Yeh it’s great tbh…interesting city & surprisingly relaxed/comfortable in most areas 😎🇵🇱 very easy to get around and film, without being bothered by any dodgy characters! Fully enjoyed my day exploring on the metro 🚇🙌🏼
At the Pole Mokotowskie station you've missed a big park, which has the same name as the metro station. It's the second-largest park in Warsaw, which spans through three (!) districts of the city (Mokotów, Ochota and Śródmieście). It has a massive lake, some cafés and bars and really beautiful walkways. Also worth nothing - before the second World War this area served as a main Warsaw's airport.
@@Soulwatcher56 Ooof that park sounds cool 🌳 I think by the time I got to that part of the line I was trying to make sure I made it through the rest of the stations in good time 🥸 definitely a lot more things I go back to explore on both M1 & M2 🚇 Loving the airport fact! 🤩✈️
This video made me remember "Następna stacja" by Taco Hemingway - a hip-hop song about the unique vibes of each of the metro stations in Warsaw, (very good one, but in Polish )
The area you liked so much and said you would like to live in is called "Stary Żoliborz" (Old Żoliborz) and is indeed considered as one of the absolutely best places to live in Warsaw.
A nice video. For some reason, the YT algorithms suggested it to me. ZTM tickets in Warsaw are valid for the entire public transport network, which includes buses, trams, the metro, and urban trains (SKM). It's important to validate your ticket upon entering the vehicle or at the metro station gates. Similar to Latin and Italian, Polish nouns change their forms based on their grammatical role in a sentence. This is known as declension. In the phrase "Plac Wilsona," the noun "Wilson" is in the Genitive case, indicating possession, much like "Wilson's Square" in English.
Thanks a lot! 😎 Yeh I used a few of the buses as well, just not in this particular video…a very efficient transport system overall 🚇 🚃 🚎 🚊 Ooof nice grammatical info 🇵🇱🤓 love that! I definitely tried my best at the station names for the voiceover narration 😝…on the actual filming day, slightly messy with the names haha 😂 but that’s part of the fun I guess!
You heard sirens in park Kaskada frequently because at 7:38 the dark gray building is a firefighter school and firefighting department with 4 garage doors, 3 for firefighting squads and 1 for ambulance. Yep You guessed right, I live very close and I know everything about those damn sirens, day and night 🤣
Actually LOL’d 😂 at this comment! Well that certainly explains the sirens!🚨. This must be a nightmare at night 💀 but it does seem like a really great area to live in, so I guess it’s still worth it? I’d probably be having a meltdown if I got woken up all the time though 🤪😅
came across your video and LOVE it! walking down the memory lane, literally and freshly - because just three days ago I came back from warsaw (to NYC) ... brought 3-day tickets with zone1&2, roaming around aimlessly all day every day ... the most wonderful time
Thanks a lot 🤩 I’m so happy you loved the video! Wow, that’s a very fresh trip 🇵🇱 but sounds as though you spent it extremely wisely getting the day tickets & wandering about Warsaw, glad you had a wonderful time 🥳🚇 any favourite things/parts of the city? On another note, I went to NYC on a college trip when I was 17, such a fun place! 😍
@@n1ckburt0n Yes! besides the metro, try the trams (next time). many routes but each has its own flavor above the ground ... even a few crossing the river, and passing the stadium ... i also took several ones right on the Poland Independence Day ... amazing energy among young and senior polish ppl!!!
Thanks, Martin 😎🙌🏼 glad you enjoyed it! Yeh there’s more coming, currently editing one on the red line (M2) Warsaw & then all four lines of the Budapest Metro 🇭🇺🚇
@@mancubwwa plenty of development then 🌳🏙️ …Letňany station at the end of Prague Metro’s Line C 🔴 is mostly surrounded by fields, the end station differences always interest me 🤓
This was mostly because the metro really needed a technical station to store the trains at, and they couldn't put it anywhere where the area was vastly developed, so they put it on some random fields near the Las Kabacki forest.
OMG! Park Kaskada is where I used to take my dogs for a walk for the last 22 years! Now I live in Luxembourg and really miss it. It’s so cool to see it in your video.
@@jasiekzar Love that! 😍 Yeh exactly, sometimes people will say “Why did you go to ____ and not ____?!” but, as you say, there’s beauty in ordinary places 🌳 Hope you’re enjoying life in Luxembourg! 🇱🇺😎
Of course you were in Woodrow Wilson Square :) President Wilson was for the independent Polish state in 1918, and we are grateful for that! Hey, didn't you miss Politechnika station? :)
Yeh I did skip Politechnika in the video cos I was trying to make sure I could get through the entire line in time 😝 but I do slightly regret not checking out the above ground area of that station now 🙊
Don't be surprised that people tend to watch videos from their own country. This is a psychological topic: we try to see ourselves through others eyes as a form of confirmation for ourselves that we are doing good and our view of the world is correct as others see it the same. For expample: when I watch a person from US visiting Warsaw metro and commenting on it the same way I would do myself, I get the confirmation that my wiev of the world is the same as others. We all like to belong, right? It is the best when someone outside of our culture, country, group etc confirms it as we instictivly feel that people who live with us in same place could have view of the world distorted as we could have. That's why you will always get more views from people from that country you made a video in.
That’s definitely an interesting theory 🧠🙌🏼 and I’d agree that’s totally one of the reasons people watch stuff from their own area/country. It would make an interesting study 📖🤓 maybe I should put a poll on the community tab haha I think it also depends on your specific interests. I barely ever watch anything about the UK 🇬🇧 as I’m more interested in foreign countries 😝✈️
@@n1ckburt0n well... I like to watch videos of foreigners living in or visiting Warsaw. It's interesting to get a different perspective on things I see every day, and, by the way, I can recommend something to tourists who want to see more than the standard things recommended in guidebooks.
Yeh that’s certainly a good take on it 😎 I almost want to do these metro lines again now knowing all the extra information that locals added into the comments…particularly the M2 line, there’s so much depth to the designs, more than a tourist could know/work out or even probably research 🤩
20:23 you were very lucky - this old Vagonmash 81 is only riding on mondays wednsdays and fridays only on the M1 line. Also there's only one of them in use - its a historic train that is still in use :)
It was not only the residents of Warsaw rebuilding the city after war, Nick, it was whole nation. I remember my mother telling me about special taxes on rebuilding the Warsaw after 1945. And the slogan "Whole nation is rebuilding its capital city". So it was whole nation effort.
@@adventuremapping Thanks for adding that 😎 great that the whole country chipped in to rebuild and restore Warsaw. I wonder if people were happy about the taxes at the time or not 🤔😝 but at least it looks as though that money was well spent. Which part of Poland are you from? 🇵🇱
@@n1ckburt0n I am from south Poland. No, I think people didn't mind these extra taxes. At least it was the case of my mother. Well, everybody knew it was needed.
10:42 Thomas Woodrow Wilson Square or"platz vilsonaa" in traditional Polish, although lots of Poles learning English at one time, will pronounce "W" in English fashion (Polish "Ł" like Słodowiec - "swodovietz", like English "sword").
