for play
with and we're gonna go to Romania, Moldova and Ukraine and I'm gonna try
and cram in as many cities and experiences that we can in 12 days so
that's the backdrop that's the political
situation in the region there is a certain amount of turmoil there is a
certain amount of an element of danger to a certain extent of Russia it's just
before Russia annexed Crimea and then subsequently the war in Donbass began in
the east of Ukraine so it's a little bit before I think it's probably was
probably April of 2000 and would be 2014 yeah 2014 the square on Maidan actually
still had a lot of different irregular militias and other groups that haven't
controlling it actually at the time anyways so I was given these twelve days
to play with to plan on an itinerary and I said okay we're gonna go to Bucharest,
Chisinau, Balti, Vinnitsa, Kiev and Kharkov now you may be familiar with some
of those cities at least the names like probably Kiev probably Bucharest the
capital of Romania not maybe don't recognize the rest of the names on the
list so Chisinau is the capital of Moldova Balti is a city in the north of
Moldova that's a very interesting decision to go there and then Vinnitsa
is ... lies kind of in the west center of Ukraine and the reason to go there was
just simply if you go to Balti it's in northern Moldova it's kind of next city towards
Kiev is Vinnitsa and then Kiev obviously the capital heard of that probably and
Kharkiv is in the east of Ukraine I do have a great travel vlog from Kharkov
that I made a couple of months ago so I'll link that in the card somewhere up
above and put it down in the description in the show notes if you're listening
this on the podcast version definitely go and take a look at that if you're
interested it's a really good popular vlog it's actually the most popular
video about Charkov I believe on YouTube by a longshot
already within a couple of months or super-stoked about the popularity and
how many people have enjoyed that video so why did I pick such a bizarre
itinerary well he wanted to experience the real east of Europe instead of
saying hey let's go to all the capitals and do kind of very obvious touristy
things I said let's make this an adventure
Chisinau the Capital of Moldova so maybe now it's the least
visited country Belarus used to be the least this is a country in Europe and
now that they've changed their visa regime it's it's more open so I picked
this itinerary to I bring him to different places that
really tourists wouldn't have gone to Balti was a curious decision to go into
more in that it's actually northern Moldova and yeah was it was definitely
different when we got there and then Vinnitsa is on the way it's it's kind of
a sweet town but between you know between the Moldovan border and Kiev and of
course Kiev capital you have to go there and Kharkov is a great city to have fun
in to party and basically that's was why I wanted us to go there so we
started in Bucharest now at the time Bucharest had my I mean ... I have a travel vlog
about Bucharest as well which I'll link in another card I guess now that I
talked about and in the description it's also very popular one it's not ...
Bucharest is not my favorite city in Eastern Europe I'll be very frank about that but it
does have some great reasons to go there as well and hopefully get a good good a
glimpse of that in in my video but at the time it actually had a really really
great night at a nightclub on a Thursday I remember it was called Gaia so the trip
had to start actually on the Wednesday so I was like but we're gonna start in
Bucharest in and I'm gonna take you to Gaia this club in Bucharest and that
would be the first port of call so we arrived and it's interesting how
languages can have a big influence on your life so I meet my friend at the
airport everything's cool we get a taxi in at the time it was a little bit dodgy at
Bucharest airport you used to actually have to take the taxis coming in
dropping people off not get a taxi actually waiting for you at the airport
now of course you have there the apps make it a lot safer but it was a big
issue with security at the time a lot of people been robbed by taxi drivers and actually
even murdered there was one case so the rule of thumb at the time in Bucharest
was to take a taxi that's coming in not one that's waiting loitering for someone
to abduct or rob at the airport that was the kind of yeah Bucharest has
improved a lot now you don't have to be scared of that today of course you can
take an app they have tickets that you can press on a screen in the airport
even and it's all traceable and of course if you have your app it's all
traceable so I wouldn't be worried about that now but anyway so I
called on the phone the for the Airbnb apartment that I rented for us in the
center of Bucharest and the woman I spoke to me I think in Romanian
originally and then it for some reason I must have said hey do you also speak
Russian which would be unusual in in Romania or maybe had earlier actually
