My TRAVEL SCRATCH MAP Every Country I've Visited
hello guys and welcome back to the channel it's Peter here I hope you all have a great start of the new year I thought I will get myself a little late Christmas present is a scratch map of the world I think I scratched a little bit too much of this area whatever and the reason for doing this is to see how many countries I have visited already in a fun and interesting way also by doing so you might as well learn a little bit more about me and of course I want to see how many countries I still need to visit okay so we need some rules for there are some people who say that you have to be in the country for at least 24 hours to count it as a visit I think I will do it a little bit more relaxed than this and for me just stepping down on the country soil is enough to count it as a visit so it doesn't matter if I stayed for an hour or 24 hours I will count that as a visit of the country and we'll scratch it off the map I think it's only one country that would otherwise not be scratched from the map if I would draw to the the country in a car without stopping that would not count as a visit but as long as I stop anywhere in the country and get out of the car that would count and I can scratch it off and with that we can start I have some coins in here I have 10 pens and a one p for the smaller countries I think the best way to do it would be in a chronological order from the first ever country I visited to the last and with that we have our first country and and that's Slovakia that's my home country where I come from and actually I was born in Czechoslovakia as it used to be called czechoslovak socialistic Republic AKA CH SSR country was under Communist Regime we lived in the north part of the country for the first 4 years and later we moved to Bratislava where I stayed for 21 years I basically went through all my schools and education in there we can scratch our first country Slovakia in 1986 I was 7 years old at time and it was my first holiday we went to Yugoslavia it was my first country that I ever visited ELO the country no longer exist it's splits so we've been in the part of this Croatia and we've been on marara Riviera and it's on the Adriatic Sea there's a couple of first for me when I've been on Tad holiday I learn how to swim and my brother almost drowned so fun time I also remember having a Cornetto ice cream for the very first time also my mom wanted me to try pizza for the first time but as a 7year old I was not really impressed and refused to even try it but we can scratched Croatia as our second country so let's scratch Croatia I think about one or two years later my second visited country still as a kid I was I think about 8 n years old I don't really remember it was Hungary and we went to hios SL hungaro Spa Aqua park it was on the Easter P of the Hungary not far from Romania borders so we went there again as a family with another family friend of ours there was loads of water slice they have a huge pool with artificial waves I also remember I found 24 in on the road outside of the water park third country Hungary we can scratch that off right away next country is I think Austria I think that is after the communism regime already fell because the I remember the borders opened and you can suddenly freely travel they started organizing these one day trip to Austria to Vienna cuz Vienna was like 1 hour from Bratislava it was perfect for one day trip and we joined these group tours it included shopping tour of the sh and Brun Palace and uh at the end of the day it was a visit of the tee Park so as a kid I wanted to go to the team Park and was not as impressed with the shopping and some palas with some G Gardens but that was my first time I've been in Austria so we can scratch off the Austria [Music] next next is the Czech Republic first time I've been to Czech Republic I think was during the school time it's been like a summer working trip somewhere behind prag so it was quite a long way we've been for 2 weeks that was my first visit later on I visited Czech Republic for anime convention but that was when I was a bit older because I remember I was driving in a car so I already had a driving license by that time and I've been at different places in Czech Republic I've been in berno I've been near zyo borders from work when I work in UK drove couple of times to Czech Republic when I was driving home from UK to Slovakia so yeah I can scratch it off as a next country so that's country number five year is now 2005 I had full-time job that was in a game development company and it was my first job ever I've been working there for 2 years I I learned a lot it was pretty amazing job I was working as a 3D artist I work on Conan the Barbarian on PlayStation 2 original Xbox and a GameCube and after that in 2005 my brother decided to go to UK with his uh friend so after three months they've been in UK I joined them as well they already rented the whole house and that's where I left Slovakia and arrived to Leicester in UK got the same job as my brother and worked in a walker crisp Factory packing crisps I had a rare opportunity there as well to taste hot crisps as they come from the oven I stayed there for about 1 year before I decided to move to London so we can scratch the uh UK as a whole so after a year I decided I want to move to London so I found a new job and I was working for a stocktaking company and I worked every day different place in UK so one day we went Southport the next next day we went to southw somewhere worked there for a day came back third day we worked in central London and all we did was taking stock so we went there either one two three people with the scanners and we