Yeh I guess there’s some differences between how people would pronounce the “W” there, based on either Polish language rules vs from the name Wilson 🤓 The “Ł” is really interesting though 😎 Polish is definitely a tough language but v cool too! 👌🏻🇵🇱
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@@n1ckburt0n "ł" in "Słodowiec" is not at all like "w" in "sword", as the "w" is silent there :D. "Ł" is always pronounced as "w" in "wiggle" for example.
fun fact: two stations „Ursynów” and „Służew” are covered in mosaics done according to original project from 70's and these mosaics were inscribed onto poland's historical heritage list
lol 😂 good little slogan 😉 I’ll keep that in mind for future videos…of course, I did actually see them all to get from one end of the line to the other…just a couple may be omitted from the video footage 📹 I was trying to get a balance of underground/overground rather than just those video run throughs of all the stations that are already on UA-cam for most metro lines 😎
Someone already explained that "Plac Wilsona" is "Wilson Square", named after 28th President of the US, for his support of Independence of Poland after WW1. The detail that was missing was that this was a completely new district, suburbs. That's why you had this suburbs vibe when walking around! There's more! You pronounced "Wilanowska" almost perfectly. We pronounce "W" and "Wi" in Polish differently. And people in Poland didn't actually know English, so they didn't know how to correctly pronounce the name Wilson! They simply pronounce it the way it made sense to them. It's actually a tradition (especially among older citizens) to still say it, like it was "Vilson", just like you would say the word "village".
@@marcins5183 Ahh! 😎 Love that missing detail, makes a lot of sense why it felt like a suburbs type of vibe then 😋 Haha cheers, I tried the best I could with the pronunciations 🫢 sometimes I’m doing the audio narration numerous times and either the Polish word gets slightly messed up or I mess up the smoothness of the English part of what I’m saying 🤣🤪 but we’re getting there! ⬆️ 🥳
Not sure if it was mentioned by someone already, but between the stations Dworzec Gdański and Ratusz Arsenał there was supposed to be an additional station called Muranów (same as the name of the area), and it was one of two stations that ended up being cut from plans to save on costs during the construction of the original length of the first line. It's apparently supposed to make a comeback in the next few years, filling the quite significant gap distance wise (around 1,5km, 15-20 minute walk) between the two stations. It also means you kinda missed Muranów as an area, which would require a bit more backtracking from Ratusz Arsenał than you already did and it's a bit of a shame as it's a lovely area. I am somewhat biased tho as I live directly on the other side of the street from where the Muranów station was supposed to be :)
@@axing_ Thanks for adding all of that information 🚇🤓 nobody has mentioned any of that yet, very interesting! It would be cool if Muranów could make a comeback in the plans, and it’d surely give me a reason to come back for another visit 😝 you’re definitely right about the distances between stations, some are much longer than others, but your info about planned stations getting cut makes a lot of sense as to why that is😎
@@n1ckburt0n: What's more-there is the same case for the station between Politechnika and Pole Mokotowskie. There was the station called "Plac Konstytucji" (Constitution Square) supposed to be built. In the last few years, there have been plans to build these two stations (Muranów and Plac Konstytucji). I don't know what about Muranów station (finally, Ratusz-Arsenał station was moved further north, and some people say it would be to small distance between Ratusz-Arsenal and Dworzec Gdański stations to fit the additional station there). But Plac Konstytucji station is likely to be built because it's planned to be a transfer station between M1 and planned M3 metro lines.
I wish I was younger to travel like that. I dreamt of London, went there when I was 19. But the Brits didn't want me there... It was before PL joined EU. I got a stamp in my passport that I can't cross EU borders for 5 yrs, because they thought I worked without permission. My heart broke into million pieces. I never left PL again in my life. UK was my greatest dream since I was a child, I don't know why... like I was born with it. I'm happy for you, that you can travel and enjoy the world. All the best. Greets from Warsaw. P.S. Always a great pleasure for me to hear a beautiful British accent :) (Sorry for my English).
Aww no 😭 that sounds sooo bad, sorry that happened to you! You should definitely try to see some other places if you’re able to 😎 I think it’s important to remember that there are nearly 70 million Brits & we don’t all act the same or think the same…on issues like Brexit etc. it’s very split. I’m sure there are plenty of Brits who would’ve loved to have you there! I have a few Polish friends that live in the UK and they’re great! 😃 Thanks very much, I’m glad you like the accent and the content 😝🙏🏻 I definitely realise how lucky I am to be able to travel to most places fairly easily & so I try to make the most out of it 😇
@@n1ckburt0n I'd love too see Scotland (Ruth Aisling channel here on YT is great, I travel with her virtually :)), I think that UK is the most beautiful island in this world. I wrote poems to UK when I was a teen... so silly. Sigh... Well, maybe next life. Thanx for your kind words. Enjoy your adventures!
@Margitha Chcesz poczuć klimat Londynu w Polsce? Pojedź do Pułtuska. Londyn to taki Pułtusk tylko sto razy większy i dwa razy brudniejszy i bardziej zatłoczony. :)
@@n1ckburt0n I work in that market in highly specialized shop with electronics and optics - amazing place - extremely cheap prices and highest quality of food every day, but yeah - full fledged market is on tue/fr - amazing, oldschool vibe. :D
Thanks, Janusz! 😃🙌🏼 “calming and relaxing” is such a big compliment 😎 I love videos where I can just watch and feel chilled 🧘🏻♂️. Warsaw is great 🇵🇱 I’m sure it must be a fun place to live! 🏙️
@@wazawazazawa Haha 🤣 first person to mention that in the comments 🏆🎶 a moment of fully releasing the randomness that goes through my brain while filming these adventures 🤪😝
@@menoflowicz Ahh yeh 😭 someone else mentioned that, I didn’t know about it. I did actually go through Politechnika station, of course, it’s just not in the video footage…but would’ve been cool to go outside and see that 🥸 next time! 🚇
Thank you! 🙌🏼😍 This is my new favourite comment 😄 I got an online translator to say all the Polish words aloud & tried to parrot 🦜 them for the audio narration 🥸🥳
Yeah, I am really surprised at how well he was pronouncing Polish names. Even if it's just repeating the names heard in the app, there are still many difficult to pronounce sounds in the Polish language.
I commute by the M1 every single day and I must point out that you missed the station Politechnika (Technical University) which is my everyday destination and coincidentally the ugliest station we have. You need to take a tour of the M2 since that line has stations that are way more modern and impressive.
Haha 😂 yeh I would’ve passed through it on the train 🚊 but I don’t remember much about it 😝 is there much to see above ground there other than the Technical University? I’ve already filmed an M2 video…it’ll be uploaded soon 👀 , those stations are definitely a lot more colourful and modern.🙌🏼
@n1ckburt0n The University itself could be a tourist destination. Google "Gmach Główny Politechniki" and check it out yourself. Politechnika is also the closest station to places such as: Plac konstytucji - giant square surrounded by monumental socialist realist building Plac zbawiciela - circular plaza surrounded by many cafes and pubs Koszykowa street - which is full of beautiful architecture and there's the famous Hala Koszyki with many food joints Pole Mokotowskie - one of the biggest and most beautiful parks in Warsaw (I would argue it's our version of Central Park). It is also the favourite meetup space for students from nearby Technical University. Łazienki Park, Jazdów Estate and our parliament are also within a short bus ride from the station.
In the underpass at Politechnika station there is a large graphic showing the panoramas of Warsaw and Istanbul. It is made of Turkish handmade tiles, which were a gift from the Turkish side to celebrate the 600th anniversary of mutual diplomatic relations.
16:52 These flying horses are pegasi - symbols of poetry/talent. They were created in 2006 as part of an exhibition related to two prominent Polish poets. At first they had monitors inside and stood inside the Krasinski Palace building (one of the seats of the Polish National Library). After exhibition end, monitors were removed and pegasi were moved outside. At first they were to stand for only a year, but they stayed for longer - more than 16 years. A few months ago they were renovated and moved in front of the Library's main building near another Metro station - Pole Mokotowskie
You seem very chill and at least you tried pronouncing some of the station names. Poles love bitching about ourselves and our country. Warsaw for Poland is kind of like London is for England when it comes to the 'type' of people and lifestyle compared to the rest of the country. Many don't like the city, but it really is one of those places where the best thing to do there is what is least done; get lost and walk around. Good on you. I hope you can enjoy the 'royal' bath park. Shame you didn't come during the summer. The energy is amazing.
