🇺🇦 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!

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Party In A Ukrainian Soviet Village!

Lunik 9 is an old communist era housing estate built on the outskirts of Kosice in the east of Slovakia. Now it is better known as being Europe’s largest gypsy slum. Everyone told us not to visit because it was dangerous and so I had to go and investigate to see if it was as dangerous as everybody told me or if it was something different. What I found surprised and shocked me. Welcome to the party at Lunik 9!

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Partying In Europe's Biggest Slum | Lunik IX

🇬🇪 For years Alina has suffered with sinus infections. And so when someone in Georgia suggested there was a local way to cure it she was ready to try. Join us on the search for what I called a witch doctor but what locals probably just call' the lady who lives down the road who helps people out sometimes' . Oh and you will also get a taste of a lengthy Georgian toast...

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Visiting The Witch Doctor

🇬🇪 Georgia sits on the far eastern edge of the Black Sea and so we decided to head to the semi abandoned ex Soviet tourist resort of Kobuleti to try our hand at a spot of fishing to catch our supper. Well, we weren't the best...but we did see a dolphin. Oooh!

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The Worst Fisherwoman On The Black Sea!

🇬🇪 I have travelled to many places in the former Soviet Union but none quite matched the eerie strangeness of this semi-derelict former Soviet spa resort called Tskaltubo. I felt like I was in an episode of the Twilight Zone.

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I Found Europe's Strangest Town!

🇬🇪 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.

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She Has Lived In This Hotel For 25 Years!

🇬🇪 We had travelled up through the hills on an old bus to reach the town go Chiatura which was famous for its Soviet cable cars, something I had always wanted to do. But when we got there we found out some bad news. So instead we went out for a wander around town to meet some locals.

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Slavic Girl Meets Georgian Man

🚕 In an attempt to try something different I wanted to do a one take, zero edit film. Just press record and see what would happen in those 10 mutes or so. And when I saw a friendly looking taxi driver leaning on his Lada Niva in the Georgian town of Chiatura I had an idea. I gave him 10 Lari and said let's go somewhere...well let's just say there isn't much to see in Chiatura...🇬🇪

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I Gave A Lada Taxi Driver $3 And Said Drive!

☭ Tskaltubo is an abandoned Soviet spa resort nestled up in the sub-tropical hills of Georgia. Off limits to everyone and patrolled by a security team it is not an easy place to gain access to. However I thought it was important to see such a place and imagine what it was that went on inside its lavishly decorated rooms.

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Caught Sneaking Into Stalin's Sanatorium!

🇬🇪 New country time and I chose the former Soviet republic of Georgia. Straggling the Caucasus and hugging the Black Sea, Georgia is an ancient land of wine, incredibly friendly people and abandoned Soviet buildings...Get ready!

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This Is Georgia...Get Ready!

🇷🇺 Want to visit all the former Soviet republics on a scooter and without leaving Moscow? Well I will show you how....Welcome to Stalin's Soviet theme park in the heart of Moscow, the incredibly beautiful VDNKh.

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Stalin's Soviet Theme Park!

🇷🇺 When travelling into the centre of Moscow by train early in the morning we did not see a ticket machine. It will be ok we thought, nobody will check our tickets...Wrong!

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Don't Do This In Russia!

☭ 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...

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Hidden Rooms In Moscow's Soviet Hotel

Travelling on Russian or Belarusian trains isn't like anywhere else. There are things to know and do. Here I'll show you on the Moscow to Grodno train...

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You Must Do THIS On Russian Trains!

🇲🇩 In this film containing three parts we explore a fist derelict village, then an abandoned Soviet palace in a remote village and finally Object 1180 which was a Soviet nuclear bunker built in the middle of nowhere.

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The Secret Soviet Nuclear Bunker 🇲🇩

🇧🇾 With only a day left until my time was up in Belarus, I had one final mission to complete. To head back into the radiation zone and find an old friend of ours. But before that I headed down an old radiated road and found something interesting on the wall of an abandoned house.

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Return To The Last House In The Chernobyl  Zone 🇧🇾

🇧🇾 If you want to be accepted as a man in the Slavic world you have to know how to cook a good shashlik and make a vodka toast. In this video I wanted to show you how to do that but then the party got crashed by someone who was more expert than me at drinking the sweet juice of the Gods. After that it all went to shit...

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Chernobyl Village BBQ Gone Wrong! 🇧🇾

🇧🇾 Whilst driving the back roads of the Belarus radiation zone an old man flagged me down and before I could say anything he had climbed into the car and started barking instructions. Soon we were heading down forest tracks towards the abandoned radiated village he called home. And what a home it was!

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The Last House In The Chernobyl Village

🇧🇾 Two months ago on a cold morning I headed into the radioactive Chernobyl forests north of the Belarusian town of Vetka. Now I was back to re-trace the people who had invited me into their home and generously shared their food with me. But this time I was bringing  shopping...

Original video is here:
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Return To The Belarus Chernobyl Zone...With Shopping Bags 🇧🇾

🇧🇾 I have always admired the Russian gopnik lifestyle, the beer, the fashion, the freedom and so when my Slavic friend Alina arrived in Minsk I asked her to teach me the ways of the gopnik.

Get ready for semechki, squatting and Adidas in a gopnik adventure!

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Could You Pass The Russian Gopnik Test?!

🇲🇩 On my last day in Moldova I had invitations to hang out with some different people but there was only one dude I wanted to spend my final hours in the country with and that was my favourite Moldovan of all, the legend of Kishinev himself. Introducing my friend 'Vova'. Get ready English girls!

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Punched By Moldova's Toughest BOMZH

🍷 Moldova is famous for it's wine but I wanted to try the real stuff, the home-brew that people make so I set off for the villages in search of some wine and drinking partners. I soon found both. Meet the epic babushkas of Moldova...Oh and they want to find me a Moldovan wife🇲🇩

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I Got Drunk With Babushkas 🍷

🚩Look at a map of Europe and you won't see this thin sliver of a country but it's there and so I went to explore. Get ready to visit the country that does not exist...Welcome to Transnistria or as locals call it Pridnestrovie.

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This Country Does Not Exist! | Transnistria

🇲🇩 Ever been to Ratus in Moldova? Me neither and so I decided to go and investigate the place so you don't have to. On the way I met some great Moldovan people and of course visited some abandoned Soviet buildings.

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