basically scanned all they had in the stock including their store room then we downloaded all the data to the computer and somebody finalized the report and send it to them and this company was doing the stock taking for many different brands and many different companies across the UK and we even been abroad from this work because this company had some contracts from from the brands that have their shops in Germany we've been Berlin for a few days we've been in Czech Republic even been to Paris and France from work and that is something I've been very excited about because there is that anime that I've seen it's called the roast of versales that is set in France before and during French Revolution that I really really enjoyed it follows the life of Mari and toet so when I had the opportunity to go to the France from Paris completely for free because this was a fully paid trip from work I was start getting very excited because I've seen the opportunity to visit the versales which is exactly what I did the first two days we were quite busy we finished something afternoon and I didn't have too much time left to go to the versales I did the AFL Tower and I explored a little bit of the lover and other areas on the very last day we finished very early it was not even 11:00 and we already finished we've been doing this very Posh brand Barberry and everything in that store is like crazy EXP expensive from few hundred to few th000 but we finished before 11:00 and our flight home was in the evening so that was perfect opportunity I hope on the train it's about 40 minutes ride by train and then suddenly I was there in front of the huge Palace and beautiful gardens and I was walking there in a it was amazing beautiful I recognize lots of these places from these Ros of we siles anime and that was my first time in Paris and I've been there many times after that I been there maybe two three times on my own with car so can scratch off the France as well I've been in London for almost one year after that I finally find a job and I was looking for all these two years for another game development company this time it was called Evolution Studios and they were based in rorn so I had to move out of London and another friend of mine who I also work in a game development company in Slovakia used to live there as well so we started living together in Manchester and that was about 2006 7 something like that so at that time I also started going home by car I've been I think two three years in UK so I decided to give it a try and go home by car for the very first time and that's also how I cross to Belgium so Belgium is one of these countries that I actually never been to anywhere except just cross the country but I did stop in the car park a couple of times I passed uh across the bruel many times and once I passed even uh around the ANP but I never went to the city I only stopped on a car park when I needed a toilet or need to take a fuel but according to my rules I can scratch that country off so let's get rid of Belgium as a next country and we need to get rid of the Germany as well because we've been there from the work from UK I forgot about that so but I also crossed the Germany on the way home so we getting rid of Germany as well so I started working in rorn it was for the another game development Studio we were working on a MotorStorm franchise for PlayStation 3 and in particular it was Motor Storm Pacific Rift and when that game was finished the leadership of the company paid us trip to Netherlands so we went to Amsterdam for I think 3 days and I think that was my only time that I visited uh Amsterdam in Netherlands I quite enjoyed the visit it was a very interesting City with lots of these canals and of course the famous red light district we had like a paid Excursion by the boat we went for dinner to some kind of floating restaurants in there it was quite nice trip for 3 days we can scratch of Amsterdam because I've been there from work I even cycled from Manchester and do a little while camping over 3 weeks all the way to the jono GRS and visited the most northern point of the UK Mainline it was pretty crazy adventure I remember out of these 3 weeks cycling two weeks was raining nonstop so was pretty fun trip I think the Europe is done by now and I started going on holidays so we're going to move to the Caribbean next because I've been in Cuba in 2009 I actually been three times in Cuba first time in South Cuba near huin City it was in the place called galaka which means protect the cow or something like that and the beach was called pla Esmeralda and the resort was called Sol Rio De Luna and marz and it was an absolutely amazing holiday that time the beach was absolutely stunning we've been there for 2 weeks I think it was only three star resort we did couple of Tours as well from there we've been in the whole Guin City on the tour as well as swimming with dolphins and eating a lot second time in 2015 this time we've been somewhere in the middle in the central Cuba on the north on the island of Kyo Coco it was a huge island there was one bridge that is connecting the Kaio Coco with the mainland Cuba there was like a bunch of resorts on that islands and there was like a three bus that they had uh going from all the resorts so you can open on the bus and just go check out the other Resorts they had some kind of deals between the resorts so you as a guest in one you can basically spend the all day in any of these other Resorts the resort V day was called I think Melia jardines Del re and that one was a brand new resort that just open like one month ago before we went there it was a fstar resort so everything was absolutely topnotch in Resort everything was