Thanks very much! 🤩 Yeh on this particular day I was fairly chill 🧘🏻♂️ (I’m not always that chill tbh 🫢😂) and having a fun time the whole way! Yeh I can definitely see the Warsaw/London comparison. I do kinda have a love/hate relationship with London each time I go there, depending on what I’m doing and which area etc. Some of my Polish 🇵🇱 friends did say similar things to what you mentioned about Warsaw & to try the smaller cities instead 😝 I thoroughly enjoyed it though! Yeh it would be nice to see the city in summer weather ☀️ but at least now I have a good excuse to return 🙌🏼
@@n1ckburt0n I love Warsaw, don't get me wrong. So many parks and things to do for you to relax... it's all about how much time you have for work vs. how much time you have for yourself. Definitely go to some more cities but, also to smaller towns to do some kayaing or etc. Nature is simple but, great here. Good luck with that!
Oh yeh completely 😎🧘🏻♂️ a good work/life balance is so soooo important! I’ve lived and worked in a few capital cities before & it’s definitely exciting at times but draining at others. Yeh I will totally go and check out more of Poland 🇵🇱🌳 & get some content for the channel too!
One of the criticism's of the Warsaw metro system is that it's not truly connected to any of the main long distance train stations. It's just a 7 minute walk from Warszawa Centralna railway station to the Centrum metro station, which I guess is shorter than some transfers within an ostensibly single station in Tokyo for example (I know, not really a fair comparison 😂) but you can't cross that without going out into the elements. The best you can do is walk to the Warszawa Śródmieście station underground, which makes it just 3 minutes under the sky, but still.
@@kFY514 Ahh yeah that’s a really good point 😎 & also, you’re right, on some huge metro systems you can actually be walking for ages to get to something/a connection but you’re still technically in the station or between two 🚶🏻♂️ Are there any plans for M3/M4/M5 to directly connect to a long distance station? 🚉
@n1ckburt0n AFAIK, M3 is gonna branch out of M2 at Stadion Narodowy and its first station from there is gonna be Dworzec Wschodni (Warsaw East train station). Also there's a Dworzec Zachodni (Warsaw West train station) station in the current plans for M5, but than can change 10 times over before it's actually built 😅 One peculiar thing about long distance trains in Warsaw is that almost *all* such trains stop at all three hubs: East, Central and West, in one direction or the other. The exception is some trains that stop at Warszawa Gdańska (connected to the Dworzec Gdański M1 station) instead. This happens mostly when either of the main hubs is being renovated. Which is a lot of the time. 😅
@@kFY514 haha let’s hope they don’t change the plans too many times then 😎😝 looks as though it’s gonna take a while, but I’m excited to see what they do with these new metro lines route-wise and design-wise 🥸🚇🇵🇱
@@n1ckburt0n Gdańska Station is one of the Warsaw smaller railway hubs. Metro Centrum station will be connected to the underground train station called Warszawa Śródmieście in the next 10 years. There are plans from more than a decade ago to do this but it is combined with a gigantic rebuild and modernization of underground train tunnels and tracs. Currently in the next 3-4 years 2 new Metro station will be built on M1 line. One between Centrum and Politechnika and the other between Ratusz and Gdański. Besides metro Warsaw has a quite large 7 city lines of railways which also serves other districts of city as well as suburbs and surrounding cities similar to S-Bahn in Berlin.
I once walked along the entire line (22km) with my friend. Great way to explore the city even if you are a local. The southern stations have modest design due to austerity - they were built in 1980s when Polish economy was in very bad condition. But they can serve as bunkers (cold war) - they have huge steel gates that are still functional and used during flooding rains 😂 See: ua-cam.com/video/Cj-TvK4FGuI/v-deo.htmlsi=PzfmuqWXcGBN7-mg
Great effort walking the entire thing 😎 & yeh I bet even locals would find a lot of new stuff they’d never seen before! Just had a watch of that video link 🔗 very cool 👌🏻🚇
85% of the whole town was destroyed. The old town in particular was completely wiped off the face of the planet. Literally nothing remained but basements and literal mountains of rubble.
Haha 🤣 yeh that’s usually the only reason foreigners ever know Middlesbrough! 😝…and even less so after too many years in The Championship rather than the Premier League… ☠️⚽️ It’s not the most exciting town ever, but it’s near the coast 🌊 has some beautiful countryside 🌳 close-by & the people are generally very friendly. 😃
@@n1ckburt0n What does mean "snazzy"??? Google does not know it.... (English or Czech please) = no idea of the meanig (good/positive or bad/negative) - designed and constructed according to polish requests...
Yeh I’m sure there are plenty of hidden gems around those areas 😎 it would be impossible to complete such a big metro line in one day at that pace though 🏃♂️ 😝
@@n1ckburt0n Road that you took between Wawrzyszew and Stare Bielany is one of my routes to and from work, but i always take a spin on it - always starting from different point - sometimes through nature 2000 preserve of Las Bielański to chill out and feed squirrels, sometimes throug AWF, sometimes through 3 parks from E-S, sometimes from S through ponds to feed ducks. I'm rly lucky SOB to work in that district. Before work i can chill, so i'm mentally prepared for clientele and after work i can take clear my head. I can imagine workin in corpo-hell concrete desert.
bro skipped Politechnika cos bro only had so much time to get the full thing done, bro 👊🏻😎🚇 Polish-Turkish mosaic does sound cool though, didn’t know about that 😇 maybe next time 🥳
Reason why people watch vids of their own country is to keep an eye on the facts and stats that people in said vid said, i,e., you. They will point out if you go wrong.
Haha 😂 this is EXACTLY what I was getting at with those comments I made in the video 👀 I do know a lot of people are also just genuinely interested in what visitors think of their city/country & the algorithm also probably serves up content based on location too sometimes 🤓 I’m trying to improve everything with each set of videos anyway & constructive comments can help with that 🧠😎🚇
21:01 - We live in some funny times where we still judge those guys as (insert backwards insult here) but we generally won't report them to the police (why? not worth it, too much things to care, etc, as long as kids are safe), but we're not far enough to think what made them "pee" here. (and as much as it might sound as a joke subject, it's very, very, very, serious for thousands of cities and citizens).
I don’t think it’s a serious enough “offence” to run and report them to the police (you’d also have no evidence)👮🏻♂️& a foreign passing tourist isn’t gonna be able to solve any potential underlying cause of that issue unfortunately…but I’m sure social services deployed in the right areas could pick up on these things and try to help 😇
It’s pronounced Vav-shy-shev. The first “sh” is pronounced like J in French. For example “J’adore”. The second like english “sh” in “shop”. And obviously “y” at the end of “shy” is different. It’s like you were saying “i”, but detached your tounge from the upper palate.
