I MADE IT to Eastern Europe! Slovenia, Croatia and Slovakia
and this is it good morning guys from Padua here in Italy it is Tuesday morning, Wednesday morning it's nine o'clock it's 22 degrees outside and it's a fantastic weather i've only stayed in this little city because I'm driving towards Croatia so I stayed here one night, Airbnb really nice room I had the entire apartment to myself it was €33 only and the internet was insane so I got some work done last night so, now i'm just standing here in front of the supermarket having a bit of breakfast just having um some yogurt power bar croissant and banana and that was only three euros and 70 cents so cheap morning today i thought i would take you with me on the road as i go towards Trieste which is the last city in italy i will be in before crossing into slovenia and then croatia in one day and today i kind of want to talk about how is it to be traveling alone here in europe also about how is it to solo touring because it's not as easy as it may seem but now let me have my breakfast and let's get on the road! Let's go! Ah, yeah... So, this is these kind of checkpoints you have all over Italy every time you go to a highway you need to go to one of these and you get a ticket that looks like this and then you're off on to go on the highway and then next time you go into a smaller city you go past a checkpoint like this again you have to return the ticket and then you have to pay the taxes for driving on the highway all right guys we have almost made it to Trieste, the cool thing about this city Trieste is that right now i'm about to drive along the coastline, because look at this... ah whoa! was that surfboards i saw out there wow look how beautiful it is and actually i came from over there ish so i've been driving around like this because Padua is right that way and Croatia and slovenia is that way wow it's beautiful here! I can't wait to see the city let's go check out tristay tree? I have to look that up on google translate see what it says trista trusty trundstone tray tray what are they... okay, let's go! so guys i just spent one hour short, i just made a short stop here for like an hour trying to find a hotel in this area but it seems like this is the worst possible time i could arrive to Trieste because everything is fully booked it's the very high season now everybody is on their summer vacation so it's like the hotels that are left are between three and four hundred euros per night so i have found one place with bed and breakfast which actually looks really nice but it's 150 euros for one night and tomorrow i am leaving i'm going to croatia so now the plan is to go to the breakfast see what kind of deal i can get there and if that isn't good then i will go to the hostel and that will be it for today and... the bnb is in there... okay, let's see if we can park right out in front and see what the room will cost... nope! no rooms available let's check the next one all right just have another two hotels also fully booked now we're going to the hostel to see how that looks like it should be here on the right side so let's just park here... i don't know what it is guys but
i just had a bad feeling about this hospital it looked fine inside but i'm only one and a half hour away from the place i'm gonna be staying in croatia tomorrow so i just decided now we're gonna cross into Slovenia and then straight into Croatia... let's get back on the road! truly is a day of struggle right now i took the wrong turn again and it's trying to reroute showing me the right way but i have no internet connection so trying to find that and you know at situations like this you simply just have to think oh well another small obstacle i have to get by i get past because if you start getting super angry and frustrated about this it's gonna ruin your experience, I just have to enjoy them sitting here in the sun it's a beautiful day... at least it's not raining, right? all right guys so we are here in Dragonja in Slovenia and about to cross into Croatia i did not expect the border to be like this it seems like everybody's being stopped you can see here in Slovenia in Croatia so yeah fingers crossed that everything is going to be okay ciao so basically i just needed to show my passport and he said "Hansen!"... he's probably a subscriber! that's why he knew or because he looked at my passport so that was it guys pretty easy we are now inside of Cro Atia! oh and there's a landing strip right there that's why i had problems with the drone flying down there ten minutes left guys and i can see it right there at the tower, Rovinj! Jesus! Croatia is beautiful here wow so beautiful! all right guys i got the room it was not easy it was the last hotel room in all of Rovinj... i booked it 200 euros and you know my room is already a mess just want to show you it's quite small but everything i needed had a mini bar with some snacks and stuff i already took... small bathroom
