You're actually one of the few tourists that actually says Vlad the Impaler was more of a local hero than a dark lord or vampire. Thank you for that! That is so true.
I wouldn't say "limited metro" - because it is actually quite big. Almost double than Poland, Hungary, etc. My opinion that is the best mode of transport in Bucharest.
Regarding the train: No need to go the station before. The state railways, the CFR and the companies smaller regional lines have all well working websites and apps.
I have been living in Cluj for the last 5 months, for Romanian standard its pretty expensive, dont go if you are on a tight budget, prices in cafes and restaurants are like in the west EU, which is crazy.
E bine să studiezi cultura unei țări, înainte de a o vizita. Să comentezi o tară după ce ai vizitato e o mare diferență "my friend,,. Școala pentru mulți alți a lipsit din educația lor. 😢😢😢
Russian is not close to Romanian at all lol, Romanian is a Romance language and it's closer to Latin than the Italian language. And the country Russia is not close to Romania, Germany is closer to Romania than Russia.
Romanian language is light years away (even if we have some words borrowed and we use) from the Russian language and not "relatively close" as you mentioned....Romanian is a Latin language (in fact some studies reveals that is the opposite) and Russian is slavic.
You did the worst faux pas. Rusian is not at all close to romanian. Latin is-70 procent. We have slavonic (and i wil belive that are thracian words adopted in slavic countries via Bulgarians and the orthodox church, not viceversa. When we were here, rusia was a swap with barbarian tribes).
@@ChrisKermis nu mai forța cu limba rusă. Eu am 55 de ani. Am făcut limba rusă la școală. Nici un elev din școală nj știa limba rusă. Profesorul ne trecea anul școlar pt faptul că eram buni la altă materii. Așa se întâmplă în toată România. În orașul meu nu îmi aduc aminte dacă erau 3 sau 4 vorbitori de limbă rusă. Și aceia erau bătrâni care făcuse WW2 în Rusia. Bunicul meu a învățat mai repede germană în 4 ani de război în Rusia decât limba rusă. Tu când te duci la școală să înveți ceva despre tara mea...???
Just a little nitpick at the money talk about card usage, you made it sound like we barely started implementing paying with cards or contactless. That's not the case, can be on the countryside but you'd be hard pressed to find a city where you can't pay 99% of things via card. I was more shocked to go in bigger european countries and they don't have a system for you to pay a bus fair with your card, you either have to SMS or pay for a physical ticket or use an app to do it depending on the place.
Everything you say about Tepes is a bedtime story. He was a just leader. If he had been like that in our times, all things would have gone very well and the prisons empty. People only know out of fear.
Some handy tips there but here is one not covered. It's almost embarrassing asking this, but you know, as one gets older body parts tend to play up! So here is the question. Are Toilets generally clean and well maintained in bars, restaurants and hotels? Also for a solo traveller how long is not too long and not too short to spend there. The rule of thumb for my personal travels is ten days.
No problem, I found that they were always clean and well maintained when I was there in bars, restaurants and tourist sites like museums. I stayed in an apartment but can't imagine them being bad in hotels. In terms of how long to stay, it depends on your itinerary. On my last trip I spent about 9 days in Sibiu and Brasov, then one week in Bucharest. This last time was one week in Cluj-Napoca. A week was more than I needed for Cluj, but I did have days where I just worked.
Generally speaking, toilets are clean, but don't always count on it. E.g. toilets in trains are more likely to be dirty than clean. Toilets in restaurants are maybe 9 out of 10 times clean, and in bars maybe only 7-8 times out of 10 clean. Big gas station toilets, if you choose to rent a car, are also usually clean, small gas stations are hit and miss. So if you'll be in Romania for a short time, you are unlikely to see more than 1-2 dirty toilets, more if you're unlucky, none if you're lucky.
@@ChrisKermisBorn and raised in Brașov, but left 30 yrs ago. I’m just curious…. back in the days, they used to have those “public restrooms” in different public areas, and parks (not talking about the hotels, restaurants etc), where there was always a lady at the entrance with a roll of toilet paper in hand, and for 0.25 bani at the time, she would hand you 2-3 sheets of toilet paper, and give you access to the restroom. Do they still have them? Asking for a friend 😋
they are everywhere, out on the streets. it is just that you need to wealk by night to meet them. and obviously you should not have eaten garlic recently as they will avoid you
Romanian has nothing to do with russian, correct ! It's a latin language poorly influenced by slavik. Overall the clip is good and romanians are not rroma, corect. Romanians are friendly yet in large cities beware of pickpokets as anywhere. Infractionality is, for god's sake, low even very low. A gorgeous country to explore !
Quite a few people have misinterpreted what I said there. My meaning was supposed to be that the countries are relatively close geographically, not in terms of language.
Nice explanation video when you go to Romania. But the food is also good,.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ph9hnkn0JqE.html .I like your video👌👍
Romanian is close to Russian? Come on Chris. I thought you'd know that Romanian is a Latin language that has nothing to do with Russian which is a slavic language.
Roma is an ethnic group coexisting amongst the majority of the Romanians. Romanians are not an ethnic group, they are the large majority. Other important ethnic groups are Hungarians, Germans, Ukrainians, etc.