@@Selicular lol thanks for the detailed explanation, very cool 🗣️ to be honest, I played the name in Polish from Google translate whilst editing/narrating to copy 🦜 very difficult to narrate smoothly in English and switch to a random difficult Polish word halfway through the sentence or at the end of the sentence 😝🤪 It’s like…imagine saying a Polish sentence aloud and then saying a tricky UK 🇬🇧place name like “Loughborough” or “Aberystwyth” halfway through 😉 your tongue will be all over the palate! 🤣🤭
Yeh I heard the locals refer to it as the “first line”…I’m not sure why blue is enough to throw anyone off though (it does also say M1 in the title & intro) 😝 every metro map shows the two lines in blue & red and every station name sign on this line uses blue. 🔵🚇
@@kubiq2854 In English we use the terms “Nazi troops” and “Nazi Germany” to refer to their actions during that time…and this is an English language video 😉
Well, yeh…I’m used to referring to lines by colour cos I lived in Lisbon 🇵🇹(where they’re named by colour) and in Seoul 🇰🇷 (where they have a mix of names/numbers but it’s so much easier to use the colours if you’re taking a big journey using like 4 lines 😜😂). I also put in M1 🔵 in the title/description/video/tags so…😛🚇
We use the terms “Nazi troops” and “Nazi Germany” to refer to their actions during that time period. It’s an English language video & that’s how we refer to it 🙂
I quite liked it tbh, the above ground of each area does add to the experience though 😎🌳…agree on the noise lol it was quite hard to hear the announcements & film the video if there were trains anywhere near 🔈🚊 Do you have any metro systems that you prefer? 🌎 🚇
I’ve actually been to Sydney & used the trains there…it was back in 2016 though 🚂 their new metro system looks so good! I guess if the channel really takes off I’ll be able to go back there & check it out 😝🇦🇺🚇
it always pisses me off when someone says the Polish language is hard to pronounce, and they haven't even spent a minute to learn the basics. It's all about how you pronounce the letters you read. In Polish every letter sounds practically the same in every word and you always read it, not like in English. For example Warszawa you pronounce like Varshava, it's not hard, buy you need to learn the basics that 's' with 'z' is always "sh" and 'w' is always 'v'. To illustrate the point more clearly, I learned the Cyrillic alphabet in 5 minutes while sitting in a Lviv restaurant, because I didn't know what to order. It was much easier when I could read this of course, because I know polish, but my point is, its not so hard.
Erm…I tried my best with it in the audio…including listening to it online before narrating. It’s never gonna sound 100% correct to a native speaker, same as when foreigners pronounce “Loughborough”, “Leicester”, “Edinburgh” etc. I kinda find the differences or mistakes sweet. If UA-cam videos “piss you off” that much, might be best to find something else to do ✌🏼
lol no it’s not just you 😂 British people can be very grumpy too 😝 this video was probably the most chirpy and upbeat I’ve been in any of my videos on the channel! I do get that my pronunciation of some of the stations wasn’t that great on the filming day 🤪 but I did try in the audio narration to get the station names as accurate as possible 🤓 To be honest with you, when filming, I’m concentrating on what I’m saying, where I’m going, how I’m shooting the video, looking at maps, taking photos for potential thumbnails etc. For example try saying a sentence in Polish 🇵🇱 but halfway through throw in a difficult English place name, such as “Loughborough”, and then switch back into Polish 🤪 it can really throw off how smooth your sentence sounds aloud.
German troll! "German Gdansk" Gdansk was found by poles/lechs in ancient times and had it for 700 years. Germany destoyed 95% of Gdansk and got rebuild by poles
safe city and friendly ppl (cold on the outside, warm on the inside) ... not too big to have nice and clean and walkable streets, yet not too small to have everything you need
very walkable city, there's always something to do, a lot of places to go to. people are mostly nice and the public transport will take u anywhere. I really enjoy living here
18:34 Not Nazi but Germans . Please don’t us Nazi ! It’s completely wrong ! That sound like some people from Naziland but it’s not such a country . Please stop spread nonsense . Thanks ❤❤
Google “Warsaw old town destroyed”, every result says “Nazi Germany” or “Nazi troops”. That’s how it’s referred to in English & this is an English language video. If anything, the term “Nazi troops” or “Nazi Germany” is used to separate German ideas/action at the time from German ideas/action now…to not associate modern Germany with those actions (because we like modern Germany). Maybe stop commenting “nonsense” before doing some research 😉 Thanks ♥️
I live in Waesaw and I am constantly schocked how comfortable it became over the last 35 yrs
Yeh it’s great tbh…interesting city & surprisingly relaxed/comfortable in most areas 😎🇵🇱 very easy to get around and film, without being bothered by any dodgy characters! Fully enjoyed my day exploring on the metro 🚇🙌🏼
Where is Waesaw?
Not the spellcheck police 👮🏻♂️ rollin’ up 🤣🚔 lol
@@ataksnajpera in Poeand
@@wiktorm9858 Where is Poeand?
At the Pole Mokotowskie station you've missed a big park, which has the same name as the metro station. It's the second-largest park in Warsaw, which spans through three (!) districts of the city (Mokotów, Ochota and Śródmieście). It has a massive lake, some cafés and bars and really beautiful walkways.
Also worth nothing - before the second World War this area served as a main Warsaw's airport.
@@Soulwatcher56 Ooof that park sounds cool 🌳 I think by the time I got to that part of the line I was trying to make sure I made it through the rest of the stations in good time 🥸 definitely a lot more things I go back to explore on both M1 & M2 🚇
Loving the airport fact! 🤩✈️
This video made me remember "Następna stacja" by Taco Hemingway - a hip-hop song about the unique vibes of each of the metro stations in Warsaw, (very good one, but in Polish )
I just had a listen to it on UA-cam! 🎶😎 Obviously no idea what he was saying other than the station names though! 🤣
The area you liked so much and said you would like to live in is called "Stary Żoliborz" (Old Żoliborz) and is indeed considered as one of the absolutely best places to live in Warsaw.
Thanks for letting me know 😎 I’m happy that I clearly have excellent taste in places to live if I got rich 💰🤣😂 haha
Actually it's Żoliborz Oficerski
@@grzegorzsieradzki6861 Which is a part of Stary Żoliborz.
A nice video. For some reason, the YT algorithms suggested it to me. ZTM tickets in Warsaw are valid for the entire public transport network, which includes buses, trams, the metro, and urban trains (SKM). It's important to validate your ticket upon entering the vehicle or at the metro station gates.
Similar to Latin and Italian, Polish nouns change their forms based on their grammatical role in a sentence. This is known as declension. In the phrase "Plac Wilsona," the noun "Wilson" is in the Genitive case, indicating possession, much like "Wilson's Square" in English.
Thanks a lot! 😎 Yeh I used a few of the buses as well, just not in this particular video…a very efficient transport system overall 🚇 🚃 🚎 🚊
Ooof nice grammatical info 🇵🇱🤓 love that! I definitely tried my best at the station names for the voiceover narration 😝…on the actual filming day, slightly messy with the names haha 😂 but that’s part of the fun I guess!
@@n1ckburt0n surname Wilson, in Polish might also be: Wilsonem and Wilsonie 🤪
So many options for the good ole Wilson! 😝😃
A big credit for visiting the city and using ZBIORKOM - mass transit, and talking about it.
Thanks very much! 😎 I had a great time doing it 🤩 will definitely be back in the future 🇵🇱
You heard sirens in park Kaskada frequently because at 7:38 the dark gray building is a firefighter school and firefighting department with 4 garage doors, 3 for firefighting squads and 1 for ambulance. Yep You guessed right, I live very close and I know everything about those damn sirens, day and night 🤣
Actually LOL’d 😂 at this comment! Well that certainly explains the sirens!🚨. This must be a nightmare at night 💀 but it does seem like a really great area to live in, so I guess it’s still worth it? I’d probably be having a meltdown if I got woken up all the time though 🤪😅
came across your video and LOVE it! walking down the memory lane, literally and freshly - because just three days ago I came back from warsaw (to NYC) ... brought 3-day tickets with zone1&2, roaming around aimlessly all day every day ... the most wonderful time
Thanks a lot 🤩 I’m so happy you loved the video!
Wow, that’s a very fresh trip 🇵🇱 but sounds as though you spent it extremely wisely getting the day tickets & wandering about Warsaw, glad you had a wonderful time 🥳🚇 any favourite things/parts of the city?
