We are back in Moldova!!!
Steve do you feel like going back home do I feel like going back home yeah we're going back to the land of Stefan the Great yes I'm good I think we are in the potato capital of Romania just like it potatoes and corn yeah born for the mama Liga potatoes for the eating cartoon of course they're Toby's potatoes in Romania oh no what's French fries uh did you fart did I fart it's the manure Ivana really another great day on the Romanian road trip now guys wait till you see this accommodation we have discovered it's 12 very unique full houses that are made to be something like 2 000 years old this one is really cool but first things first a big shout out to our new friend Bogdan who brought us to a lovely restaurant actually where we had 10 pounds of meat on top of a 10-foot map let's go so we had a really nice lunch with our friend and he's brought this map for us and gave us a big list of things to do in the Moldova region of Romania we are really excited for this and big shout out to Bogdan uh the food was good and the company was even better I will say this what's the etiquette on eating meech in a fancy restaurant because typically you should not eat meat with a fork and knife because you waste the juices but in a fancy restaurant it feels funny with the fingers going right to the mouth so I did my best to obey the meech rules while still looking the part of a fancy restaurant I will say we enjoyed a beer which was actually made in the restaurant which was pretty nice actually locally brewed locally brewed right behind the bar right and it was very very nice big shout out to Bogdan uh a bunch of good information coming for our Moldova part of Romania road trip starting now but um without further Ado let's check out this accommodation which is called Valley of the twelve so the idea is there's 12 different units here and they are all uh made to look like there's something like 2 000 years old because there was remains discovered in this part of Moldova that predate Jesus something like 2050 years old so uh what could be better than a uh pleasantly plump night right at the front door Valley of the 12th Valley of the twelve because there's 12 units and they're all 2000 years old because of the history of this part of Romania uh we would not have discovered this place if not for Bogdan our friend so I will say this if you overstay your checkout they hang you right here that's one of the rules it's check out at noon and if you stay too long you're finished but uh obviously not but uh shout out to bogged in because this whole property here is something very cool so as you can see the buildings around us start to take shape you'll notice uh not your typical Romanian architecture but more like something out of a fairy tale they've even built what looks to be a handmade Pond here and you can see little doors in the background and cool rooftops it looks like a Hobby Town it looks like I hate to say this but it just what I would describe it as like a movie set like someone's made some sort of fairy tale movie Set where they've got these uh funny houses that are almost too picturesque to be real it's like they're built for the purpose of photo and video we do have some people in the sauna over here I'll give them their privacy only fair but our room is just right here in front of the sauna in the hot tub and I think you guys will be really impressed with this so as you can see first things first where is it it's underground obviously uh you can see the chimney here this is our uh fireplace but let's go check this out uh one of the most unique accommodations we've seen you want to go okay camera first sure cameras before Beauty so we're gonna go underground here we're gonna knock down and now we are tucked away and I wish we had uh smell-o-vision because it smells like uh really fresh campfire yeah yeah it smells like like uh like oak or something some really nice wood like incense and we've got our little tucked away we're here 2000 years ago right yeah so I think my understanding is the area out front has electricity and Wi-Fi and everything where there's a restaurant and everybody can chill but our actual room is gonna be no electricity and I guess um sort of like a retreat yeah no they have candles which is very cool some candles tonight very cool and you can imagine when you're lying in bed here you're looking out the skylight which is pretty cool because it's got some uh stained glass action on it and this is like ground level so we are way under the ground bro what a cool accommodation I really didn't uh know what to expect when I heard about this place but the way they've designed it this is second bedroom uh the way they designed it very good and they even pre they pre-built a fire for us so it's nice and warm in here we've got like beds made out of wood walls made out of clay we've got wood supports on an underground uh two bedroom unit with foreign it's honestly quite cozy in here yeah it's kind of cozy I think it's really cozy I think it's really cool I'm glad to be here what's on here oh storage yeah I thought this was a fireplace to heat the bed no no this would be a this would be a fire hazard it's like an earth house yeah and it seems like what's amazing is every other unit