You don't know the definition of ethnic group. You confuse it with the term "majority". No, the world population is conposed of ethnic groups. For example the ethnic Germans are the majority ethnic group of Germany. And Romanians of Romania.
romanians do not speak russian,maybe the older generations,+60 years old,because it was taught in schools,also,there are no similarities between the russian and the romanian languages,romanian being a latin language closer to italian,spanish,french and portuguese
@@gundabalf more than 70% of romanian language has a latin root,the so called 'strong slavic influence' only accounts for like between 15 and 20 % and is slavic not russian
@@adiherenowactually the slavic peoples came over the thracians borrowing a lot of words from them. În the romanian dictionary (Dex) bună the words from the religion area are considered to be în romanian from the slavic language but the slavic peoples became cristhians hundreds of years after the romanians. So it suppose that for a few hundreds 4:16 of years they were using others words or they changed all of them when the russians became christians. This îs what means the Kazars russians communist hegemony.
Thank you for this lovely video. I would also like to add to this: 1:40 also spanish and italian a lot, recently many teens learn japanese and korean as well. there's no need to avoid conversations from the communist past, usually there are old ppl (60+) who fancied those times, and young people who fancy democracy, but in general we all agree that the communist era was a pile of crap Regarding the cash thing, yes it is good to have some cash as in any country. Personally, I have payed with cash 3 times in the last ~5 years. We also don't expect you to tip, if you wanna do it please do it because the service was that good, don't just tip because it's "expected".
Good video. I agree with what you said in the end about the drivers here, they believe "they're F1 drivers". That is so unfortunately true. Most Romanians lack patience.
There are 2 IMPORTANT RULES 1. DON'T EVER talk about Dracula! Us, Romanians, are disappointed because you guys made up this story 2. THIS ONE IS IMPORTANT! DONT EVER CALL THAT POPULAR SONG "mai a hi" JUST CALL IT "dragostea din tei" JUST LEARN HOW TO SAY THAT YOU'LL GET GOSSIPED IF YOU SAY THAT
This part of the world - the entire ex-communist block - is inhabited by great people: hospitable, laid-back, sane (more or less...), open, etc. You'll have the best time here if you'll observe, respect and obey this one rule: DON'T be an a$$hole! That's it!
What you mean by "That's the way are things here " because it's raining one day or two and maybe next rainy day will be next year ?😁 Romania is not UK...
Accurate with the exception of russian language... Romanian is a Romance language. Maybe the confusion is coming from 'da' meaning yes, which is the same in both languages. Don't know about russian, but in romanian this word is coming from latin - ita transformed to ida and shortened as 'da'. I will let you search what ita means in latin.
That was simply bad wording on my part. What was meant is that Romania and Russia are relatively close geographically. The languages are completely different.
Is it okay to ask about the communism if it's from the perspective of someone not knowing anything about it and asking a local to explain from their point of view? Not specific questions that could be considered rude, just a general, "hey, could you tell me a little bit about the history here? I'd like to learn more."
You can talk about it, no issues there, but I wouldn’t recommend arguing with the locals about how great you think communism is because you read about it in a book or on the internet. There are some nostalgics but most people are vechemently anti communist.
@@ChrisKermis Bucharest - Monfalcone 983 km. Bucharest - Veselo Voznesenka 2002 km. If we admit Crimeea as russian, then Bucharest-Sevastopol 500 km. So ....
dude bucarest is the worst city of them all you wanna go oradea cluj timisoara brasov alba iulia this cities are epic and its surrouding areas even more so pretty much evry captial city is the worst in an eu country except maybe zürich und wien. why? well they noisy and smell like dead animals combined with other dufsts and smells
Great advice altogether ! One minor correction, the tap water it's fine by all health standards, in newer flat complexes that might house an AirBNB the plumbing it's new, but in older buildings that plumbing was probably rotten. I live in Cluj in a newly built apartment complex, I can trust the water that comes within the legal health norms (I tested it). But I also own a old 1980's commie flat in the city and that water it's only good for taking a shower as the central plumbing was never changed since the flat got built (old poor pensioner neighbours), I never used it for cooking, I had a kitchen reverse osmosis filter where the filter would be done in less than 3 months, because of all the rust and sediments. When in Romania my advice would be bottled water (all of them are fine), as almost it is spring water, you would rarely see treated tap water bottled.
By the way, in what concerns the weather, especially in Brasov, with 2 sunny months a year, I say ''Welcome to Engl...ummm...Brasov''...Haha, I know...Now: The more you know (to correct your statements a bit) : -Russian is as ''similar'' to Romanian as English is to French -Credit cards: if I shop online I can choose to pay online, or cash at my door or, if not, the delivery guy has a POS app on his phone and I can pay right then and there with my card if I feel uncomfortable displaying my card online (I've never seen this available in England, where I live) -Trains: Are you friggin kiddin me??? Been doing Milton Keynes to London every weekend, delays every time, on arrival too...but nice applogies though...feels like Romania allover again -Potholes...REALLY??? Can i show you Milton Keynes side streets? Any side streets... And this city is just 65 years old...I can only imagine older cities in the rest of England... -Lastly...petty theft, theres less in big cities of Romania and less violence (domestic or public) than in England Honestly, sometimes it feels like i traded down...I do love the weather though... Lotsa love from a Romanian from the picturesque green Milton Keynes!