On another note, I went to NYC on a college trip when I was 17, such a fun place! 😍
@@n1ckburt0n Yes! besides the metro, try the trams (next time). many routes but each has its own flavor above the ground ... even a few crossing the river, and passing the stadium ... i also took several ones right on the Poland Independence Day ... amazing energy among young and senior polish ppl!!!
Oh I’d definitely go back and try a tram adventure! 🚃 🇵🇱 I’m sure that would be really fun 😎
I know very little about Warsaw other than what I've seen in a handful of vlogs. But very much enjoyed this tour, hope there's more!
Thanks, Martin 😎🙌🏼 glad you enjoyed it! Yeh there’s more coming, currently editing one on the red line (M2) Warsaw & then all four lines of the Budapest Metro 🇭🇺🚇
When the Metro first opened in 1994 Kabaty station was still surrounded by fields
@@mancubwwa plenty of development then 🌳🏙️ …Letňany station at the end of Prague Metro’s Line C 🔴 is mostly surrounded by fields, the end station differences always interest me 🤓
This was mostly because the metro really needed a technical station to store the trains at, and they couldn't put it anywhere where the area was vastly developed, so they put it on some random fields near the Las Kabacki forest.
1995
@@gallowglas100 right, Ilmy mistake.
OMG! Park Kaskada is where I used to take my dogs for a walk for the last 22 years! Now I live in Luxembourg and really miss it. It’s so cool to see it in your video.
@@jasiekzar Love that! 😍 Yeh exactly, sometimes people will say “Why did you go to ____ and not ____?!” but, as you say, there’s beauty in ordinary places 🌳
Hope you’re enjoying life in Luxembourg! 🇱🇺😎
Of course you were in Woodrow Wilson Square :) President Wilson was for the independent Polish state in 1918, and we are grateful for that! Hey, didn't you miss Politechnika station? :)
Yeh I did skip Politechnika in the video cos I was trying to make sure I could get through the entire line in time 😝 but I do slightly regret not checking out the above ground area of that station now 🙊
@@n1ckburt0n come back in the warm season! Thank you for your videos!
@@StefanMikulski I think that would be a great idea! 😎☀️
Don't be surprised that people tend to watch videos from their own country. This is a psychological topic: we try to see ourselves through others eyes as a form of confirmation for ourselves that we are doing good and our view of the world is correct as others see it the same. For expample: when I watch a person from US visiting Warsaw metro and commenting on it the same way I would do myself, I get the confirmation that my wiev of the world is the same as others. We all like to belong, right?
It is the best when someone outside of our culture, country, group etc confirms it as we instictivly feel that people who live with us in same place could have view of the world distorted as we could have.
That's why you will always get more views from people from that country you made a video in.
That’s definitely an interesting theory 🧠🙌🏼 and I’d agree that’s totally one of the reasons people watch stuff from their own area/country. It would make an interesting study 📖🤓 maybe I should put a poll on the community tab haha
I think it also depends on your specific interests. I barely ever watch anything about the UK 🇬🇧 as I’m more interested in foreign countries 😝✈️
@@n1ckburt0n well...
I like to watch videos of foreigners living in or visiting Warsaw. It's interesting to get a different perspective on things I see every day, and, by the way, I can recommend something to tourists who want to see more than the standard things recommended in guidebooks.
Yeh that’s certainly a good take on it 😎 I almost want to do these metro lines again now knowing all the extra information that locals added into the comments…particularly the M2 line, there’s so much depth to the designs, more than a tourist could know/work out or even probably research 🤩
Podziwiam kondycję. Przeszedłeś prawie całe miasto.
Hahah thank you! 🙏🏻😝😂 I try to mix it up between walking & riding the metro, but yeh Warsaw is a big city and M1 is a long metro line!
20:23 you were very lucky - this old Vagonmash 81 is only riding on mondays wednsdays and fridays only on the M1 line. Also there's only one of them in use - its a historic train that is still in use :)
@@tykotek7927 omg 😱 I didn’t realise there was only one of them in use & only on specific days! Even happier than I saw it now 🤩 so freakin’ cool! 😎
1:15 the mall has a garden on the roof where you can relax and eat something. Good in summer.
Omg that’s such a cool feature, bet that is really great in summer! 🌳☀️
It was not only the residents of Warsaw rebuilding the city after war, Nick, it was whole nation. I remember my mother telling me about special taxes on rebuilding the Warsaw after 1945. And the slogan "Whole nation is rebuilding its capital city". So it was whole nation effort.
@@adventuremapping Thanks for adding that 😎 great that the whole country chipped in to rebuild and restore Warsaw. I wonder if people were happy about the taxes at the time or not 🤔😝 but at least it looks as though that money was well spent. Which part of Poland are you from? 🇵🇱
@@n1ckburt0n I am from south Poland. No, I think people didn't mind these extra taxes. At least it was the case of my mother. Well, everybody knew it was needed.
@@adventuremapping Great that they were happy to help! 😎🙌🏼
10:42 Thomas Woodrow Wilson Square or"platz vilsonaa" in traditional Polish, although lots of Poles learning English at one time, will pronounce "W" in English fashion (Polish "Ł" like Słodowiec - "swodovietz", like English "sword").
Yeh I guess there’s some differences between how people would pronounce the “W” there, based on either Polish language rules vs from the name Wilson 🤓
The “Ł” is really interesting though 😎 Polish is definitely a tough language but v cool too! 👌🏻🇵🇱
@@n1ckburt0n "ł" in "Słodowiec" is not at all like "w" in "sword", as the "w" is silent there :D. "Ł" is always pronounced as "w" in "wiggle" for example.
What a nice and relaxing video this is.
Thanks very much! 😎 Appreciate such a nice compliment 🙌🏼
.. nice film shape mr. Burton..
@@piotrmalak8936 Thanks very much! 😎😃
fun fact: two stations „Ursynów” and „Służew” are covered in mosaics done according to original project from 70's and these mosaics were inscribed onto poland's historical heritage list
@@jobda1211 That’s a great fun fact 🙌🏼😎 very interesting, thanks! 🚇
If your plan is to visit every station along the way it's batter to miss the mall than to miss them all.
lol 😂 good little slogan 😉 I’ll keep that in mind for future videos…of course, I did actually see them all to get from one end of the line to the other…just a couple may be omitted from the video footage 📹 I was trying to get a balance of underground/overground rather than just those video run throughs of all the stations that are already on UA-cam for most metro lines 😎
great editing mate, keep up the good work!
Thanks very much! 😎🙌🏼 I’ve been trying to improve my editing 😍
Someone already explained that "Plac Wilsona" is "Wilson Square", named after 28th President of the US, for his support of Independence of Poland after WW1.
The detail that was missing was that this was a completely new district, suburbs. That's why you had this suburbs vibe when walking around!
There's more! You pronounced "Wilanowska" almost perfectly. We pronounce "W" and "Wi" in Polish differently. And people in Poland didn't actually know English, so they didn't know how to correctly pronounce the name Wilson! They simply pronounce it the way it made sense to them. It's actually a tradition (especially among older citizens) to still say it, like it was "Vilson", just like you would say the word "village".