brand new we also took the tours couple of Tours outside of the island and uh experienced the mainline Cuba in t area he also didn't rent any car in Cuba for the second time but it was still pretty amazing [Music] holiday hey hey moving on that three bus we've seen these speed boats it was like a little sign that saying like a speed boat right so we stopped there we hop off the bus we went to check it out and but we decided go for it I remember and that was the best experience in Kuba I had these speed bats was really really fast and I really had a time of my life that was amazing speed B in Cuba and Kaio coko best experience in Cuba for me and the last time we've been there in 2017 the famous vados trip on the northern part of the country and of course that was close to Havana and I really really wanted to rent the car this time and go explore haana but I remember Luda didn't want to rent the cart at time and so we decided to basically just uh go on a tour it was still pretty good full day tour with very packed itinerary we've been to the famous writer Ernest Hemingway's house faia visited very Grand looking Christopher Columbus cologne Cemetery explore the San Carlos Fortress complex with huge cannons overlooking Havana as well as ventured into the Old Havana having lunch in a local restaurant and were're driven around in all Cuban cars and then having some free time to run around on our own before we return back to the San Carlos Fortress for a Canon firing in the evening this was like a proper tourist trap as I think every single tour that was in Havana today ended up here for the show after the dark but the bank was still pretty cool and very loud nonetheless so Varadero was pretty cool place I also did the paragliding in there motorized paragliding that was a bit scary as well and that was a beautiful view of the entire stream of the Varadero from [Music] above so that's the cube experience I really love Cuba we've been uh I've been there three times and I could go again anytime but if I would go again to Cuba I would probably go uh not as a package holiday but I would probably go on my own and do some exploring on my own instead of going as a packaged holiday nothing wrong with the package holiday especially if you get for a good price but yeah that's how I would do Cuba if I would go again so CU of the map starts scratching from here as in Varadero in Havana that was the closest I ever been to United States next country that we have is a very special it's one of those countries that is usually on a people bucket list and it's Maldives Maldives or Maldives or how do you call it it's been in December 2011 just before Christmas we didn't stay for the Christmas we just left I think one day before Christmas we've been there for one week and I had in my room this a huge panoramatic poster about my bed and that I bought somewhere years ago that featured the island of FAL hoi from Mal Dives and I never in my life even thought about even dreamed about that I will one day be standing on that same island of FAL hoi which has these long palm trees that was like almost horizontally and then going straight up that was featured on that poster and suddenly I had the opportunity to go and we absolutely went for it it was the amazing time in uh malds the waters and the beaches was absolutely pristine and it was the best snorkeling ever and that FAL hoi Beach had the reef just like 5 m of the beach so you could just walk like 5 m to the water your stick your head to the water and you could see the reef so many colorful fishes and flying in these kind of formations all Direction it was crazy I never seen so much sea life in the water before Maldives are completely another level and if you ever had an opportunity Unity to go I cannot recommend it enough and it was also very cheap for malds at least because normally this holiday can cost like a thousands of pounds and I think we had it under 1,000 for one week cannot recommend enough beautiful beautiful country and the [Music] beaches next is the Dominican Republic I've been twice the first visit was about July August in 2013 and we went to the north part of the country called Samana and the hotel was Bahia Principe Grand kakoa the whole resort was built on a cliff so you had a beautiful view but it didn't have direct access to the beach so if you wanted to go to the beach you have to take a lift beaches in the Dominican Republic are all public which is very different than in Cuba also the beach on T Resort not as pristine clean as in other parts where we've been the water was a little bit more greenish color and the whole beach has a little bit strange smell in there but the best part of this resort was the pool they had on the cliff and most people from the hotel spent the time up there where you had beautiful view and this was the first holiday where we actually rented the car and there comes a very funny story as well so yeah we arranged the car for a few days we finally got the keys of the car and before we went to collect the car we decided to go and get our SIM cards so we had internet on the phone we went to collect the keys I sit to the car and I'm looking at it and it was an automatic I've never driven automatic before all the cars I've driven in Europe was manual I basically had no idea how to drive automatic I knew there is like stick you just move the stick from the parking to drive and you drive yeah simple enough yeah so I tried to wiggle the stick uh and it didn't move there was like little button on the stick I tried to push it and move it to the drive and it didn't move at all so what I do I Googled how to drive an automatic car and that saved the day because the only issue I was