perfect! already a mess but this is amazing perfect view to the ocean and my own little balcony so yeah it's definitely pricey but i think it's perfect so now i'm gonna go down to the street just show you guys how the streets of or looks like and then i think we gotta end it here for today all right guys out of the hotel and i'm walking here in the small streets of Rovinj i'm almost down by the water now and i just want to show it to you because it is actually such a beautiful town so but let me just show you because i'm here right now and it is gorgeous and then here next to the marina you have all the restaurants so all the families are coming down here at night time for either dinner or just a glass of wine or of course some Gelato, some ice cream... so cozy and you also have the big big boats laying over here in the marina that can't be cheap but quite a decent place to have your boat laying around if you ask me good morning guys it is friday morning here in beautiful Croatia and Rovinj slept inside of the old city park here last night and yesterday this square was covered in people and this morning it's just completely empty so now i just want to get some footage here from the harbor and then we're gonna figure out what to do today, so let's go! so guys it's going to be a long ride today because i actually have to drive 350 kilometers to get to Bratislava and that is currently saying three hours and 49 minutes but now i'm at a congestion point what a beautiful porsche even though it is a boxer i do enjoy porsches they are just beautiful cars that is definitely one of my dream cars to own one day all right guys we are driving into Hungaria now okay dobro desley to hungary so the croatian slovenian and hungarian language is so similar they all, the both good morning and the good evening start with dobro or dobra and it looks like this is the border from hungaria into slovakia, this is an interesting border crossing... it basically looks like something that's just used to be something and now it's just nothing!... very nice bike oh it was another ducati monster from 2007, the exact same that is so cool in blue though it does look super cool nice and with white wheels that's awesome let's follow this guy arrive to bratislava and the first thing that meets you is just buildings and buildings and building blocks of like uh apartment box that's what it's called excited to see how it looks inside the city, looks a bit more downtown bratislava have monument there on the bridge very nice and then you have that castle up there on the hill wow that's beautiful that has to be some kind of castle museum and then you have the big river here on my right wow so cool all right guys i've arrived here in the capital of slovakia Bratislava, it's beautiful city with around half a million people living here and i just arrived now here at the crown plaza in the middle of the city and the reason why i chose this hotel is because it's close to the old square which is where all the restaurants all the bars bars are and it's supposed to be really beautiful so now i've checked in i just had a shower washed my clothes which is now hanging in the window and now i'm gonna go to the streets i'm planning to show you guys a bit more of Bratislava here, tomorrow since i will be staying two days but for now let's just go and check out how it looks like in old town let's go! i actually thought i had gotten a really good deal with this hotel because it was only 82 for the night with breakfast which is considering my other days a pretty good deal but parking is 25 euros per day which it did not say on a quota of course so yeah not as cheap as i thought it would be but i am heading towards denmark now so i don't have too many more days with these kind of expenses so now i feel like it's okay and i realized the biggest casino in Bratislava is in my building so i will be gambling tonight i haven't done that in a long time but unfortunately i can't bring the camera and that's not allowed it is expensive 25 euros a night for parking but i think it's worth it um it's actually underneath the hotel so i don't have to worry at all about the motorcycle so that is pretty nice but yeah right here behind me is the plaza and as it says out here Banco casino it's been i haven't been to a casino since i was in las vegas so i'm excited about that at first sight Bratislava looks like a city that has a lot to offer actually it's not as charming looking as Nice is for example or bologna i've been in um but you do have these kind of old style buildings but then right next to you have a completely new apartment building just a great block which is not so charming but... yeah it looks like there's