in the chat or something spoken about it I think
actually the Airbnb host had told me that his girlfriend is actually from
Moldova so I think I guessed then I spoke in Russian so we're chatting in Russian
and everything's coming in to the apartment
taxi driver was super intimidated by this is like what are you guys up to
some random Western Europeans are all mumbling in Russian on the phone so
it's kind of interesting the reaction that Russian can happen a country like
Romania it's actually something I use once or twice when I was in a little bit
precarious situations with taxi drivers again this before the apps when I would take
one outside a club for example and he asked me where I was from and I didn't
trust the guy and I didn't want to say I was Western European so I said I was
Russian he said I don't believe you and I spoke in Russian and then he kind of
seemed convinced and a little bit more wary of me and then I noticed we weren't
even going to right direction so God only knows what was going to happen to me there
and then I got him to turn around and then yeah he was pretty aggressive but
once I got that club fine that's another story
that's one of the advantages of speaking Russian in Romania apparently people are
a little bit more intimidated by you we we go there we have a great rapport with the
Airbnb hosts fantastic really really cool and actually the great thing about
it is that we actually became pretty good friends afterwards and every time I
went to Bucharest afterwards I would always call him and he would set me up
with an Airbnb so actually we bonded over this issue of a large part about
language because I was able to speak in Russian as well as some some Romanian at
the time so I brought my friend out in Bucharest the first night we ended up
some Moldova bar it wasn't very eventful but the second night I brought him to my
what was my favorite club in all of Europe during the week Gaia on a
Thursday night it just love this is why I think this story might be interesting
for you if you're a traveler so the reason why I I liked the club number one
is that it a policy of not letting tourists in so first things that was
more about kind for the beautiful and the cool on a Thursday
night of Bucharest now that didn't mean that they wouldn't let you in as a
foreigner but if they thought you were tourist I'd seen it they were not
letting you in so the key there was of course just because I could speak in Romanian at
the door first of all be dressed pretty well right first of all second was
speaking Romanian even if you only say good evening in Romanian or you just say
hi or something you know you greet people that's gonna be enough like if
you just say 'buna seara' or if you say 'salut' or something when you get to the
door that's gonna make a big difference now of course I did have to chat a little
bit in Romanian always and sometimes it was a little bit tricky but I always got
in because of that because I've been at least being able to say a few words in
Romanian that's a first good tip for you traveling and I would encourage you to
learn more than just a few words but even that makes a big difference already
because it separates you for 90% of the tourists that they don't this particular
club did not want coming in so the client the kind of clientele it had was
usually successful young professionals I would say good-looking well dressed
students and also will see TV presenters models used to hang out there a lot a
lot of people from the fashion industry so you can see a lot just a lot of
beautiful people there both girls and guys actually have to say by Romanian
standards the guys actually work pretty well turned out as well so that's why
you need to be well dressed to get into this into this club in general at least
look pretty fucking cool so that's the kind environment first of all so that's
got it I'm gonna have my target demographic there which are
beautiful women of course and that's not to give you the contrast in most
Romanian clubs I don't like it at all it's not very open as an atmosphere there
are not actually that many beautiful women there to be honest compared to
further east countries like Ukraine, Belarus or Russia at all
but there are of course still plenty of beautiful girls in Romania and this
club used to attract so many of them and one other thing that is really key to
the club that made it if you're a solo traveling particularly even just a group
of guys a small group is the fact that it had a square bar in the center now
this is essential because if you have a square bar it gives you a place just like
hang out chill have a drink chat to your buddy maybe get to know someone or
open the person beside you it's all very easy plus you have line of sight all
around the club from the bar right so of course they had tables along the sides
of the club and that was also if you wanted I did took it once or twice I
think on my forays to Romania that was also a great great spot to to sit as well
but it wasn't essential to have a table there so for the traveller who shows up on Thursday
