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    I Walked From Czechia to a Mystery Country (& Back)



    I’m finally leaving Czechia (the Czech Republic) after an amazing eleven days in this beautiful and fascinating country in central Europe. I woke up not knowing where I would end up going next. Watch the video to find out what happens and which country I arrive in by the end of the day.
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    Music during the video (in order):

    “Spin and Scratch” by JR Tundra
    &
    “Wheel Of Karma” by Audionautix, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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    &
    “Alike” by Jones Meadow

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    4. @Anyone3434 on

      Forget Usta Pravdy, you want to see an incredible rock carving made in the 1800's, visit Čertovy hlavy (Devil's Head) just a short drive from Prague. I visited it a few years back and I was creeped out and amazed all in one haha.

    7. @lukassuchanek7692 on

      You could've visited other interesting places in Southern Bohemia that are not similar to Pilsen or České Budějovice, like Hluboká castle, Třeboň, Jindřichův Hradec or Rožmberk nad Vltavou. Those are really nice places, but instead you were considering some carving in the woods… That's a shame. Also your visit to Kutná Hora was horribly botched, there's much more to see than just the church of bones… It's a beautiful medieval town that you didn't even reach, cause the bone church is located in the suburbs.

    8. @ageoflove1980 on

      White asparagus are a very seaonal vegetable, basically end of april to the end of june in Europe and are considered an absolute delicacy. During these times it looks like every other restaurant has some sort of special menu featuring them. So, great job on having some while they are in season!

    9. @yuriykorotkevych8838 on

      Brno is much more interesting than Plzen or Ceske Budejovice, IMHO. Also, a great way to vary the video content when you're in Czech Republic is to visit castles there, which are many and fascinating.

    10. @ronik24 on

      Nice! 🙂
      The reason you don't find a historic center in České Velenice is because it was one town together with Gmünd – divided after the Austro-Hungarian monarchy fell apart in 1918. And further divided over several decades by the Iron Curtain in the second half of the 20th century.
      Actually, the current České Velenice train station was the historic station for all of Gmünd.
      27:00 These train tracks are part of the Waldviertel narrow gauge network, the southern branch. Once the narrow gauge railway also connected to České Velenice station and was later rerouted.

    11. @Blablagerman on

      Hey Mate, first I thought 48min is pretty long for a video, but it was really interesting and not boring at all. At the border you could have asked at the POLIZEI / Police station if the bus would have passed there to avoid walking all way back, the police in north and central Europe are normally pretty friendly. Or you could have asked at the stripclub, get a glimpse of the situation inside, they opened at 11am, and their job is (among other things) to be friendly too 😉

    18. @zabisgarden on

      Love to see Slovakia! Particularly because of the castles, caves, hot springs and wilderness. It looks very magical, and different from most European countries. Wherever you go will be great, I'm just sayin.

    20. @jampuppy on

      I have loved seeing more of this country. I studied Czech and Slovak in the army. The teachers were so patio ate about their homelands, it rubbed off. Thanks for these videos!

    24. @calebtravel5629 on

      I was in Slovakia in December 2023. I wasn’t sure what to expect but Bratislava is a pretty nice and chill capital city. I enjoyed the Bratislava castle and the blue church as well.

    25. @Deadfoot-Dan on

      Good tunage, but you must add Wheel of Karma to your first train ride when in India, the extended version. After my recent Amtrak experience I really want to experience an efficient and timely train journey, feel like Europe is my best option for this.

    30. @brasni1 on

      There is Easter, the year's biggest festive season, in Greece from the 3. – 6. May. Things do not function normally then and because of an influx of visitors, hotels might be hard to get.

    31. @confusedtraveler171 on

      Gabe, why don't you try some of the major international car rentals? There's at least one branch in each airport.
      Also Slovakia and Czech republic are not that much alike. When it comes to nature Slovakia is just beautiful and spending at least a few days in High Tatra mountains would definitely be worthwhile.

    39. @MARC-FENIX on

      I saw that you talked about a Safari experience in this video.
      I can only recommend you to come to the Safari Land Stukenbrock. And in the vecinity you got the Hermannsdenkmal (Germanys statue of liberty).
      Save travels Gabriel Traveler.

    42. @vitkrivan9380 on

      Hey Gabriel, I truly think you should do a video summarising your adventures around central europe and what you think of each country or city. As a Czech myself, that would be super interesting to hear whats the perception of foreigners on our country. Thank you :))

    44. @Pidalin on

      9:04 – Pricing of train tickets got much more complicated in last years becuse of private companies, competition on some routes + sometimes you have option to buy flexible ticket (which was default in the past and more expensive) or ticket with mandatory train which is mostly cheaper, but when you combine more trains and go to other country, who knows what they actually sold you. There are also trains of different classes and I am not talking about second or first class, some trains are just more expensive, like Pendolino for example.
      These buses instead of trains are very often thing here, but thankfully, it's mostly not a big problem when you know about it before your ride, but sometimes it can be tricky to find where bus goes from, because not everywhere there is a road next to train stop, but local people mostly know where temporar bus stop always is in case of some accident or something that trains can't go.
      14:15 – This says request stop, press the button if you want to leave there. I can't imagine beying foreigner here and using these ordinary trains where everything is only in Czech. But I also survived Portugal, Poland, Latvia and other countries, sometimes it's kind of punk traveling, but that's probably what we love about that. 😀
      Those strip clubs or casinos are very common near borders with Austria or Germany because they have everything somehow regulated and taxed there, while here, it's the wild east for them, so they travel here for these experiences, it's sad, but reality. I am pretty sure that most of "thai massage" places are just another strip clubs or masked brothels.

    45. @claudiaberger9639 on

      32:22 "Rail replacement service", "Göpfriz an der Wild" = Göpfritz=the town, Wild=located on the Wild river.
      Replacement rail transport with buses is set up if a railway line cannot be used temporarily.

    48. @user-lw5ib7yn7q on

      Zu DDR Zeiten war ich oft in diesen schönen land mit schöne Erfahrungen ! Habe einen SKODA S 100 gefahren und wo ich jung war eine 350 er Jawa !
      1992"da Urlaub gemacht etwas unfreundlich aufgenommen !
      2015 Urlaub gemacht war wieder schön
      Gruß aus Potsdam

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