plenty of things to do here, hopefully they have some good food because i'm just starving and i think that i have surprised me a lot that i haven't seen in indonesia a lot or in general i didn't know they were still popular is these electronic roller blades skaters scooters i'm not sure what they're called but i've seen a lot of those in italy and france and yeah they are here in slovakia too they must be popular here as well and i think i am walking on a place where i'm not supposed to walk uh on the tracks of the train so i'm just gonna go to the other side of the street before i get run over whoops all right i do take that back as soon as you get inside of like the old town here you do have a lot of old buildings in different colors green blue yellow it does look really pretty and the fun thing is as soon as someone drives with those electric scooters into the old city it automatically says like you're driving into a speed zone you have to slow down and then it limits the speed so they can't be like blasting through these nice cozy streets that's kind of nice... and kind of like in italy and france you have these small streets with plenty of small restaurants small bars and actually the city of Bratislava is very famous for its nightlife as well and you can easily see a lot of the places i just came from there is a lot of bars and there's supposed to be a lot of big nightclubs here as well so it seems like i have arrived here at the main square in basislava but one thing i will say is there's such a big difference between what is old what is pretty what is not what is new for example on this side i have a nice building old-fashioned style and on the other side i have what used to be a nice old building but it now covered in graffiti and completely broken and this is in the middle of the city something like this i don't know should it be restored or should it be kept like this anyway it's an interesting city and as soon as i get here to the main square it's so beautiful you have running water flowers plenty of people here on the street eating at the cafes and you have that nice cozy feeling so i'm sure i'm gonna find a nice cafe to find something to eat and this is it this is the old town city center square really beautiful and actually quite a lot of people more than i expected so i see a really nice cafe over here i'm gonna try and see if i can get something to eat here and i just noticed the sprinklers here behind me that is genius i hope that it's water because it's hot here and not uh Covid disinfective spray but yeah let's head to the restaurant and see what you can get to eat in Bratislava and how much it costs all right guys so i found a place and today i couldn't be bothered looking too much so i basically went on google maps i do this a lot and i went and found a place called gato mata... Gatto Matto! yeah that's what it's called it has ton of good reviews so i thought i'll try this out i was lucky to even get a table because it's 6 30 now but they say at seven o'clock it's fully booked so i didn't get a proper table but i'm sitting in their kind of lounge section which is perfectly fine i just want a glass of wine and some dinner so uh thank you very much and yeah let's see what they can offer so guys i just have a chat here with Marik who is the general manager here at the Gato Mato and Marik why is this place so popular because i saw online that it has so many good reviews so why why do you think this place is so popular? For me the important things is the family family are culture of these places this concept started 15 years ago my cousin her family with her mother but after right after five or six years i will continue yeah because we need some more energy yeah somebody's gone you know as a mother and uh, after the covid times... We're preparing for this new concept, and the new styles... and I think you will some more for your video...
Fantastic! Yes! definitely i will show you guys the restaurant and tonight you have a special concert here with uh campari right yes tonight we'll be preparing some uh Campari night I hired some bartender Tony, a highly successful here in the country he prepares classic drinks from the Campari and also has nice style for the customer.... and it's it's always good to have a good looking bartender and a good-looking receptionist right? i'm going to be here you're awesome i'll go and check out the food thanks a lot buddy thank you i appreciate it thank you so a thing i also wanted to mention today is a struggle for many people when you're traveling alone like this is going to a restaurant by yourself honestly this has always been so hard for me but if you're one of those people that also think it's difficult i always felt like if i'm in alone alone in a restaurant that everybody's looking and feeling like oh that's so sad but you know it's not like that to be honest with you no one cares if you're eating there alone or not so if you feel the same way as i did my advice to you is just to like just do it and maybe find a table by the corner or by wall or something like that but just go ahead and do it all right guys that's gonna be it here for tonight in Bratislava what a fantastic restaurant fantastic staff and i like the whole thing that it was a family business that the mother started it and now the son and the cousin is taking over so fantastic food if you ever get to bratislava it is highly recommended and i'm not just saying that because I just stayed there but it was really really good but now i'm gonna head back to the hotel and we're gonna continue tomorrow because there's a lot of beautiful sights here in Bratislava that i want to show you so i will see you tomorrow and good night! so guys i am back here in the streets of Bratislava it's difficult to find nasi goreng special, yeah? Here we have many! Oh really?
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