Would You Ride This Train Across The Balkans? 🇧🇬
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- Опубліковано 3 жов 2024
- Would you ride this 40 year old Ex-Communist train across the Balkan Mountains for 8 hours?...No napping allowed!!!
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Kurt, when you are in Bulgaria try to talk with the young people about where you need to go! You will see the difference in how they will navigate you on English etc.
Japanese thought that Bulgaria is bigger than China when they've been told that Sofia - Varna train is 8 hours.
🤣🤣🤣 we dont have 300mp/h trains unfortunately
@@smileyp5112 I know.You have 80km/h BDZ.....lol
@Stefan Impressive
f u
@@alexandarstoimenov2943 why?
I've binge watched a few of your travels so far and I must say I am impressed with how you travel. You don't use a guide and immerse yourself in the language and culture which makes each and every video a pleasure. I myself travel frequently abroad for work but it's inspiring to see you travel for leisure so freely and create such great content! Keep it coming my friend and safe travels!
waw, in Sofia Train Station you can pay with card, they are into the future. Funny moment as well are when you are asking ''Do you speak English?'' they say ''No'' and the conversation continues in English :)
Hahaha yeah
kurt eating lots of street foods without any hassles thats a guy to learned and followed
-how much
-място?
-25лв
what a nice communication :D
the train is an outdated german Interregio. this paintjob was last used in 1986, its the last paintjob in the old bundesbahn color scheme. seeing these old trains makes me nostalgic. of course they still dont have TÜV anymore, but its nice theyre actually still in use and serving people just fine. they still do the job. one of the last models you were able to actually pull down the window entirely. in some waggons you were allowed to smoke. for me this train is like a timecapsule greetings from germany
Schön gesagt
why i love the comment section ! cheers
there are newer trains in Bulgaria but the most are these old ones...
srsly best train ever i miss them Y.Y
Sitting here and trying to figure out what does “tüv” mean
8:46 "We get our own personal cabins"
10:17 "Da fuk you do"
Facts
The way you answered the lady asking if it was the train to Plovdiv really cracked me up 😂
😂
Train is a must, good stuff , you are a brave lion . Cheers, from an expat in bulgaria
Thank you!
6:30 "Is good vodka?" no bro its one of the worst drinks in the entire universe . for real
If I had liked Victoria's song I would have ordered some online!
You can see the other guy smirking.
"Yeah, trust, this shit is good"
OMG kkkkkkkkkk
kwo mu dade flirt e ne
Trueeee
don't you ever tryFlirt
I love my Bulgaria! Обичам си я моята България!
Обичаш си ја твоја Татариа ❤️
Обичаш си го твојата земја(племе) дојдено од Монголија.Вие ќе ми кажувате мене најстара земја или кирилско писмо дека е ваше.Тоа припаѓа на Македонија,а најстара земја е Грција.
@@sweetdreams961 Абе го решив бугаров(Татаров азијски)
@@sweetdreams961 Македония е Българска ♥️
@@pepsicola888 Bugarija e Tatarska 😘
Totally different world 🌍 ,,,still love it ❤
Greetings from Brooklyn NY 😎
Great video 📸
this channel is a life saver for me
Always a Hoot , traveling with You Kurt
13:15 that dude has probably the best english pronunciation I have ever heard from a bulgarian ..
P.S. im bulgarian as well
How safe is Bulgaria,? Is there any crimes happens, like murder, thief
@@nstsarr5189 Not more than your average country , if you stay away from the poor neighborhoods you will be fine :)
@@stavcho what you my average country? I dnt understand.
@@nstsarr5189 I mean its just like the average country in Europe , not much crime rate if you stay away from the bad neighborhoods.. simple as that
@@stavcho ok nice
those bulgarian trains
are exactly the same we have in morroco
2:35
Woman: Vlak (train)?
Kurt: No, Varna Varna
What language thinks vlak is a good name for trains??? LOLZZ :))
I LOLd at that too
(13:50)Kurt: Take a look outside, outside: absolutely nothing hahahahah.
I have watched almost all your videos for the last 3 days...
Well done for the enthusiasm and desire to, you make such quality content, I wish you great success!
Thank You!
Same here
The woman from the Banitcharnitza was lovely💚
I went to Bulgaria in the 90s and it was brilliant. Went to a Balkan town called Sliven which was unreal. Had so many wild times there, in Varna and the resorts. The people were generally friendly but there was a whole lot of mafia and dodgy things going on. Hats off to this guy; he goes all around the world and doesn't give a f*@k . It is a really raw, unpretentious and real travelogue, which is the best way. Plus he clearly likes a drink 😃
We have Bulgarian yogurt in Austin Texas - White Mountain brand: (with L. Acidophilus, L. Bulgaricus, S. Thermophilus, B. Bifidum). It is packaged in a 32 oz glass jar, and is wonderful! 😋
The best one !
