Dobri den from Prague, the world's greatest city where the beer is cheap but the apartments aren't. I came here to recover from my recent illness and have not been filming but when a friend invited me to play football-golf I thought I would film the experience. I didn't know it would be so humiliating. Also get ready to meet a ginger celebrity you may remember...

Check out my blog for behind the scenes photos and stories. Here: lostgopnik.com  
Fidel the cat is on Insta @furry_bandito

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Forced To Drink From Shoe By Prague Bully 🇨🇿

🇧🇾 Whilst wandering through a remote forest in Belarus and crossing knee deep swamps I stumbled upon an abandoned cottage where the inhabitants had seemingly left in a hurry leaving their belongings behind. Well I did what anyone would do; opened a bottle of Soviet champagne and took a look through the things I had found.

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Solo Through The Chernobyl Swamp

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🇧🇾 Allow me to share with you some of Belarus' history; Khatin and the story of the village the invaders wiped off the map, Studenka where Napoleon's Grande Armee met a watery end and the story of the European Stork who call Belarus home every summer. Oh and of course we found time for a quick look at a small town's 'wall of hotties'. This is part 1 of a two part journey.

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The Village That Disappeared 🇧🇾

🇧🇾 'Would I like to go and visit an abandoned Soviet pioneer camp?' my friend Niall asked me. Well what a daft question. Of course I would! And so we set off across no lockdown Minsk in search of a bus out of town and ended up completely lost. But that's a good thing because it meant we met some random Belarusians on the streets of the capitol including a certain famous actor...

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Lost In No-Lockdown Minsk 🇧🇾

🇧🇾 There are six towns in Belarus which have their own breweries. They are Brest, Lida, Vitebsk, Rechitsa, Bobruisk and Minsk. And so I decided to go on a grand tour and try them all...in the cities where they are brewed. Join me on the no lockdown grand Belarus beer hunt.

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I Tried Every Beer In Belarus...It Took Three Days

The whole world is taking precautions, keeping people safely inside, practicing social distancing, right? Well no...In Belarus they do things differently. Bars and restaurants are open, few wear face masks outside and today they had a big celebration with crowds. So I went to take a look...Join me in the country that does things its own way.

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The Country Where They Didn't Lockdown!

🇦🇲With my flight out of Armenia cancelled and finding myself with an unexpected extra few hours left in the city of Yerevan I jumped in a taxi and headed to the centre to look at some sights and try some local wine and food...I kind of wish I skipped the food part!

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Would You Try This Armenian Food?! 🇦🇲

🇦🇲 It's Soviet adventurising time again and we are in a new republic for this episode: the ancient mountainous land of Armenia where I heard some stories from the past and up in the mountains discovered the holy grail for Soviet explorers...Join me on the journey.

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Look What I Found In Armenia! 🇦🇲

The western world is in panic at the invisible enemy out there, holidays are being cancelled and people are being forced to stay home in self quarantine. And so I thought it would be the perfect time to head off on holiday to the Caucasus and board the midnight train to Georgia. And then I realised that it's not just the west that is worried about the big Corona...Oh and I discovered an abandoned military base too. Random vlog time.

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Would You Ride The COVID Express?

🇨🇺 Whilst travelling through Cuba we saw a malnourished kitten walk under a speeding truck. Somehow it survived and so we adopted the kitten and named him Fidel. For the next two weeks we travelled together across the country with the kitten and despite the food shortages in shops where even milk was hard to find, we nursed him back to strength. But then the holiday was over and we had to fly home to Europe. But what about our little cat who had been our constant companion? Leave him alone on the streets again? Well we did the only thing we could do, we headed to the airport for our flight home and hoped our cunning plan would work...Join us in the greatest action adventure since Papillon.
Fidel now has his own Instagram page so you can follow his adventures @furry_bandito and Alina has started a little merchandise shop to raise money for Fidel's veterinary fees: https://teespring.com/stores/la-chica-de-fidelcat

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Smuggling A Street-Cat out of Cuba 🇨🇺

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🇨🇺 Cuba; land of cigars and rum and random nutters who throw your beer on the floor. Join me as I show you the behind the scenes from our trip through this perplexing, frustrating but friendly and fascinating country.

