a BRUTAL post SOVIET pub crawl!

a BRUTAL post SOVIET pub crawl!

Well, good afternoon from Georgia, a country that shares its borders with Russia in the north, Aabaijan to the east, and Armenia to the south. Now, the reason I’m here in Georgia is it doesn’t get many tourists. If you was to say to someone, point out Georgia on the map, most people would not know where it is. So, that’s why I’m here to see what the uh see what the crack is. Basically being an exs Soviet country, it’s got a lot of ex-s Soviet buildings and uh boozers showing the past which I’ve seen online which is one of the main reasons it looks like it’s got some right little tasty joints knocking about. So here is a whole of sublissi center but what we’re going to do is got the chronicles of Georgia behind you. Should have just said uh said that right at the start but you know. So, what we’re going to do is we’re going to dart about the outskirts, check out these old ruins of the Soviet style buildings and stuff like that, which look quite interesting, and get into these boozes that I’ve seen. So, yeah, that’s the plan. So, let’s crack on and see what’s kicking off on the outskirts of Lissa. Tell you what, it’s disgustingly hot. It’s absolutely hot. I’m going to have to get something from these little uh slight little cabbageies that I pulled up here like fresh pomegranate or OJ. Need an OJ. Desperate. It’s too hot. Guy from Manchester. It’s too hot. Hello. Can I have an orange juice, please? Yeah, sure. Which side would you like? Yeah. Thank you. What about your cognac? Yeah. Uh oh. Oh yeah. I love that as well. So orange juice. Thank you. Today it’s uh celebrated birthday girl. Happy birthday. Uh how much is that? This small one can buy it. Okay. And I shot for us. Shot for us on the house. Oh, okay. Perfect. Wow. You got to get a free shot cuz it’s someone’s birthday. You can win them all. Thank you very much. He’s got his OJ, but also I got a free cognac with it as well because it was someone’s birthday in there. So, I felt guilty not taking it even though I didn’t want it. So, I’m going to have to have it now. So, sit down over here somewhere. I know some cognac I didn’t want. Yeah, there’s a nice little chair over here I found. I hope you can hear me. I’m trying to talk with holding this. There you go. Ah, probably seen better days that I’m going to have to put one of these down. I’ll put it down here. Oh, there’s ants all over that. I can’t put that down. I’ll still have it in like a a minute. I’ll put it over here. [Applause] There we go. Cognac. Bloody hell. I thought she was going to give me like just a shot of it. state of that. [ __ ] hell. That’s not for me. That I don’t mind whiskey cuz it’s not really sweet, but [ __ ] hell. Jesus. I tell you what, [ __ ] hell. Oh, I sent shivers down my spine. There’s just alcohol flicking everywhere. Oh, I’m just going to chin that and have that OJ that I wanted. Then we’ll get to uh get some get some proper views. There’s not cognac served out there, but it’s a nice little touch, I suppose. One out of 10. [Applause] Tell you what, the parks around there are absolutely banging. They’re proper wellkept, like proper mode the law. This is looks quite nice. Don’t know if it snows here in Splissy. It’s quite high up near the mountain, so it probably does. Walk down here. Sort of like a Christmas sort like film backdrop, won’t it? It’s well nice. I mean, look at it. Nice little fountain. You don’t really get many of these up north. You know, in London, they’re quite well kept because the population is more and you obviously get better weather down there, so more people are out. But, you know, we need some like this up north. They’re all just hanging ones where people are drinking Kiders in pubs and stuff like that. You know what I mean? So we’re at Oldtime Pub. Oldtime Pub. Oldtime Pub. We’ve got Is it What’s the channel again? Local guide, mate. It’s local guide. So we’ve got a bit of information on this pub. So we’re going to go into here, which is that one there, the big green one. Grab a pint. We’re not going to have a sausage. We’re not going to have a sausage, but they just do beer and sausage. So, let’s get in and see what crack is very busy. Sausages. You try also. Yeah, it’s delicious sausage. I’m a vegan. Just beer. Just beer. I thought you joked, but not really. I would I would try one. They do look nice. Is this a local beer? Yes, local beer. Famous brand, local Georgiaian brand. And it’s fresh beer, tap beer. Yeah, in Georgia you find this beer in many shops also, but this one is fresh. Okay. How you say cheers in Georgia? Galos. Okay. Galos or something like that. Something like that. Thank you. That’s quite cheap as well. Very cheap for a beer. I’m not sure how much in Britain, but here generally beer is not expensive. Well, there you go. Cheers, guys. And go. Right. So, that was pub old time, which an absolute banging p. I don’t know how much it was, but I’ll put it up. But now, I got told that there’s some ace old Soviet brutalist architecture that I need to check out, which is a metro stop away. Is that right? Yes. There we go. So, got to get a metro. And what’s the history of it? And Phil