🇷🇺 People often ask how I get around Russia, well often I hitchhike from town to town. Sometimes it goes well, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes I discover a weird place I'd rather not be in...

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Stranded In Russia's Creepiest Village

🇷🇺 It's no secret that I have a somewhat over excited reaction every time I see something remotely Soviet, so imagine what I thought when I saw a Soviet barber shop in Makhachkala's old bus station...Yes I had a Soviet beard trim. Oh and where the bloody hell is Kalmykia?!

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Visiting A Soviet Barber Shop!

🇷🇺 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...

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Hanging With The Elders Of Dagestan

🇷🇺 'Don't go to Chechnya!' the UK government website says. For sure you will be kidnapped and killed. Well, it turns out that they don't know what they are talking about. All you will find here is beautiful landscapes, friendly people and great shashlik. Oh, and very persuasive taxi drivers! Big thanks to Ruslan for the tour. Muzhik! 👍🏻

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Chechnya Isn't What You'd Expect!

🇷🇺 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!

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Would You Ride The Night Train To Chechnya?

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🇧🇴  It was my last day in Bolivia and there was one thing that had been playing on my mind...what exactly was in the village beyond the church that I had been warned to stay away from? There was only one way to find out. Operative Babushka Boy would have to investigate.

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Escape From The Bolivian Village: A Babushka Boy Adventure

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🇧🇴 After being kicked out of the Bolivian village a few days before I decided I had to return and try to visit a village home again, but this time I had switched things up that would help me...A tweed jacket and briefcase. What could go wrong.

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Entering A Bolivian Village...With A Briefcase

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🇧🇴 Whilst in Boliva I thought it would be fun to go and check out a village somewhere and meet some locals. I randomly chose a place on the map called Patamanta and naively headed off expecting to make friends and be invited into people's homes just like I had done in the former Soviet Union...Well Bolivia isn't Belarus...

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I Got Kicked Out Of A Bolivian Village!

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🇧🇴 When I order a taxi I don't want much. I don't need a fancy car or even decent music. What I do expect however is that the driver will at least know where he is going! And then not overcharge me at the end of the ride. Unfortunately I met this guy and, well see for yourself...

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Avoid This Bolivian Taxi Driver!

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🇧🇴 Not every endeavour can be a work of art. David Bowie wrote the song Heroes but also The Laughing Gnome...Take this upload for example. Literally nothing interesting happens in it, just me being miserable in the rain and I'm even somewhat ashamed to upload it,  but it's 3am in Bolivia and I can't sleep due to the jet lag. Even the shitty Adam Sandler movie I just watched on Netflix has not helped me fall sleep. So I thought why not stick something up and read some comments. Maybe someone will love it and think it's the greatest video ever made on youtube or maybe you have jet lag too and want to kill 10 minutes of your time instead of just lying there staring at the ceiling all night wondering if you will ever nod off and what the meaning of life is. Or maybe you are on the toilet having your morning pooh before going to work and would like to see a bald man randomly buy a bowler hat in South America to pass the time. I don't which one of those is you know but there you go. Have a great day/night/pooh everyone. Oh and in case you want to know, the f*king hat cost me $65!!! Unbelievable.

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A Short Film About Buying A Bolivian Hat ( Not Clickbait! )

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🇧🇴 South America has a reputation for danger and violence. And so whilst on my short stay in Bolivia I decided to take a cable car up to El Alto which is a part of La Paz known by locals as a place for theft and violence. Would I survive with  my camera? Watch and find out...

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Solo In Bolivia's Most Dangerous Hood

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🇧🇴The bus driver told me I could get off and walk to the airport. The only problem was it meant walking along a busy highway for miles. Was it even legal?? I don't know. Oh and then I flew to a country where I could not breathe. What a journey.

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Stranded On A Russian Highway!

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🇧🇾 Three days ago I travelled to Belarus to drive back into the radiation zone there and deliver supplies to some of the last remainers on that contaminated piece of land. I also bumped into an old friend you may recognise...

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Delivering Vodka In The Chernobyl Zone 🇧🇾

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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!

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I Found A Soviet Goblin! ( Jump Scare Warning! )

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🇷🇺 Not long ago the town of Karabash was declared Russia's most toxic town due got the heavy pollutants that a mining plant was pumping into the air over the region. 

And so with my friend Roman from the popular YouTube channel NFKRZ we decided to visit the town and see for ourselves just how life was progressing there. 

Join us on the road to Karabash...

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KARABASH...Russia's Toxic Town

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🇷🇺 I recently met the popular Russian YouTuber NFKRZ for a tour of his hometown, Chelyabinsk which is a city that doesn't have the best reputation in Russia to say the least. So could he change my opinion about his Asian city or was everyone who told me not to come here right? Let's find out...

Here is his channel link so please check him out for Russian content  in English https://www.youtube.com/user/MultiNfz

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🇷🇺 Would You Live Here?! ( ft. NFKRZ )

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🇷🇺Sometimes Russia throws up some crazy experiences and yesterday was such a day when I discovered an ancient church located somewhere on the edge of Europe. The building was beautiful but the inside was just weird... Oh and I had to escape from a Russian village.

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What Did I just Step On Inside This Church?!

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🇷🇺 What do you think of when someone says the word 'Europe'? Maybe Paris or Milan? Maybe the beaches of Spain or the mountains of Switzerland. Well there is another Europe that stretches out along the eastern border of the great continent. There you will find cities and towns the names of which we were not taught in the West but yet they are as much Europe as Manchester or Munich is. I took a trip to towns named after men with blood on their hands to see for myself...

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Is This Really Europe?!

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🇷🇺 What do you know about the republic of Mari El deep in Russia on Europe's eastern border? Probably not too much right. What about their language? Well you're not alone and so I went out to rectify that and on the journey there found some weird things...like Barbara Streisand.

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You Won't Believe This Russian Road!

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🇷🇺 Greetings from the republic of Chuvashia in deepest Russia where I went on a hunt for the little known European language of Chuvash. And as usual on the way I met some real characters. Get ready to meet Yuri Alexandrovich, Chuvashia's most dapper gentlemen.

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Russian Villager Shocked By His Selfie!

🇷🇺 Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet Soviet...

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I Scared A Russian Babushka...

🇷🇺 Whist travelling the backwaters of Russia I heard about the Mordvoian people who speak a language called Moksha. And so began my journey to a village deep in Europe in search of someone who could teach me a few words.

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Village Babushka Dances For Englishman In Russia

🇷🇺 You can take trains from Moscow to all kinds of romantic sounding places; St Petersburg, Vladivostok, Beijing...Well I didn't do that, instead I chose to go to Saransk the capitol of the backwater republic of Mordovia. Yeah I have no idea why I did it either.

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Would You Ride This Russian Train?

Unfortunately I picked up a pretty bad chest infection and have not been able to film anything. I will go home to recover for a few weeks but before I do I have to ask...would you do this?

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