is built in a different way which takes a lot of design they got like all these different units shout out to Bogdan now Ivana and I are going to settle in and uh get comfortable what do you got there we can let our match light some candles dude imagine that a candlelight for tonight candle lit Underground oh I got my cell phone well the whole point is to be one with nature and you don't need lights going to settle in and then tomorrow we'll take you on a proper tour here maybe show you some other rooms as well as nearby here there's a village yeah so we'll go to the village and we will get our uh classic jet lag Warriors Shenanigans happening but really seriously shout out to Bogdan we had an amazing drive this morning and then lunch with bogdon was great it's already a great road trip video and it's only just beginning yeah boom okay see you tomorrow and we'll tour this accommodation later skaters okay bad time guys we'll see you guys tomorrow Steve is already snoring there yeah listen guys I want to be clear it's late September September and it's not cold in here okay yeah it's actually pretty cozy and warm when you see a room like this you might think it's too cold to be nice you might think it looks good doesn't feel good let me tell you looks good and feels good yeah no socks required when sleeping okay sucks no lab require no lights just from the candle comes with extra wood foreign good night everybody see you in the morning night night okay good morning everybody first things first let me tell you when you blow the candles out in this little below ground house at night time it's pitch black and it's really quite nice to be in because no electricity no Wi-fi pitch black with a little Skylight to watch the Stars very nice place to uh sleep Yvonne and I quite enjoyed ourselves now here is the wood powered hot tub as well as the sauna over here which is pretty cool yesterday there were some people here in their bathing suits and that's why I didn't want to show you figure we'll give them their privacy now there's a whole bunch of other places but unfortunately this is fully booked right now so I can't show you the inside of any of them although look how cool it is I think they've actually burnt and or put some tar on the roof to make it look black and uh another one over here I guess they're all sort of underground but all totally different I would guess the inside is all different too that's why I wanted to show you some of them but I mean cool place to stay really neat accommodation and so we learned that this big building over here that looks sort of like a tree stump is actually the showers and bathrooms which everybody shares because naturally there are no showers and bathroom in your units but this is sort of the nature of this accommodation it's like a retreat almost so this is your bathroom and then this is the really cool Tavern where I think Ivana is just finishing uploading one of our videos there's a lovely Ivana there hard at work I do the editing and she does the thumb nailing uh how often do you get to say shout out to dragons man actually maybe not dragons kill people shout out to the knight in shining armor who slays the dragon man I also wanted to show you this probably the best corner design of any Tavern bar restaurant I've ever seen this is a fake book uh but it's got this really incredible 3D effect over here it says uh please subscribe to jelly Warriors in uh Old English and so there you have it Ivana what was your experience in the no Wi-fi no electricity underground uh retreat very nice actually I had a very comfortable sleep last night it was very cozy I will save on a slap for a new record 11 and a half hours okay yes breakfast was also very good this morning oh breakfast was so good yeah yeah is it true that the Moldova region of Romania has the best cheese in all of Romania I'm not sure if it's true or not but this morning the cheese was so good oh that was some good cheese and I will say uh last night we had a couple glasses of wine because Moldova has the famous wine right so it's actually wine all behind you and I will say pleasantly surprised by bogdan's choice and quite like this accommodation was a unique unique experience yeah very cool nice I like it okay today our goal is to go to a castle yes I thought it was a village but it's a castle let's go check out the castle and see if we can go on an adventure Bogdan has got us set up and now we can go for hopefully a eventful Adventure let's go foreign nice all right so to be clear the castle is absolutely smushed up inside but that did not stop Ivana from getting her groove on to an old grandma phone so the story goes like this in the 40s after World War II the Russian army totally gutted the castle but a castle does not have to be fancy for it to be very interesting now I'm not sure what differentiates a castle from a mansion but this particular Castle was built in the 1880s by a rich couple who only had one daughter and their daughter ended up becoming a nun So eventually they donated it to the church and it became sort of empty after World War II although it's massive and it's got in a very interesting history with a very good tour guide named Sebastian yes that's right who uh took us through every room and told