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[Romanian] Welcome to Romania! [English] so I just arrived in Bucharest. It's national day.

it's gonna be lots of flags everywhere just got my uber. Gonna head into the center.

Hey hey YouTube! What's up? So today I'm in Bucharest I've been here for the last

few days and unfortunately it's raining all the time so I haven't had a chance to

really take a good walk around the city centre but I'm gonna do that right now

so come with me and you're gonna get a view of the historic center of Romania's

capital Bucharest. Let's go!

So Bucharest has a population of around 2 million people. Romania is situated on

the Black Sea, has coastline, has mountains, Transylvania ... go check out my video about

beautiful Transylvania! Really one of my favorite regions and then it also

borders countries like Serbia, Bulgaria, Ukraine of course and Moldova, Republic

of Moldova to the east.

This city was actually known as the Micul Paris and that means 'little Paris' such

was the stunning architecture that it had up until basically after ... the

second world war after the Second World War in that period it had a lot of French

influence the city and you can still see that today here in the historic center.

We're here in the 'Centru Vechi' as it's called and this is a really cute area.

It's kind of the historic area of Bucharest in the last few years unfortunately it has

started to have a lot of fast-food kind of places fast-food restaurants strip

clubs and a lot of bars that kind of lower the kind of quality I think a little bit

but it's still a sweet area to walk around during the day. So let's go and

take a walk around the historic center of Bucharest!

Cărturești is a really beautiful book shop here in Bucharest. You can see the

facade behind me so if you have a few minutes to spare and you're walking around

the old town and I recommend you go in and check it out from the interior. It's

very interesting. Definitely a very special bookshop even if you don't like

to read books just go in and admire the architecture.

So remember I told you that Bucharest used to be known as Micul

Paris? That's a 'little Paris'. Well this used to be a really beautiful historic

area to the city as well. Romania had a dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu

basically from after the Second World War until 1989 when he was deposed

in a bloody revolution here. He wanted to build an extravagant palace

and boulevard for himself that would mimic the Champs-Elysées in Paris

because he had travelled a bit and he was quite impressed by the Champs-Elysées

so this here which is Boulevard Unirii is Bucharest's version of the

Champs-Elysées and behind us we have the Palace of the Parliament. It's actually

the second biggest administrative building in the world after the Pentagon

in Washington DC or just outside of Washington DC so quite impressive plans.

The building is massive. This was built in honor of Ceaușescu's ego. He

even had a series of tunnels underneath, even to get all the way to the

airport outside the city and it's actually got several storeys below

ground but it's just a phenomenal building made out of all materials

everything was taken from here in Romania and he destroyed a huge

beautiful area of the city center in order to do so but it is an impressive

building in itself. So let's go and take a look at the Palace of the Parliament here in Bucharest!

So behind me there is the iconic Caru' cu Bere which means the 'cart with beer'.

They've got a little bit of renovation going on on the facade unfortunately.

Here you're gonna get it Romanian specialties like sărmale or ciorbă

which is the soup. Sărmale are like these cabbage filled with normally some meat

or some vegetables. Really tasty kind of homemade style food very

family-orientated. It feels like you're at a Romanian family dinner there so

let's go inside and have some of those does some of that delicious

Romanian traditional cuisine.

[Romanian] - Would you like some bread? - Bread? Yes.

- White or brown? - Brown. - Oh, there's no brown bread. - Really?Ok, ok ...

[English] So one question I get from people whoo have never been to this region in from

Western Europe, in particular, from North America, is it safe in Romania? And I

would say as a traveler here it's no more dangerous no more safer than maybe

the average in Europe. There are a couple of scams some ... once someone tried to

persuade me they were a lost tourist and spoke to me in English and then was

pretty shocked when I replied in Romanian and tried to help them ... A lot of

the press especially in the United Kingdom describes Romanians as thieves or

scammers and yeah of course you have people who are like that but here in

Bucharest itself, I would not say that it's any more dangerous for the

traveller. Don't be afraid to come here and try it out!

So I'm sitting in the back of an uber here and on my way out to the thermal

baths in Bucharest just near the airport and this is what's so great about

applications and services like Uber. You're able to just order it on your phone, it

arrives, it's honest also then for drivers it's a better setup for honest

drivers at least because they can also track the clients, the customers they

have so they're also safer. It's a win-win for everybody and this is

definitely the death knell for dishonest taxi drivers because once everybody

starts to use applications, the incentive or the possibility to escape if you're

dishonest is just gonna disappear completely. So definitely I encourage you

to download apps, doesn't have to be Uber, it can also be a local taxi app but

doing it this way is just so much more safer and cheaper. Now I'm gonna go enjoy

the baths, relax a little bit before my flight.

All relaxed! That's it, me done here in Bucharest. If you like this video give it a big thumbs up!

[Romanian] - Excuse, you cannot film here for security reasons!

- Ok, not because of the ... bye, bye!

A still water, please.

- Contact. - Yes, contact. Thanks. - You're welcome!

[English] Very stringent security, wouldn't let me finish up so hit that like button if you

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see you in the next video! [Romanian] Goodbye from Bucharest!