night first of all most European cities it's not really the best night to go out
necessarily so this is another cool thing about it the fact that he yeah I
mean Thursday night now and I used to even sometimes schedule just to be in
Bucharest I mean I took a flight once from this kind of make sound really
really eccentric but I was in Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan and I just taken a flight
there because I always wanted to go to Central Asia I didn't have a great time
in Bishkek I'll be honest I never went back again but I could see there was
actually a flight back to Bucharest for the Thursday night I was like I'm on that
flight because it was via Istanbul I really want to go out in Gaia and
especially after my experience in Bishkek and it's what kind of woeful
night life definitely it was something that I appreciated so we go to Gaia
that's the other thing there's a square bar after it's really cool it's obviously
packed by about one o'clock and it's a very open atmosphere people are very
close to each other there's a square bar it's very easy to talk to people and
there's a high concentration of pretty girls what more do you want
so me my buddy went there this is why I'll just give it as the first first
story in the series of from this trip and we anyways it happened and you know
we partied there all night at the certain point we come back to the apartment with
a local girl I remember being there and she was in the apartment with us I was a
little bit drunk I'll be honest the girl was also a little bit screwed up and we
were all there I don't know talking in the sitting room by
the way my friend doesn't drink any alcohol which is always good for telling me
exactly what happened the morning after as an Irishman I do
have a propensity to drink a lot of alcohol at times which of course makes
me fit in pretty well with this region I think in Eastern Europe so at a certain
point my this girl whatever there was a music you mom was watching some MTV some
music and she didn't like the song so what did she do she says turn the
fucking music off right I don't like that song in a really aggressive manner
and I remember my buddy who had been there and he's like no we like the song
we're gonna listen to the song point she picked up a vase right which had some not
sure if it had flowers in it that's something in it maybe something that
wasn't really flowers just maybe I know what you call that it's like potpourri
or something I don't know anyways that's something in it and she threw like
chucked the vase at the TV screen towards it she didn't I'm not sure if
she really meant to hit the TV but it just flew past television and landed
beside it with everything all over the place of course was inside he didn't
actually break the vase fortunately. It was a pretty strong one at that stage I
thought my friend was gonna fucking punch this girl, to be honest. I mean she's
throwing vases around and I was like obviously a little bit in my drunken stupor
because dude I have this one taken care of ... so I take
the girl take her to my room obviously have sex with her and then the
next morning we wake up and I remember her being very like suddenly very
apologetic about her behavior the night before and she started to smoke some
some pot to calm herself down so the whole apartment fucking stank of marijuana
the next morning whatever she was smoking
whichever variant of soft drug and when she come down we said hey it's cool you
didn't break anything it's gonna crap happens and yeah I think it's time to
leave it cool with us with me at least my friend was still sleeping
and then put her in a taxi outside come back in the apartments area and the
places stinks of pot like absolutely sticks and of course
the Airbnb host is coming in an hour so I'm like okay how
are we gonna clean this place up and make it decent because I had such a
great rapport with that the host I was like well I was hoping to see these
people again once come back and see you know all this crap all over the
floor after this girl the place stinking probably not gonna be very very welcome
or not gonna get a good review so my buddy comes up with the idea lightning
matches so apparently the smell the matches kind of neutralized so I have no
idea he doesn't smoke anything any sort of soft drugs or anything like that
anyway so I don't know how he knew this previous experience as I learned
something there another tip for you guys and yeah we clean up the place
apparently this they ordered ... the host came they were super happy we chatted for
an hour and yeah that was it he became very very close friends with me Filip
and that was kind of the beginning of a beautiful friendship
and we're also his girlfriend and now wife and it all happened because of yeah
having an open mind learning languages and yeah people gonna give you the
benefit of the doubt and afters people are willing to overlook certain things
like this apartment stinks of doobie so why am I telling you this?