L. Bulgaricus most likely the bacteria they were trying to name, awesome
sadly we sold the patent to China as well as our Pink Rose Jam
@@k.ss.s4946 What are you talking about, comrade Glavset ? 🤔
@@Austin8thGenTexan i am saying Bulgarian yogurt is no longer Bulgarian :(
Kurt i'll be glad to welcome you again in Bulgaria especially in Sofia,write me man i'll be you're guide to everywhere
Thanky ou for being so amazing Kurt I watch you're videos alot keep up the good work my friend .
Kurt! This is honestly your funniest vlog, that old little bastard haha had me laughing a minute. Great work!!
Koput from the chuckle brothers🤣
thx! Got an authentic impression of Bulgaria! Interesting country I wanna go to as soon as it will be possible
Cheers and thank you
It's an amazing country...
@@gobbledee55 Not really 😂
@@sweetdreams961it's the only country that reflects your personality, if you are good people will treat you well and with respect
so did you go?
We just subscribed to your channel! Keep up the great work!
Thanks!
I like how 95% of the comments are with grammar or vocabulary mistakes.
Just a reminder to all, who say that Bulgaria is "not proper Balkan":
The Balkan peninsula is called that way because of the Balkan mountain (Stara Planina nowadays) , 80% of which is in Bulgaria.
of course, Greece is also Balkan
long live the balkans
We have simmiliar trains in the Czech Republic and a few of them still go at main corridors
Bro I swear I like seeing this channel, why because I just like seeing other people travel to other places
Hahah nice . The south african Harold . Good videos man. Grtz from Belguim
It's so fascinating to see your country from a foreigner's perspective.
I was in Bulgaria in May of 2017 and took the train from Sofia to Vidin . I had been warned that in Bulgaria and Macedonia that many people have a phobia against a breeze from an open window. But it was already summer weather and the train had no a/c. Since the windows opened , I opened the one nearest me a crack.. A man sitting on the other side of the center aisle train quickly came over and slammed my window shut. I opened it slightly again and told him to change his ( unassigned) seat. He did. Other than that small thing, I loved Bulgaria.
Macedonia is in Greece.
@@Alexander-bj6vj Did I say it wasn't? North Macedonia is also a separate country.
@@kellygreen5556 so you were talking about Greece?
One of the best and beautiful Videos ever made
haha as Bulgarian it took me some time to realize why the side of the rail tracks was always brown-ish. "They use so much oil and it leaks" I thought..
Now days new cars have sealed toilets, but I still like the old ones because of the specific bouncy ride.
Dont cry. Its good our train in serbia is in worst condition... and you cant belive that you will sit there for 7 hours. Me and my friends had great time in train like that. You can smoke,drink have music. Great time 🤣
From Bangladesh with love for you dear.
iv watched ur every video of Latin America.
u r really a good person and a talented traveler..
You may not have realised the positive feature of this train: windows that you can open. Modern trains don't have them, only AC ---> Borat: "very bad".
Your video popped up onto my feed randomly and I opened it and stayed for the homeboy accent. Now I'm back to watching your old video's
Maaan, I live in Bulgaria and I'm glad I saw your video! Keep going 🤗
Hello Kurt !
Great your vidéos on Bulgaria !
Wa wi wo !
👌👍🏻😂🤣😉
Thank you!
@@KurtCaz
May be, you come one time in Switzerland !
Here in Colombia we travel by bus. When I travel from my town to Medellin the trip lasts at least 13 hours, sometimes 15 because the bus stops very often to take people. However, I prefer more traveling by plane because it is faster!
I was in Colombia last year, but distances where to long for me and security to low to go by bus. From Bogota to Santa Marta I just took the plane, which was already more than an hour but definitely comfortable. Had some exhausting bus rides in Yucatán, Mexico just a few months ago. Greets!
@@simonlippok40 Great to know you visited Colombia! 😉👍🏽
Bulgaria is like some Emir Kusturica movie.
what a great adventure ...Kurt
Thanks!
@@KurtCaz ....looking forward to more videos
Kurt: "Entering the old So-"
Me: don't say Soviet
"-fia train station!"
Ok.
I love when you do a BORAT impression 😅😂👍
That toilet was the funniest thing I ever saw. Can't say its not efficient, but that's one train i would not want to speed past me in the wind.
I am very glad that you visited my hometown Varna. I hope you had a great time
Our trains are mostly old german trains from the 1970s and 1980s with old Skoda locomotives, the little new trains are the Siemens Desiro EMU and DMU from 2005 - 2008 and the new ten Siemens Smartron locomotives that BDZ(Bulgarian State Railways) bought before maybe 2 months and will arrive between January and May 2021
rail fan
Trainspotter
Might be stupid or ignorant of me, but I never knew Bulgaria invented cyrillic alphabet. I always called it "Russian alphabet" now I will call it bulgarian alphabet lol
good for you
@@Anticommunism99 Why so rude?