doing wrong is I was not pressing the brake pedal so Google Sav the day I pressed the brake pedal I was finally able to move to drive and the car moved It's usually the other way around like people cannot drive manual because they only driven automatic so in my case it was quite opposite and we haven't really driven too far with that car that we've got because the guy give us empty tank I assume that the car will be full so we went straight for where we wanted to go and as soon as we left s maybe 5 kilm after that the cast so I called back the guy who give us a car that we ran off the patrol and he thought he will come but we were too far already so yeah that was a pro trip luckily there was some locals around that helped me with the patrol I hopped on some kind of like a bus and he drove me to nearest house that was selling Patrol it's a bit of a unusual practice because I expected when I rented a car I will get a car that has a full tongue but instead I got an empty Tong and of course when I returned it it has like maybe like a half tongue left we've been to plyer in corn on the North part of the island there was no resort on that beach it was completely Immaculate Beach the next day we went West to explore L leemon waterfall and that one was very impressive waterfall I think one of the best that I've seen so far so that was our first visit to Dominican Republic second time visited in 2019 and this one was in the eastern part in punak and this one was for 3 weeks it was the only time we booked 3 weeks holiday and the only reason we three weeks because the difference between two weeks all inclusive stay in Puntacana and 3 weeks was only £50 nothing we also rented a car in Puntacana we went to Santo Domingo the capital spent all day exploring the city we experienced firstand the traffic jam in front of Zona Colonial which is like an old town of that part after the Zona Colonial we went to some botanical gardens it has an amazing Japanese section that was the best part of the gardens we also been uh to another waterfall the largest in the entire Caribbean and it's called Salto de la Jala or leaping Jala in English and that one was a proper hike that one was like a proper All Day hike in some kind of remote jungle Moody area proper Caribbean jungle and we just go it was like 3 hours there and 3 hours back took us like 7 hours the whole trip I had my brand new trainers completely destroyed in the one more thing we did in a takana was we went to sanoa Island it was like a katamaran tour they go to an island they stop in some shallow water it was quite nice tour we started drinking the local room and by the time we arrived at the island we were so drunk that Caribbean room was strong stuff we've also done the off-road boogies there were several providers in punana we went with the maau off-road experience and it was quite an adventure even though the boogies itself were quite slow to my liking we've stopped at several location including a Coco Farm some uh Beach and even uh at some cave with refreshing water after a long driving it was very fun day and would definitely recommend so we can scratch of Dominican Republic and Dominican Republic is this big island and we only scratching half because the other half is heti and I haven't been to heti we only have a couple of countries left next is Mexico and this time we've been looking to we've been looking to buy holiday in Cancun in quintaro Province but after careful consideration taking everything into account especially the price as Cancun was a little bit more expensive not too much but I think the Cancun one that we were looking for was about 1200 per person 11 1200 and then we found one that was just south of Cancun in area that was called pad Del Carmen and that one was a little bit cheaper I think that was under ,000 was like 8900 so we decided to go for that one the resort was called I roar Tuan and it was five star resort and it was absolutely beautiful it was so Lush and full of vegetation it was in some kind of gated complex that was called bla car and there was like a very push area you can only enter after you passed Security check and we also ented a car and of course when we had a car we had to go and spend one day in Cancun as well that was the first thing we went and we were so glad we didn't book The Cancun holiday because the Cancun while the beach was quite nice it was just one concrete hotel after another with almost no vegetation at all it was like a concrete jungle was so sad that canun STP of the beach when we compared to what we had and think that we actually had it cheaper than what we would pay for that canun place so yeah we were very happy with our choice we've been all these Mayan ruins starting with the biggest and famous One in t area Chichen it we've been there when the place open was absolutely nobody there not even vendors was in there at that time so we had the entire area for ourselves maybe like five people that we've seen in total then about 10 11 the place was sped we were leaving at that time we also did couple of these senot so senot is like the collapsed cave that has have water in the bottom and the top collapses and you have like open cave and there is like like a tons of them in Mexico everywhere big famous one next to the Chichen very touristic they have tons of facilities big restaurants toilet shows everything car parking and the C of is quite nice though we've did quite a few of these senot in Mexico in many different places other than that we visited a couple of other ruins the Chichen Isa like I said was like a tourist trap it's quite understandable because their pyramid is very Immaculate in there so we visited EG balam kobar ruins and Tulum