I just wanted to get you a little bit of a taste was like to travel in the east
of Europe now at the time time was a lot less touristic than it is today I don't
think you would have the same experience if you were to go there today ... привет
if you were to go back to Romania today they'll be it's quite different it's
kind of been discovered especially Bucharest as the city it's not kind of a
hidden gem of Europe anymore there's a lot of tourism because obviously a lot
of Romanians left or a lot of flights and people meet Romanians abroad actually
in spite of the stereotypes Romanians are actually not that bad so then they
come they take those cheap flights and they come and check out the city and the
night life has taken a downturn in the meantime unfortunately because a lot of
there was a huge fire a huge tragedy in the centre of Bucharest and unfortunately a
lot of young people died I think it was like I can remember the number I'm not
going to misquote it was like more than 20 for sure and this led to them being
more strict about fire safety hazards now you don't have to worry about that
at least they closed all the clubs made them at least raise the standards of the fire
safety also Bucharest is on a fault line for earthquakes which is also a
little bit of a problem if you were in a building of course and they were became
more strict about buildings being earthquake proof so they closed a lot of
the great places in the city center I did bring my friend to my favorite
restaurants and bars and at the time in Bucharest everything has gonna change but
at that moment it was like five years ago in Bucharest was kind of undiscovered it
didn't have so much tourism now if you were to go on YouTube look up vlogs you
see a lot of vloggers have been there a lot of backpackers have gone there it's
kind of on that route now at the time it wasn't and that's kind of how our first
stop on this world wind trip afterwards I have the like this trip was a trip that
actually almost killed me by the end and you're gonna see that in the next
episodes it was something very extreme I was not a vlogger at the time that's why
I have to I think it's also good for me to to share you the experience at least
belatedly now because really if I've been a vlogger then it would have been
such an amazing trip to have documented I'm not sure I could do it again physically
you're gonna find out in the next few episodes of the podcast when I tell you
what happened so what should you take out of having listened because you've
gotten to the end of this particular part of the trip the Romanian part we
then left for Chisinau, the capital of Moldova by plane
that afternoon it was would have been the Friday afternoon where things going
even crazy well they got a lot crazier I had them what happened with this girl
and vase throwing and all this kind of stuff look like every city has kind of
cool places right and you have to do your research now I think today there's
more and more information like you looking Instagram that's one of my tips
always it's kind of just look at the scene Instagram and a Friday nights you
where though I mean if if you're looking for pretty girls just look
people are posting where they are in the cool places where they're hanging out if
there's lots of pretty girls sony posting in one place that's a very good
indication that places it's the place to hang out in you know wandering around the city
center a touristic center like the Centru Vechi of Bucharest you're not
gonna find anything good like this just a reality you have to do your research I
found out a bit about Gaia on a Thursday night ... Gaia, it does still exist by the way still
it has a Thursday night it's not in the same location it's not the same vibe in
my personal opinion as it was in those days so sorry you'll have to find
somewhere else there are other places that people go to
of course to socialize today but do your research that's the key right
and I actually made local friends on a previous trip to Romania and one of them
she told me hey this is the place to hang out and that's how he discovered it
then when I was there I actually met ... it was wither there or another club
made some other remaining friends some guys and they also told me about
going there as well so then I had a kind of group the people to hang around
with on my trip so definitely do your research and look for the places that
are not going to be so obvious I mean the cool people in any city don't go to the
most obvious place that's why it's exclusive right dress appropriately and
look for places where it's gonna be easier to open have communication with
people with local people there so that's why it's central bar boom
love clubs with a central bar unless you're there with a group of friends
you've already got a table that is the best kind of Club for you to look for if
you're traveling in particularly do you want to meet meet people meet pretty
girls in particular then that's what I would do and I'm not really sure about
the vase throwing thing vase incident at the end but anyways it was kind of
comical we did meet the girl again
several years later in them yeah she she apologized for you yeah she apologized
for it anyways so that was okay this is being a part one of this series of
stories from the first trip I took with my sensei in Eastern Europe and the next
one is going to about Chisinay in Moldova where something really really
crazy actually happened I did say this trip almost killed
kill me anyways I think it almost killed both of us by the end so if you've enjoyed
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see you in part two of this series coming up because it's just sunset here
on the port in Odessa so fading light not gonna able to record anymore
stories this evening gonna come back tomorrow
got to out and enjoy a fantastic Indian summer evening in Odessa Mama that's why
I wear this t-shirt so often on the channel when I'm here you know in Odessa so
with that said it's до свидания! Goodbye! See you in the next one! Peace!
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