@@pyrosphynx5449 what?
@@Anticommunism99 not precieved as nice, thats all.
@@Anticommunism99 then he plays dumb after being rude? Lol. Fcuk Face :)
Watch your back bro, you are in Bulgaria. Its a friendly tip from a Serbian guy.
He is not saying blow daria or blogger Daria .
He says Thank you
Blagodaria in bulgarian
I saw "Varna" written in cyrillic at the first sight at the screen with yellow characters. I guess you were just overwhelmed by the general confusion there... I guess we would've had an absolute memorable video had you sat down with the "kaputt" tramps! A pitty... You are anyway a legend Kurt! That is soooo entertaining to watch and I like how you roll. Alcohol, haircuts, random streets... I would watch that again and again for decades in every corner of the world!
Not everybody knows Cyrillic, you know?
10:05 So much for having the car to yourself.
Man that guys great
His English is total American accent
Like midwestern
Its sad to see people who work at the train station in Sofia the capital of Bulgaria doesn't speak English. For the tourists must be very difficult.
Go to Germany and then talk about no english speakers...
@@cesarantunes3816 I was in Germany. I was in Erfurt, Veymar and Jena. Everywhere I was, the people who worked at the train station, bus station and the taxi drivers speak English.
It's very important when you are in foreign country, people who work at the train or bus station to speak English. Now I live in Czech republic and in the beginning i had to speak only English. But in Bulgaria this is kinda normal not to speak English.
FUN FACT: Bulgarian language is one of the hardest languages to learn.(some may say it's more difficult than Chinese and Arabic)
KURT.......!!!!! YOU GO OFF THOSE RAILS ON THAT CRAZY TRAIN YOU FRICKIN BEAST!!!!! ROCK N ROLL AMIGO!!!!!
I don’t know why this vlog is so funny to me 😅I love Kurt’s videos but nearly all these people look half awake at the station and very confused as to why they’re being filmed at this random station 🤣
I used to visit my grandparents in Yambol every summer when I was a kid, now I am 30 and I can tell you the shitty trains have not changed a bit. Now I travel between Sofia and Varna only by plane.
Good old memories haha 🙌
@@KurtCaz are they really ? ahahha
и аз имам толкова носталгия да ходия по тази жп линия за варна и честно казано не бих си сменил транспорта
The railway transportation is not managed well, so it's being used by the poor population mainly unlike in many western european countries where railway transportation is actually good, comfortable and fast enough.
Kurt is cool , my kind of vacations
Fun fact these train carridges are from East Germany. BDZ is going to get new ones soon from Siemens.
Come to Serbija Brother.Vojvodina
You are a superhero once you have completed the journey from Sofia to Varna. Next time, take a seat in the sleeping carriages. Vodka is also cheap, but I also drink from it 😃👍
another BANGER video!
😃😃very funny Kurtz showing toilet....be careful u might fall through it
What a shame he didn't felt
Let’s appreciate the banitsa big water and vodka for les than 2.50 euros
WoW bro you've been a lot till you get my home town Varna.... Much respect 😂
The bathroom thing was so funny. I laughed a lot and I am at work :D
Man, when I saw that toilet. I lost it 🤣🤣🤣 it’s a damn hole
I wish if I could help u there cus u fi d it so difficult to understand their language. Cos ur english is easy to understand for me. Keep it up n al the best
Man you are crazy to go alone in this country … i love it
Why?
Why?
Binge watching! On to the next one♥️👍😊
Sorry, that was not a 40 year old communist wagon, but a west-german from the 1980s/1990s.... When the ICE train came out, the old wagons were exported to all ove Europe... And they are still running
Reminds me of my train ride in Romania last year 😅 no one was speaking English and I had trouble to find my train. Afterwards a 10 hours ride in an old Soviet train from Timisoara to Bucharest, which was probably the most exhausting of my entire life 😂 Arrived at 1 am in Bucharest and there was absolutely no options for food.. It was still an experience and I’ll definitely never forget Eastern Europe!
These toilets have been working perfectly for two centuries now.
Vodka in small bottles usually is 38.5 grades instead of 40, which is pretty boring to find out.
I was just in Bulgaria. I took train from Sofia to Plovdiv. Just that simple ride was very confusing on what track it was. Nobody speaks English lol. I also took the train from Veliko Tărnovo to Varna in sweltering heat. That was a hell of a train ride
Ahh I had lots of fun at that train station and on those trains! haha I was there just days before you!