@@marcins5183 Ahh! 😎 Love that missing detail, makes a lot of sense why it felt like a suburbs type of vibe then 😋
Haha cheers, I tried the best I could with the pronunciations 🫢 sometimes I’m doing the audio narration numerous times and either the Polish word gets slightly messed up or I mess up the smoothness of the English part of what I’m saying 🤣🤪 but we’re getting there! ⬆️ 🥳
19:58 you've took the absolutely quickest way possible bro :DDDD
@@marsjaninzmarsa Woohoo! 🥳🙌🏼 there’s a first time for everything I guess lol
Not sure if it was mentioned by someone already, but between the stations Dworzec Gdański and Ratusz Arsenał there was supposed to be an additional station called Muranów (same as the name of the area), and it was one of two stations that ended up being cut from plans to save on costs during the construction of the original length of the first line. It's apparently supposed to make a comeback in the next few years, filling the quite significant gap distance wise (around 1,5km, 15-20 minute walk) between the two stations. It also means you kinda missed Muranów as an area, which would require a bit more backtracking from Ratusz Arsenał than you already did and it's a bit of a shame as it's a lovely area. I am somewhat biased tho as I live directly on the other side of the street from where the Muranów station was supposed to be :)
@@axing_ Thanks for adding all of that information 🚇🤓 nobody has mentioned any of that yet, very interesting!
It would be cool if Muranów could make a comeback in the plans, and it’d surely give me a reason to come back for another visit 😝 you’re definitely right about the distances between stations, some are much longer than others, but your info about planned stations getting cut makes a lot of sense as to why that is😎
@@n1ckburt0n: What's more-there is the same case for the station between Politechnika and Pole Mokotowskie.
There was the station called "Plac Konstytucji" (Constitution Square) supposed to be built. In the last few years, there have been plans to build these two stations (Muranów and Plac Konstytucji).
I don't know what about Muranów station (finally, Ratusz-Arsenał station was moved further north, and some people say it would be to small distance between Ratusz-Arsenal and Dworzec Gdański stations to fit the additional station there).
But Plac Konstytucji station is likely to be built because it's planned to be a transfer station between M1 and planned M3 metro lines.
I wish I was younger to travel like that. I dreamt of London, went there when I was 19. But the Brits didn't want me there... It was before PL joined EU. I got a stamp in my passport that I can't cross EU borders for 5 yrs, because they thought I worked without permission. My heart broke into million pieces. I never left PL again in my life. UK was my greatest dream since I was a child, I don't know why... like I was born with it. I'm happy for you, that you can travel and enjoy the world. All the best. Greets from Warsaw. P.S. Always a great pleasure for me to hear a beautiful British accent :) (Sorry for my English).
Aww no 😭 that sounds sooo bad, sorry that happened to you! You should definitely try to see some other places if you’re able to 😎
I think it’s important to remember that there are nearly 70 million Brits & we don’t all act the same or think the same…on issues like Brexit etc. it’s very split. I’m sure there are plenty of Brits who would’ve loved to have you there! I have a few Polish friends that live in the UK and they’re great! 😃
Thanks very much, I’m glad you like the accent and the content 😝🙏🏻 I definitely realise how lucky I am to be able to travel to most places fairly easily & so I try to make the most out of it 😇
@@n1ckburt0n I'd love too see Scotland (Ruth Aisling channel here on YT is great, I travel with her virtually :)), I think that UK is the most beautiful island in this world. I wrote poems to UK when I was a teen... so silly. Sigh... Well, maybe next life. Thanx for your kind words. Enjoy your adventures!
Yeh Scotland 🏴 is beautiful. It’s nice that you can at least live some adventures through UA-cam! 😎 Thanks 🙏🏻 many more adventures to come! ✈️ 🚇
@Margitha Chcesz poczuć klimat Londynu w Polsce? Pojedź do Pułtuska. Londyn to taki Pułtusk tylko sto razy większy i dwa razy brudniejszy i bardziej zatłoczony. :)
Niczego nie straciłaś. Londyńskie metro jest zaledwie przyzwoite. A niektóre stacje to taki syf że strach.
You missed important spot next to Warzyszew station - Wolumen farmers' market (Tuesdays, Fridays) :D
Oh no 🙈 I love a good market as well! I can’t actually remember what day of the week this was filmed on 🤣😝
@@n1ckburt0n I work in that market in highly specialized shop with electronics and optics - amazing place - extremely cheap prices and highest quality of food every day, but yeah - full fledged market is on tue/fr - amazing, oldschool vibe. :D
He skipped the entire metro station after Centrum - Politechnika station
Very calming and relaxing video Nick. I’m glad you’re showing my city in a good way:)
Thanks, Janusz! 😃🙌🏼 “calming and relaxing” is such a big compliment 😎 I love videos where I can just watch and feel chilled 🧘🏻♂️.
Warsaw is great 🇵🇱 I’m sure it must be a fun place to live! 🏙️
Nice video :)
Thanks a lot 🤩 happy you enjoyed it!
Loved the Kaskada/Cascada reference xD
@@wazawazazawa Haha 🤣 first person to mention that in the comments 🏆🎶 a moment of fully releasing the randomness that goes through my brain while filming these adventures 🤪😝
After Centrum you skipped Politechnika, in which there is very beautiful mosaic of Warsaw and... Istanbul!
@@menoflowicz Ahh yeh 😭 someone else mentioned that, I didn’t know about it. I did actually go through Politechnika station, of course, it’s just not in the video footage…but would’ve been cool to go outside and see that 🥸 next time! 🚇
Your pronunciation is really great!
Thank you! 🙌🏼😍 This is my new favourite comment 😄 I got an online translator to say all the Polish words aloud & tried to parrot 🦜 them for the audio narration 🥸🥳
Yeah, I am really surprised at how well he was pronouncing Polish names.
Even if it's just repeating the names heard in the app, there are still many difficult to pronounce sounds in the Polish language.
@@prk2543 Thank you! 😎 Yeh it’s still pretty easy to mess them up when trying to narrate smoothly in English + then Polish station name 🤭😋
just to put in perspective: 18:35 not only Old Town was destroyed in around 85%, all of Warsaw was :(
Yeh that’s a very impressive rebuild considering the amount of damage done! 😎🙌🏼
I commute by the M1 every single day and I must point out that you missed the station Politechnika (Technical University) which is my everyday destination and coincidentally the ugliest station we have. You need to take a tour of the M2 since that line has stations that are way more modern and impressive.
Haha 😂 yeh I would’ve passed through it on the train 🚊 but I don’t remember much about it 😝 is there much to see above ground there other than the Technical University?
I’ve already filmed an M2 video…it’ll be uploaded soon 👀 , those stations are definitely a lot more colourful and modern.🙌🏼
@n1ckburt0n The University itself could be a tourist destination. Google "Gmach Główny Politechniki" and check it out yourself. Politechnika is also the closest station to places such as:
Plac konstytucji - giant square surrounded by monumental socialist realist building
Plac zbawiciela - circular plaza surrounded by many cafes and pubs
Koszykowa street - which is full of beautiful architecture and there's the famous Hala Koszyki with many food joints
Pole Mokotowskie - one of the biggest and most beautiful parks in Warsaw (I would argue it's our version of Central Park). It is also the favourite meetup space for students from nearby Technical University.
Łazienki Park, Jazdów Estate and our parliament are also within a short bus ride from the station.
In the underpass at Politechnika station there is a large graphic showing the panoramas of Warsaw and Istanbul. It is made of Turkish handmade tiles, which were a gift from the Turkish side to celebrate the 600th anniversary of mutual diplomatic relations.
@@prk2543 oh that does sound pretty cool 😎😝 I’m sure I’ll visit Warsaw again & see the stuff I missed this time ✌🏼
7:29 you skipped the last of the old trains that served Warsaw since 1995 😭
@@Zackynov8202 Oh no 😭 but that’s the same old train I got on at 20:28, right? 🚊 Pretty sure I saw that one a few times throughout the day 😍
Nice !
Thanks very much! 😎
holly shit you pronounced Stare Bielany perfectly!
