I Found A Soviet Goblin! ( Jump Scare Warning! )
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???????? Greetings from Kyrgyzstan where I decided to check out the famous lake Issyk-Kul. However I found more than I expected whilst searching an abandoned building in the town of Balykchy...Oh and warning: I say the word Soviet quite a lot too!
Ghost Shark Explained ???? #shorts
Party In A Ukrainian Soviet Village!
???????? Buying a Soviet bicycle, climbing an abandoned Soviet tower, finding a snake in the toilet, buying village home brew, drunken motorcycle journey and much more....Welcome to what might be Europe's most fun country...Welcome to Ukraine!
The Yogi Bear Graveyard ????
Hidden Rooms In Moscow's Soviet Hotel
☭ Situated on a side street in Moscow is the grand Hotel Soviet. A place unchanged since Stalin and some of the world's worst dictators stayed there. I checked in to explore its corridors and tried to imagine what the walls had seen over the years...
Solo In A Closed Soviet City ⛔️
⛔️ The Soviet Union had a policy of closing towns and cities of strategic and military importance off to the outside world. Even Soviet citizens couldn't enter Maylisuu due to its Uranium mines which were so important to the nuclear weapons program. Well I decided to head to deepest Kyrgyzstan to see what a formerly closed city looked like back then and see how life was progressing now. Join me as I become one of the few foreigners to ever enter Maylisuu.
Would You Drive This Mountain Road? ????????
????????I left Kyrgyzstan's worst hotel and headed towards the high peaks of the Ala-Too mountain range on my way towards the radiated town of Mailuu-Suu. And for once I had a friend with me. Join me on a Central Asian road trip...
Drinking Vodka In A Soviet Apartment...What Could Go Wrong?!
???????? Nothing better than getting some vodka in and chatting shit with your mates. Especially when it's in a Soviet apartment.
Avoid this Soviet Exclave!
If you look at a detailed map of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia you will see some strange shapes appearing in the very south of the country. These are the Soviet formed exclaves belonging to both Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. They were formed in the 1950s to answer the question of what to do with small regions which were ethnically diverse from the Kyrgyz Republic the people had found themselves living in due to Stalin's map making.
These exclaves had always intrigued me and I wondered what life was like in them. However there is zero information online about visiting them. However I am always up for a wasted journey so I hired a car in northern Kyrgyzstan and drove 1000kms to one of these exclaves to see if foreigners were allowed to enter or not.
Join me on a wild adventure towards the mysterious mountain exclave of Shohimardon...
She Has Lived In This Hotel For 25 Years!
???????? After the fall of the USSR ancient resentments and rivalries that had been kept in check for 70 years suddenly rose up leading to outbreaks of civil wars in various former Soviet Republics. Once such war broke out in the small sub-tropical region of Abkhazia on Georgia's north west coast. The Georgian people were forced to flee over the mountains leaving everything behind. I found some of those refugees still living in the empty shells of Soviet hotels some 25 years on and went to ask them about their story.
The World's Cheapest VIP Cruise! $12!
???????? Bangladesh is a country of mighty rivers and some dodgy river boats. I decided to jump on one and ride down the river in style in my own VIP cabin. Check out what you can get for the princely sum of $12! And on the way I made some friends. Join me on the world's cheapest VIP cruise!
Avoid This Man In Uzbekistan ????????
???????? Beautiful Uzbekistan...I had always dreamed of visiting its ancient Silk Road cities and exploring its magnificent history. I never expected to be doing in-between bouts of violent and explosive diarrhoea squirting out of my back passage also over the beautiful desert.
Would You Ride The Night Train To Chechnya?
???????? I decided to head south to the snowy peaks of the Caucasus that divide Europe from Asia. But before I could board my train to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, I had to work out what exactly a bloody 'put and platform' is. Fortunately a one legged local helped me...Yes I'm back in Russia!
Czech This Out!????????
???????? Welcome back to beautiful Prague, capitol of Czechia and now known as the city of Vietnamese alcohol shops and the region of Pankrac, known as the Venice of Central Europe. I have returned to look after a Cuban cat for a few weeks and whilst here was invited to chat to a very nice chap called Thomas about...well all kinds of things. Oh and he took me for a ride in a weird contraption you have possibly not seen before. I hadn't. Enjoy!
Looking For Love In A Ukrainian Village ( Isn't Easy ) ????????
???????? We all want to find that special someone, the person who will accept us and love us despite our madness and idiosyncrasies. We all hope that that person is out there somewhere waiting to be found. And so when myself and Johnny met a woman on a provincial bus journey who told us of the mythical village of Sofiivka, a place supposedly full of fair village maidens all searching for husbands, we decided that we would have to travel there and investigate for ourselves to see if we could find true love. Get ready for the feel good movie of the year...
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The Silk Road To Bukhara ????????
???????? In 1220 Genghis Khan rode with his army across the deserts of Central Asia towards the town of Bukhara. Many of the soldiers and residents refused to surrender and so Genghis did what he always did in such situations; he burnt the city and slaughtered thousands of its residents as punishment. However the famous tower he left standing on account of its beauty. Join me as we head across Uzbekistan in search of the famous place and meet some nice Ozbeks along the way.
Hanging With The Elders Of Dagestan
???????? One year ago I was stranded on a mountain top in Dagestan when one guy saved me. We kept in touch and he invited me to return to his mountain village in Dagestan called Gagatli. Everything was great, except his car...
The Road To Paldiski Lighthouse ????????
???????? Today is my last day in Estonia and instead of lazing around on the sofa eating Pringles and drinking Vanna Tallinn all day I decided to head out on the train to the town of Paldiski and climb it's old lighthouse. On the way I met Athur's mum, a man drinking beer in the snow at midday and found some abandoned Soviet stuff in the forest. Join me...
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Tondi...The Return ????????
???????? Since my first trip on the tram to Tondi I have become a pariah in Estonia. Newspaper articles have been written about me calling for my expulsion from the country for criticising the jewel of Estonia as the locals call it: Tondi. And so wanting to redeem myself in the eyes of the wonderful people of this country I decided to return to give it a second chance. Would I be able to show another side of Tondi or not? Watch and find out. Thanks to Kristian for giving me a little tour today. Nice meeting you ????