8:20 - one of the women asked you if the train goes though Plovdiv (city in south Bulgaria) and the other one after that said Pleven (city in North Bulgaria), both are big cities, with familliar names. I still hadn't seen all of your videos in Bulgaria, but if you haven't been to Stara Zagora or want to go to the seaside again, I would be glad to help out :)
Thanks
these trains were actually produced in Germany many years ago. But they still last.
02:45 she asks VLAK? And you said No 🤣🤣🤣🤣 vlak is train in bulgaria
Nice. LOVE ❤️ 😍 💖 BULGARIA 🇧🇬 ❤️. AIM FROM BULGARIA 🇧🇬 😀 😊
Nice video! This train reminds me of the trains I rode on in the 1980 traveling throughout Western Europe. I am sure these are those same trains, these are probably not Russian ones. May times us backpackers would be sleep on those hallway floors, disgusting now to think about!
I think the carriages are built in Bulgaria. The locomotives are mostly the electric Skoda 68e made in Czechoslovakia
@@vasiliansotirov6976 I noticed that in bg most trains are skoda
lets check out the next... okey im gonna sit here, HAHA
I am one of the veiwer of the guy, I like his expression and movement. I want to know his name and country .
ты классный парень ,you cool man
You travel with fast train 2615 i think.Its interesting how you aksed peoples in english and they understand you right in some cases,but answered in bulgarian.
Brother, you find the best toilet in Bulgaria lmao xD 10:22
😆😆😆
Toilets are overrated anyway. ;]
Why taking this train when there is a night train with beds and private cabins that is much better? The night train with beds departs around 11 pm
Not as fun.
@@KurtCaz the night train could be great for a vlog, but instead of going to the bed sife, find a fun company who drink beer and listen music in the standard coupes.
I looked so much like you when I was younger, maybe a little better looking, but very similar 😁. Going to Bulgaria in 2 weeks. Hope to ski a bit.
If that was me; I would have just sat down and drink with them when he said the train was caput and probably not made it to Varna.
I hope Kurt next have plans to visit my country Albania🇦🇱 i would love it ❤️ people are hospitable and🇦🇱 very beatiful country
I am following you I’m from Saudi Arabia, we hope that you will visit Saudi Arabia
Wah wah weeeee wah - Kurt
Bald would finish that bottle of vodka in one sip
The bacteria that you ask for is Lactobacillus bulgaricus and it can be found only in nature of Bulgaria :)
Yess...thank you.
And a little true facts about the history and the Cyrillic. Actually the oldest country in Europe is Greece , not Bulgaria and the Cyrillic alphabet is also made in Greece-Thessaloniki, for us the Bulgarians and the Slavs (Russians), which accepted the orthodox christianity and haven’t had their own alphabet.
But Bulgaria is maybe the second oldest country yeah! I am not fan of chauvinism, so better tell the truth!...
@@milenixx8384 For four months nobody told you that you should be a fan of reading before even being a fan/not a fan of chauvinism. What you've wrote is neither "true facts", nor "tell the truth" post. Cyrillic alphabet isn't created in Thessaloniki, Saint Cyril and his brother Saint Methodius were born there. But they didn't even create Cyrillic alphabet, what they created probably along with few of their diciples is called Glagolitic alphabet. Where exactly they or Saint Cyril started it is not a known for sure fact, maybe they did it on their mission to Great Moravia, but if we accept the words of their diciple Clement of Ohrid, much earlier when they've been to byzantine monastery in Anatolia (Asia Minor), south of Sea of Marmara. After their mission in Great Moravia, they've spent time with few of their diciples in Rome, seeking permission from the pope, which they've acquired, to use the Slavonic Liturgy in all of Great Moravia and Pannonia. They've had altercations with an Archbishop, bishops, ect which viewed those lands as their own and wanted only Latin Liturgy, so such permission will grant them the needed freedom in those lands. Saint Cyril was made an Archbishop, Saint Methodius was ordained a priest in Rome along with few of their diciples. The next year Saint Cyril died in Rome and his brother along with their students continue their work in Pannonia and Great Moravia but their altercations with German clergy there intensify as well. They were held prisoners at times and after the death of Saint Methodius, the students were expeled from Great Moravia and returned to Bulgaria where they've established theological schools commissioned by the ruler Knyaz Boris I.
From this moment in bulgarian lands by bulgarian people with commission of bulgarian ruler, the Cyrilic Alphabet was developed and later made official, to remove some of the difficulties in the Glagolitic one. Yes, we better tell the truth, at least something as close as possible by written sources to it, but first and foremost we should have some knowledge about it!
Love your borat gestures man!!😆😆
There is a sights all over the way you walked about train station and bus station that is next to it. Also the big electronic monitors is the schedule for trains arrivals and departures on Bulgarian and English language ....
0:30 Borat, is that you? Lmao