@@Void_Creature4 Thanks 🤩🙏🏻 my toxic video narration relationship with Google translate is gonna continue after this comment! 🤣😝
I like Slodowiec station.
The design reminds me pixelized grayscale image 😂
@@Rubeus1000 hahah 🤣 that’s a good one! 🚇
nahhh that was actually true 😂
16:52 These flying horses are pegasi - symbols of poetry/talent. They were created in 2006 as part of an exhibition related to two prominent Polish poets. At first they had monitors inside and stood inside the Krasinski Palace building (one of the seats of the Polish National Library). After exhibition end, monitors were removed and pegasi were moved outside. At first they were to stand for only a year, but they stayed for longer - more than 16 years. A few months ago they were renovated and moved in front of the Library's main building near another Metro station - Pole Mokotowskie
@@Rubeus1000 Oooh very interesting info 🚇 thanks! 🤩
You seem very chill and at least you tried pronouncing some of the station names. Poles love bitching about ourselves and our country. Warsaw for Poland is kind of like London is for England when it comes to the 'type' of people and lifestyle compared to the rest of the country. Many don't like the city, but it really is one of those places where the best thing to do there is what is least done; get lost and walk around. Good on you.
I hope you can enjoy the 'royal' bath park. Shame you didn't come during the summer. The energy is amazing.
Thanks very much! 🤩 Yeh on this particular day I was fairly chill 🧘🏻♂️ (I’m not always that chill tbh 🫢😂) and having a fun time the whole way!
Yeh I can definitely see the Warsaw/London comparison. I do kinda have a love/hate relationship with London each time I go there, depending on what I’m doing and which area etc.
Some of my Polish 🇵🇱 friends did say similar things to what you mentioned about Warsaw & to try the smaller cities instead 😝 I thoroughly enjoyed it though!
Yeh it would be nice to see the city in summer weather ☀️ but at least now I have a good excuse to return 🙌🏼
@@n1ckburt0n I love Warsaw, don't get me wrong. So many parks and things to do for you to relax... it's all about how much time you have for work vs. how much time you have for yourself.
Definitely go to some more cities but, also to smaller towns to do some kayaing or etc. Nature is simple but, great here. Good luck with that!
Oh yeh completely 😎🧘🏻♂️ a good work/life balance is so soooo important! I’ve lived and worked in a few capital cities before & it’s definitely exciting at times but draining at others.
Yeh I will totally go and check out more of Poland 🇵🇱🌳 & get some content for the channel too!
Zatem nie narzekaj, będzie o jednego narzekającego mniej.
@@150jax To nasza kultura i zrobi to teraz.
One of the criticism's of the Warsaw metro system is that it's not truly connected to any of the main long distance train stations. It's just a 7 minute walk from Warszawa Centralna railway station to the Centrum metro station, which I guess is shorter than some transfers within an ostensibly single station in Tokyo for example (I know, not really a fair comparison 😂) but you can't cross that without going out into the elements. The best you can do is walk to the Warszawa Śródmieście station underground, which makes it just 3 minutes under the sky, but still.
@@kFY514 Ahh yeah that’s a really good point 😎 & also, you’re right, on some huge metro systems you can actually be walking for ages to get to something/a connection but you’re still technically in the station or between two 🚶🏻♂️
Are there any plans for M3/M4/M5 to directly connect to a long distance station? 🚉
@n1ckburt0n AFAIK, M3 is gonna branch out of M2 at Stadion Narodowy and its first station from there is gonna be Dworzec Wschodni (Warsaw East train station). Also there's a Dworzec Zachodni (Warsaw West train station) station in the current plans for M5, but than can change 10 times over before it's actually built 😅
One peculiar thing about long distance trains in Warsaw is that almost *all* such trains stop at all three hubs: East, Central and West, in one direction or the other. The exception is some trains that stop at Warszawa Gdańska (connected to the Dworzec Gdański M1 station) instead. This happens mostly when either of the main hubs is being renovated. Which is a lot of the time. 😅
@@kFY514 haha let’s hope they don’t change the plans too many times then 😎😝 looks as though it’s gonna take a while, but I’m excited to see what they do with these new metro lines route-wise and design-wise 🥸🚇🇵🇱
@@n1ckburt0n Gdańska Station is one of the Warsaw smaller railway hubs.
Metro Centrum station will be connected to the underground train station called Warszawa Śródmieście in the next 10 years. There are plans from more than a decade ago to do this but it is combined with a gigantic rebuild and modernization of underground train tunnels and tracs.
Currently in the next 3-4 years 2 new Metro station will be built on M1 line. One between Centrum and Politechnika and the other between Ratusz and Gdański.
Besides metro Warsaw has a quite large 7 city lines of railways which also serves other districts of city as well as suburbs and surrounding cities similar to S-Bahn in Berlin.
I once walked along the entire line (22km) with my friend. Great way to explore the city even if you are a local. The southern stations have modest design due to austerity - they were built in 1980s when Polish economy was in very bad condition. But they can serve as bunkers (cold war) - they have huge steel gates that are still functional and used during flooding rains 😂 See: ua-cam.com/video/Cj-TvK4FGuI/v-deo.htmlsi=PzfmuqWXcGBN7-mg
Great effort walking the entire thing 😎 & yeh I bet even locals would find a lot of new stuff they’d never seen before! Just had a watch of that video link 🔗 very cool 👌🏻🚇
Really interesting video, but I gotta say, fair play for putting in the effort to properly pronounce the names!
@@Krzysiuuu15 Thanks very much 🤩 I knew my Polish friends in the UK would tell me I’d embarrassed them if I got the names wrong 🤣😝
85% of the whole town was destroyed. The old town in particular was completely wiped off the face of the planet. Literally nothing remained but basements and literal mountains of rubble.
Wild isn’t it 😱🤯 the rebuild is insanely good in the old town particularly! 🇵🇱
Well done. Where are you from?
Thank you! 😎🙌🏼 I’m from Middlesbrough, UK 🇬🇧
@n1ckburt0n All the best for you!
Thanks, Marcin 🙏🏻😃 you too!
@@n1ckburt0n That moment when I have never been to England
but I know every city because of the football club 🤣
Haha 🤣 yeh that’s usually the only reason foreigners ever know Middlesbrough! 😝…and even less so after too many years in The Championship rather than the Premier League… ☠️⚽️
It’s not the most exciting town ever, but it’s near the coast 🌊 has some beautiful countryside 🌳 close-by & the people are generally very friendly. 😃
Plac Wilsona means Wilson's square
Got it 😉🚇 very cool station!
THE BRAND NEW METRO-TRANINS WERE MADE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC - BY ŠKODA GROUP
Thanks, Czech Republic & Škoda for these very snazzy new trains! 🚊 🇨🇿
@@n1ckburt0n What does mean "snazzy"??? Google does not know it.... (English or Czech please) = no idea of the meanig (good/positive or bad/negative) - designed and constructed according to polish requests...
🇵🇱❤️🇨🇿
Wawrzyszew/Stare Bielany are the best but it would take at least 5 hours to explore. At absolute minimum
Yeh I’m sure there are plenty of hidden gems around those areas 😎 it would be impossible to complete such a big metro line in one day at that pace though 🏃♂️ 😝
@@n1ckburt0n Road that you took between Wawrzyszew and Stare Bielany is one of my routes to and from work, but i always take a spin on it - always starting from different point - sometimes through nature 2000 preserve of Las Bielański to chill out and feed squirrels, sometimes throug AWF, sometimes through 3 parks from E-S, sometimes from S through ponds to feed ducks. I'm rly lucky SOB to work in that district. Before work i can chill, so i'm mentally prepared for clientele and after work i can take clear my head. I can imagine workin in corpo-hell concrete desert.
bro skipped Politechnika between Centrum and Pole Mokotowskie with the Polish-Turkish mosaic
bro skipped Politechnika cos bro only had so much time to get the full thing done, bro 👊🏻😎🚇
Polish-Turkish mosaic does sound cool though, didn’t know about that 😇 maybe next time 🥳
Reason why people watch vids of their own country is to keep an eye on the facts and stats that people in said vid said, i,e., you.
