I meet the people of Mosul Danger ?
morning my friends, from the old city of mosul once again, for the second video in mosul, the video with life this time, well though where i am is not very very lively, but you can have a view from here, over uh the tigris river, the bridges being rebuilt, and some... quite a common scene here in mosul a common scene of uh, of the destruction of the war but in this video we will not, we will not uh explore more destruction and now it's a normal day, it's not friday anymore, and we will see if we can discover the markets and if we can see a lively mosul, so join me for this adventure in the markets of mosul and look at that, i don't know if it was a mosque or... that looks like an old minaret, i don't know, and there is a playground for kids, kind of not in a good shape and we are in the middle of the market for furnitures, for beds and cradles picture, picture beautiful this is for coffee, coffee coffee okay, oh beautiful sword, look at that all the... i don't know how you call it, the pots for coffee here, okay okay, i guess maybe that's the father okay okay i don't understand so he sells coffee beans and pots 1920 very old so he says that this machine dates back from 1920, so it's 100 years old english, oh from the english, wow, that's incredible amazing it dates back from the english occupation basically that's uh coffee, coffee inside, coffee so here he's drying the coffee and uh, this is for roasting right, cooking oh yeah turn oh gas oh okay, okay okay oh okay okay okay okay okay so he's roasting the coffee basically with a 100 years old machine, okay thank you, very nice from here... so the gas is coming from here, all the way to inside, oh wow okay very nice
very good, thank you okay thank you my dear, okay so we've seen a 100 years old machine, english machine roasting coffee, let's continue the visit of the market which started very well, hi, okay good good, france it's really always funny, as i told you before, like 20 minutes ago i passed by here without the camera, i just walked, i think i kind of look foreign here, i think people know that... as soon as they see me most of people realize that i am a foreigner, but no no one oh there is an army guy, no one was saying anything, but now, with the camera it's like everybody's friendly, it's very funny okay so the army guy is just behind me, so i won't turn the camera, wow maybe let's try some fish how much so one for 5000 can i have one for this, one for 3000 one like this let's go get some fish, for 5000, it's been a while i didn't eat fish, i had masgouf when i entered in in zaho, but let's have some smaller fish here oh nice, so they give you as always olives, bread water water, and here is my fish very nice, very happy to eat fish, okay i changed table for the light let's have some of the olives oh look at that, fantastic really good small bread that's obviously a river fish very good okay thank you, very good okay let's continue the... hello, hi how are you, good what are you doing in my shop yeah filming the fish, yeah this fish is the best fish in mosul, best fish in mosul yeah, very good, okay don't have bones, don't have bones, oh don't have bone, yeah it's true, actually i just had one, it has no bone yeah, these have bones, oh these have bones, this live in the river, and this lives in the pool really so this is no bone because it's in the pool, yeah oh okay and what's the name of the fish, this jiri, okay and my feet are getting wet, you are welcome in my city, yeah thank you, and this is catfish, huh yeah yeah okay see you later, let's keep exploring the markets, the fish markets as soon as you switch on the camera, very funny, so you can see here a lot of fish, and wow, masgouf getting cooked, the floor is all wet, my feet are already completely wet wow so many fishes getting cooked here, look at this one here, oh very nice so it looks like a lot of people like to eat fish here in mosul anyway, let's uh, let's go on the other side, and let's dive in the indoor market so, what is uh surprising also here in mosul is, basically there is a lot of military presence for safety reason here in iraq, but in mosul even more, even like that's why i was cautious with filming outside on the street, because there are army guys everywhere, i guess the war is still not...
it's still very close to here, maybe 30 40 50 kilometers, i don't know exactly how far it is, but it's still quite close, and you can actually feel it in the city, in the sense that most people are very friendly, but still sometimes you have the feeling that some people look at you in like... what the hell are you doing here, wow look at that, picture, picture yeah and when i arrived basically i saw also a lot of... well every day basically i see some like military cars with uh guys in the back, arrested, i don't know if they display them around, or i don't know, it's a bit weird but you can see that the situation is probably not... still not the best around here
good good salaam alaikum i don't understand but it's safe enough for tourism to restart slowly okay let's keep exploring the market soap shops always very nice soap shops, it's more quiet around here... there is an army guy people look at me like what the... no but that's for the camera now let's go to where i had a very quick lunch in the last video, uh it was a small market nearby, so i just want to explore this small market, have a bit of street food there, and i think that will be the end of this uh quick second video here, to show you normal life... how mosul is recovering from the dark days, the very recent dark days of the isis occupation okay here we are at the market, at the other market, uh but it looks it's different from the other day let's see if we can find some street food at least, because they had a dessert i wanted to show you, but maybe it's gone so there there is one guy selling fruits it looks like bad luck, the other day just here there was a small market with a guy selling a very nice dessert, and uh but he's gone, the market is not here anymore bad luck, look at that camera how are you, fine sorry, no arabic okay, so this guy wants to show me something let's see what he wants to show me picture, picture it looks like that's a bird market, but there are not many birds so you can see that's all cages for birds, but uh but they are all empty and here there are some birds, and they don't like me, it looks like they are afraid of humans probably rightfully okay, that's done with the... no it's okay, it's okay i think he was saying a price for a bird, i imagine, but uh no, i don't need a bird, okay but it's interesting, oh yeah and i remember something i wanted to tell you, that i forgot to tell you in this video, it's actually very funny how the... funny, the dialect of arabic...
i know very very very little arabic, but still i can notice that the dialect of arabic here in mosul is very different from what you... from from uh from the one in baghdad, and in the south of iraq, because just for example to say how are you, usually they say um kifak or keifalik but here, they say chawa nak which is very closem very similar to chawani of uh... that's what the kurdish say, it's very funny that even just by the sentence how are you, you can really see that uh the language here is very different and it's much more linked, the arabic here is much more linked to kurdish, than the arabic and southern iraq which channel, i don't understand what is he saying which TV channel, youtube what is this okay okay i need to... let's go to see what this one has to show us so this is the video with the locals in mosul so when someone tells us to go somewhere, we just follow come on take picture of this, okay nice okay okay okay i think he wants me to film the area so people see it on the video on youtube, and people come to buy oh good okay, so you're filming, all right okay okay okay thank you, so you're doing this yeah, furniture okay so they are... you're welcome so they are uh manufacturing furniture here, just behind the main street, very nice okay okay let's continue, let's continue the visit so i've lost my guide, he left with a potential customer i guess camera youtube youtube, push me no, no okay no, no okay, all right, this way i go this way no, it's okay, i am done okay let's go out okay so i escaped there, i don't know, probably it's nothing but i didn't have a very good feeling but right in front of me there is an ice cream shop, let's see if we can finish the video with an ice cream there is ice in the bottom okay let's have the the ice cream which is a very industrial, and i have some kids following me now it's melting very fast, and it's uh well very industrial okay so that... so that was like eating pure chemicals, ah sorry
not so nice, the ice cream, i can't say it was very good, but i guess that will be the end of this video, so see you in another city, for the next adventures, ciao guys
2022-07-01 02:03