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This Man Threw My Beer Away! 🇨🇺

🇨🇺 Most of us have access to the basic essentials in life. We take being able to use an ATM for granted, that the trains won't run out of petrol and be cancelled or that milk will be available in a shop when you visit. But the people of Cuba are not so lucky. They live under a different system and to be honest, it's not working out well for them...So tell me, could you handle live under that system?

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Could You Live In This Country? 🇨🇺

🇨🇺 Do you hate the morning commute to work? Well I doubt you have it as bad as Cubans we joined on their morning commute. An hour standing in what is basically a cattle truck that rattles over broken roads that even locals struggle with. Bring your sick bag!

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You Won't Believe This Cuban Bus! 🇨🇺

🇨🇺 What do you think of when you hear the name Cuba? Well for me it brought up romantic notions of revolutionaries, rum and steamy tropical nights. But what was life like on the island for the common man living in modern day Cuba? Well myself and Alinchik flew there to find out.
Join us on a small town Cuban adventure that nobody else has shown you...Viva the revolution!

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The Cuba They Don't Want You To See 🇨🇺

🇺🇦 If you would like to visit Chernobyl and explore Pripyat then please visit SoloEast travel at https://www.tourkiev.com These guys are the best at what they do and will take you where others won't 👍🏻

🇺🇦 Not far from the Chernobyl reactor is the town of Pripyat which housed the plant's workers and was abandoned due to high levels of radiation not long after the disaster. I went there on a miserable winter day to see what traces of the past remained...

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Inside Chernobyl's Abandoned Ghost Town | Pripyat

🇲🇷 As a vlogger you are always a little nervous about filming in public. Occasionally people ask you politely not to photograph them, occasionally they throw vegetables at you, but nowhere is quite like the capital of Mauritania where filming yourself gets the locals screaming at you! What a bunch of Mauritanian madlads! Fortunately the people got a lot more chill on the road to Nouadhibou.

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Don't Film In This African Country! 🇲🇷

🇲🇷 In Mauritania there is a train journey that is legendary for being so brutal on the body and spirit that few can make it to the end of the line. Open box cars full of iron ore dust, freezing nights and scorching desert days...I decided to jump on board an open boxcar and see just how brutal it was...

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Would You Ride Africa's Worst Train? | 18 Hours In A Freight Truck

🇺🇦 After all of my trips to the Belarus side of the disaster it was finally time to travel to the source of the tragedy itself, Pripyat and the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Whilst there my guide Igor treated me to the world's greatest invention, 'Vodka cakes'. Oh and we also heard some stories from the re-settlers.

I used a tour company for my trip called Solo East. This is their website. I can highly recommend them. https://www.tourkiev.com

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Searching For The Chernobyl Resettlers

🇧🇾 I had been searching the radiated forests of the Belarus Chernobyl zone for my friend Kolya but with no luck. Then I drove to the nearest village where there was one last. inhabited house. I knocked on the door and waited....

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Look Who I Found In The Chernobyl Zone!

🇧🇾 A couple of months ago I went into the Belarus Chernobyl radiation zone to visit a man who lived alone there called Kolya and gave him some money I had raised. I was now going back to check up on him. The only thing I had not considered however was this: What if he wasn't home?

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Alone In The Chernobyl Forest 🇧🇾

🇦🇿 Whilst exploring an old Soviet village in Azerbaijan I was stopped by a polite old gentleman who asked for my documents. Who was he? Why did he want them? Who did he work for? Did I do the right thing? Who knows but I think I just me the Azerbaijan version of the KGB.

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KGB Encounters In Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

🇦🇿 The truth is I did not know anything about Azerbaijan before I arrived except that it was rich with oil money and had an incredibly modern capital city called Baku. But I wanted to see beyond that and get to know the country beyond the glitz a little bit better. And so I hired a car, bought a map and set off in search of Ganja. Join me!

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Searching For Ganja In Azerbaijan 🇦🇿

🇷🇺 With the Russian winter slowly moving in I bought a ticket on the international train heading across Russia's southern border into the country of Azerbaijan and it's surprisingly modern capital of Baku. Join me as we skirt the banks of the Caspain Sea and head into Asia.

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Would You Cross This Russian Border By Train? 🇷🇺

🇷🇺 Just over 400 years ago a tribe left their homeland in western Mongolia and made their way to Europe. They settled on the windy steppe lands of southern Russia and continued their way of life. I went in search of them and discovered a Buddhist republic living in the heart of Europe. Oh and it is VERY windy there.

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