us everything about the uh first ever Castle we've seen in Moldavia is it true I think so I don't think we've seen Another Castle in Moldavia yeah so fingers crossed in 10 years when we have 10 kids uh we can come back because the restoration project will be done in 10 years he said yes yes I thought you said we'll build our own castle even better even better Ivana but uh it would be nice to come back in 10 years it would be kind of amazing because we can compare what they're doing now to what will be finished in the end first ever Castle experience in Moldavia uh a little bit of everything on our first two days in Moldavia holy cow this is no joke so here we are at the Citadel we just uh came way up the hike it looks like we got this really cool Bridge to climb up something straight out of Lord of the Rings all right kind of cool yeah it's more than kind of cool it's really cool let's go yo talk about anticipation building to explore this Citadel love the bridge out front cool love the bridge out front we've got to be a quick math one two three four five six seven eight this gotta be this has got to be 40 no 30 no 25 meters this bridge in the sky 25 meters this is cool 20 meters 60 feet wow anyway my understanding of the word Citadel is Citadel means more or less it means fortified church so we've been to fortresses and we've been to walled cities and now we're going to a citadel sort of all similar but my understanding is this is a church that they fortified it's kind of part place of worship and part Fortress that's my understanding now this particular Citadel was built in the 13 and 1400s and naturally it played a key role in Stefan chalmare AKA Stephen the great AKA not me I know you guys think I'm Stephen the Great I'm actually known as Stephen the talkative but uh it played a key role in his defense of modavia which makes sense because Steven the great is sort of like Mr Moldavia himself so what's great about these citadels is they're quite often built on the high point for defense purposes and so works great for a viewpoint in modern times no need for cannonballs and defense but definitely need for good looking viewpoints so I am super excited to explore this and actually I've lost Ivana so let's go find Ivana and then find some history here in Niam Citadel thank you definitely would be my number one favorite school trip if I was a young student seems like there are many many School groups here because a bunch of little kids and teachers rather than parents pretty good school trip no yeah yeah pretty good school trip in classic Romanian fashion anywhere you're allowed to throw money you do it so there's some money going down right now this I believe would be more like a well there was one up front that was more like maybe a dungeon or some kind of yeah and again full of money now there's some really nice sign boards which is really good because it turns out uh Stefan chalmari was the Warrior One he was a military commander too but he also was sort of like an architect so he would have designed this place uh to be clear it was built before he was around but he would have fortified it and added on to it to give it the shape it has now so it uh it really goes to show you the guys in the 1400s 1500s they really did a bit of everything because I think Amari was like King politician he was like Warrior uh military leader and he's also designing The Fortress with the incredible uh fortifications it has today so really putting the Great in Stephen the great this particular Fortress has got four bastions on the outside which Stefan chalamari would have designed as well as he would have raised it way up and said we need to get high baby so uh shout out to Stefan chalmari I will say from one Stephen the great to one Stephen to talkative I'm tired already oh my gosh imagine you have to fight for your life in here just getting to the Fortress I'm already spent I'm already like oh I lost the war but uh naturally a really nice Viewpoint over here and tons of people out and about getting their Instagram photos getting their school trip stuff uh uh just nice nowadays we can look at this view with uh peace and serenity I think before when they were looking here they were seeing like Shields and Spears and the Army enemies and they were thinking yo wait did they have guns I don't think so 1400s there you go got it also this is why in my guess uh it's a fortified church because probably half the guys are fighting half you guys are praying and then you switch every 12 hours okay do you know what I mean right it makes sense to fortify the place of worship because uh when you're fighting for your life you're saying your prayers all right there you have it guys Citadel uh must see yes absolutely musty in uh in Moldavia so I would say a little bit of everything on our first uh first trip first day back in a little bit of everything we cannot wait to explore more okay now we were here last year to visit the famous monastery uh foreign I got this beautiful I'm sure we'll see some more monasteries Moldavia you think of monasteries the line of monashri and Stefan Channel all right thanks for watching Everybody wow shout out to uh the wind here perfect no I Believe I Can Fly I believe I could touch this
2022-10-12 18:14