ruins so Tulum ruins were on the south next to the Sea it's also very touristic place is the most hands-on experience because you can actually climb on the pyramid I did climb on the top and the best ruin for me was egg balam and egg balam was like a compromise between the Chichen ITA and Koba can go to every single building it's like a half ruin half still standing and you can fully explore everything including the pyramid at the end which you can still climb and they were still working on it they were doing some reconstruction work or some archeological work on that pyramid and that was the best ruins for me Mexican amazing country will definitely return we can scratch it off and that's probably one of the biggest countries so far we've been so even though we've been only on yukatan in this place we will be scratching the whole thing off I think I scratch a little bit too much of this area but whatever we will have to visit it now that's all the holidays in Caribbean and the next country we visited and that one was just for one day that's the Poland we were somewhere on the North part of the Slovakia borders and we just crossed to the Poland for just one one day we visited some thermal water park we spent one day in there and on the way back we sto in some restaurant and that was my only time I've been in Poland and yeah because of that I can scratch of Poland so Poland is quite Big Country compared the other European countries I think we are getting towards the end there is only one country left I believe and that is Thailand we've been on holiday one and a half year ago with palom pom is from Thailand we've been there almost a month we started In Paya as our friends from UK recently moved pernament to Thailand they were based in bataya so we started our first days in there to rent a car and we started by going to buriram because pom is from buram so she want to visit her mom her family so we stayed in buriram it was a very rural area there was no air con at all but actually the sleeping in there was absolutely no problem uh we had fans it was a proper rural place it was the bathroom was basically just a shed and for the shower there was just a barrel full of water they did have a western Stein toilet in there as well but showering was just bit cold water with some kind of balls you have to like pour water over yourself so that was an experience I really really enjoyed my stay in buram from there we start heading south all the way to puket but we did stop just west of Bangkok I think it was nakom Pon Province as wanted to see her sister we spend all day with them we've been to some Temple next to the river and and then we take a cruise to some floating market nearby and at the end her sister and her husband invited us to stay for one night after that we continued to on our way to puker we stop in huahin for a couple of hours we explor the beach and then carry on we spent several days in bad been to that big budha statue we've been completely on the south we've seen beautiful sunset explor the area stay few days and on the way back we decided to go to kopipi Island spend about three or 4 days in cipi then uh when we were on we got bad news one that friend of ours that we stayed our first few days In Paya she unexpectedly passed away she suffered stroke and eventually didn't make it so just two weeks ago we've been together and suddenly she died in hospital our next goal was to go to k Samui but P wanted to go back so we cancelled our plans with kosamu we return to Paya and we attended funeral so we stay one day for the funeral we only had like one week left after that we didn't want to go back to kosamu all the way so instead of that we went to kachang for a few days we spent about 3 days in kachang we explor both sides of the kachang and after we returned back we went through the trat province so we sto in the trat on the market explored a little bit and then come back to Paya we ended our holiday in there we returned the car and we flew back so that was an amazing holiday sad experience that one unexpectedly passed away during that holiday I definitely looking forward to returning back to Thailand and with that we can cross Thailand as our last country and that's it guys we can count the countries I believe it's 15 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 countries actually it's 16 as I forgot Maldives when I was counting so 16 and the map is still mostly un covered so hopefully this year I might do a little bit more traveling so this year I plan to do YouTube a little bit more seriously so far I've only been doing like two videos a month I was really taking it a bit easy but this year I would like to do bit more intense I would like to upload at least one video a week and couple of goals for me for this year would be first to get monetized from what I've seen on the YouTube Studio I am on track if I would work hard on the content I believe I should be able to make it this year even though I still need quite a lot of watch hours subscribers not that many but I still need these 3,000 watch hours so we still have the content from the last year trip in the Slovakia Northern par and there is a one or two video from Bratislava coming then will be the last part of the uh extreme economy test that I did with my 406 and after that I don't know how many videos I have quite a lot of material about 2 terab of footage from The Cabin state so there will be maybe a about 10 videos not very long I plan to do about 10 15 minutes per video but I will see I still haven't edited all these videos so that will be what I will be doing next hopefully the next video will be in just one week so until then have a lovely day and bye
2024-02-05 06:14