They will point out if you go wrong.
Haha 😂 this is EXACTLY what I was getting at with those comments I made in the video 👀
I do know a lot of people are also just genuinely interested in what visitors think of their city/country & the algorithm also probably serves up content based on location too sometimes 🤓
I’m trying to improve everything with each set of videos anyway & constructive comments can help with that 🧠😎🚇
Wilsona = Wilson's
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Got it 😉🙌🏼
5:08 You can’t pass like that. Use the pedestrian crossing.
I used the pedestrian crossing 🚶🏻♂️🚦 the camera passed slightly in front to show everyone where to walk 😝🤷🏻♂️
21:01 - We live in some funny times where we still judge those guys as (insert backwards insult here) but we generally won't report them to the police (why? not worth it, too much things to care, etc, as long as kids are safe), but we're not far enough to think what made them "pee" here. (and as much as it might sound as a joke subject, it's very, very, very, serious for thousands of cities and citizens).
I don’t think it’s a serious enough “offence” to run and report them to the police (you’d also have no evidence)👮🏻♂️& a foreign passing tourist isn’t gonna be able to solve any potential underlying cause of that issue unfortunately…but I’m sure social services deployed in the right areas could pick up on these things and try to help 😇
It’s pronounced Vav-shy-shev. The first “sh” is pronounced like J in French. For example “J’adore”. The second like english “sh” in “shop”. And obviously “y” at the end of “shy” is different. It’s like you were saying “i”, but detached your tounge from the upper palate.
@@Selicular lol thanks for the detailed explanation, very cool 🗣️ to be honest, I played the name in Polish from Google translate whilst editing/narrating to copy 🦜 very difficult to narrate smoothly in English and switch to a random difficult Polish word halfway through the sentence or at the end of the sentence 😝🤪
It’s like…imagine saying a Polish sentence aloud and then saying a tricky UK 🇬🇧place name like “Loughborough” or “Aberystwyth” halfway through 😉 your tongue will be all over the palate! 🤣🤭
Never seen anybody refer to it as a blue line, it threw me off
Yeh I heard the locals refer to it as the “first line”…I’m not sure why blue is enough to throw anyone off though (it does also say M1 in the title & intro) 😝 every metro map shows the two lines in blue & red and every station name sign on this line uses blue. 🔵🚇
Please rember one thing, there was not nazis, but only germans!
@@kubiq2854 In English we use the terms “Nazi troops” and “Nazi Germany” to refer to their actions during that time…and this is an English language video 😉
It is a blue line ... only on the map
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Well, yeh…I’m used to referring to lines by colour cos I lived in Lisbon 🇵🇹(where they’re named by colour) and in Seoul 🇰🇷 (where they have a mix of names/numbers but it’s so much easier to use the colours if you’re taking a big journey using like 4 lines 😜😂).
I also put in M1 🔵 in the title/description/video/tags so…😛🚇
German not Nazi destroyed Warsaw ;)
We use the terms “Nazi troops” and “Nazi Germany” to refer to their actions during that time period. It’s an English language video & that’s how we refer to it 🙂
Baby you cant get lost Warsaw only ond metro line 😂
@@azbestusa8107 I have no idea what this comment means 🤣 but I still love it, babyyyy 👶🏻 🍼
I visited Warsaw and used the metro ! Is clean and do the job but really nothing special ? You can see was build with low budget ! Also is very noisy
I quite liked it tbh, the above ground of each area does add to the experience though 😎🌳…agree on the noise lol it was quite hard to hear the announcements & film the video if there were trains anywhere near 🔈🚊
Do you have any metro systems that you prefer? 🌎 🚇
@ if you have chance try and have look Sydney Australia metro is just amazing
I’ve actually been to Sydney & used the trains there…it was back in 2016 though 🚂 their new metro system looks so good! I guess if the channel really takes off I’ll be able to go back there & check it out 😝🇦🇺🚇
@ Yes the new metro system is back to the future with amazing design of station !
Yeah central part of the first line was build with a very limited founding in the 90s
it always pisses me off when someone says the Polish language is hard to pronounce, and they haven't even spent a minute to learn the basics. It's all about how you pronounce the letters you read. In Polish every letter sounds practically the same in every word and you always read it, not like in English. For example Warszawa you pronounce like Varshava, it's not hard, buy you need to learn the basics that 's' with 'z' is always "sh" and 'w' is always 'v'. To illustrate the point more clearly, I learned the Cyrillic alphabet in 5 minutes while sitting in a Lviv restaurant, because I didn't know what to order. It was much easier when I could read this of course, because I know polish, but my point is, its not so hard.
Erm…I tried my best with it in the audio…including listening to it online before narrating. It’s never gonna sound 100% correct to a native speaker, same as when foreigners pronounce “Loughborough”, “Leicester”, “Edinburgh” etc. I kinda find the differences or mistakes sweet.
If UA-cam videos “piss you off” that much, might be best to find something else to do ✌🏼
@ you did good. Im pissed all the time like a proper polish person. You didnt understand, culture difference 😅
lol no it’s not just you 😂 British people can be very grumpy too 😝 this video was probably the most chirpy and upbeat I’ve been in any of my videos on the channel!
I do get that my pronunciation of some of the stations wasn’t that great on the filming day 🤪 but I did try in the audio narration to get the station names as accurate as possible 🤓
To be honest with you, when filming, I’m concentrating on what I’m saying, where I’m going, how I’m shooting the video, looking at maps, taking photos for potential thumbnails etc.
For example try saying a sentence in Polish 🇵🇱 but halfway through throw in a difficult English place name, such as “Loughborough”, and then switch back into Polish 🤪 it can really throw off how smooth your sentence sounds aloud.
wARSZAWA JEST PIEKNIEJSZA D bERLINA; WOW ZGADZAM
Haha yeh Warsaw is very nice indeed! 😎🇵🇱
POLSKA JEST PIEKNYM KRAJEM MAZURY; GORY GDANSK NIEMIECKI ; CZY POLSKI
🇵🇱 is a very beautiful country!
German troll! "German Gdansk" Gdansk was found by poles/lechs in ancient times and had it for 700 years. Germany destoyed 95% of Gdansk and got rebuild by poles
What’s your favourite thing about Warsaw? 🇵🇱🚇
safe city and friendly ppl (cold on the outside, warm on the inside) ... not too big to have nice and clean and walkable streets, yet not too small to have everything you need
@glenlu5832 I’d agree on all of that definitely 😎🙌🏼
very walkable city, there's always something to do, a lot of places to go to. people are mostly nice and the public transport will take u anywhere. I really enjoy living here
@Rojz-yt6yt fully agree on all of that! 😎🇵🇱🙌🏼
illegal imigrants
18:34 Not Nazi but Germans . Please don’t us Nazi ! It’s completely wrong ! That sound like some people from Naziland but it’s not such a country . Please stop spread nonsense . Thanks ❤❤
Google “Warsaw old town destroyed”, every result says “Nazi Germany” or “Nazi troops”. That’s how it’s referred to in English & this is an English language video.
If anything, the term “Nazi troops” or “Nazi Germany” is used to separate German ideas/action at the time from German ideas/action now…to not associate modern Germany with those actions (because we like modern Germany).
Maybe stop commenting “nonsense” before doing some research 😉
Thanks ♥️