Metro is also very interesting itself and it worse to explore because in Soviet times it was number four that was made in a project and some stations are very deep. You will get shocked. So there metro when you are here. Well there you go. That’s what it’s all about. It’s about getting outside the uh centers isn’t it? And then check out these it’s like a sky bridge. Did you say sky bridge? Sky bridge. What’s the history between the sky bridge? So in Soviet times skybridge was a project to interconnect lower residents to upper residents. So it was very smart idea through this uh building uh to at bridge to connect but unfortunately uh Soviet Union has some financial problems already in 1980. So uh only one sky bridge is the project that is survived other projects not possible to complete. So sky bridge function is unique to interconnect lower and upper residents through the bridge. There you go. That sounds that sounds interesting for me. So that’s what we’re going to do. We’re going to get the metro, this old Soviet metro and out to these buildings and just see what’s kicking off basically. So let’s get it done. Right. So we’re getting some Don’t know what it is to be. Something with beans in it. Said it’s like authentic Georgian food. This one here. Wow. It’s so hot. It’s just fresh. Very fresh. Is it? Oh, there you go. Oh, thank you. Oh, Jesus. It’s delicious. I’m sure you will like it. There we go. Because I’m You try it. What’s it called? Lubiani. It’s Georgia is famous with it pastry. Mostly we have cheese products, but for vegans, vegetarians, Lubiani is perfect uh option to try because it’s made from red beans. There we go. Red beans. I got to wait for it to cool down. Yes. It’s a bit too hot. Very delicious. Yeah. Sweet. Well, we’ll have that. We’ll scramble that and we’ll give it a rating. Looks quite unhealthy. So, that’s strange. Something new. Yeah. It’s just got like This is just red beans. Yes. Red beans and dough. Yeah. Just red beans. Yeah. And uh it’s very popular uh when during uh keeping fast, you know, fasting. Okay. But before some religious big celebrations, Georgians are fasting and it’s like very good option for fasting. It’s quite filling. Yes. Well, there you go. I’ll give that. Do you think you can finish it, Terry? Not yet. I’ll have it later on. Yeah. Thank you. Yes. Oh, wow. Yeah, that is really nice. Mhm. Hey, but this look very East European and we’re Soviet still bridge and this is railway area like it’s a nice station. It’s better than stations in we’ve got in Manchester miles better. Look at this. Can even see myself in this mirror. [Music] Next station [Music] [Music] I said we I pull it up. Tommy, [Music] found the perfect spot to have the rest of my uh whatever it was, you know, I bought before had red beans in it. Skybridge is just there as we’ve just seen. So, you want to finish off this little pasti. Should probably be eating it now. I’ll do a cut and then I’ll have I’ll start talking about the sky bridge whil it’s eating as well. So, yeah. Got to get an elevator. Get up there. Apparently, it’s got good views. Walk across sky bridge. See some brutalist posts Soviet architecture. That tastes honestly so it’s nice, but it just tastes so like fattening. Like worse than any McDonald’s Burger King burger you get. It just tastes very saturated. But you know, is what it is. Done a lot of walking today, so I probably burned it off. I was going to sit on there but I thought sack that. So yeah, let’s finish this and get up the sky tower sky bridge. Sorry. I think that was an eight and a half. Right. First of all, we need to figure out how to even get in get to this elevator. I don’t know if the bridge starts over there or starts over here. So, uh who knows? I think we might start in that building there. [Applause] I think just walk along. But don’t forget people do live in here. So we don’t want to be like going on elevator someone’s floor. Do you know what I mean? Knocking on someone’s door think it’s an elevator. Someone comes out kicking off. So uh yeah, we just have to wing it basically, you know? Let’s go. Let’s get inside. I have no idea where I’m going here. Hey, someone’s supposed to be working here. Look, it’s that one. I call it. Hello. I just need to go up. I just up to the sky bridge. Is it 20? One person 20 to 20. Okay. Yeah. [Applause] Okay. Residence. Yeah. Okay. What bridge? What? 14. 14. Okay. Thank you. [Music] Okay. Four. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. 14. Christ. 20. I don’t know what that is. What’s 20? I think 10 is I think it’s like that’s quite expensive. That’s about three quid. I don’t know. I’ll do the numbers when we get home. 10. It’s a bit of a museum in it. It’s still looking all right. Yeah. Hoody hell. Didn’t know there’s like a little toe woman in there. She’s just having a bit of a kick. I interrupted her now. Feel a bit harsh. Tell you what, this is worth the money. Even if it was a 10 to get up here. Look at this flipping heck. Tell you what, this is some brutalist architecture. This flipping heck. Goes all the way along here as well. Muffin. Sorry. Look at that. I tell you what, building even this old probably been done up. It’s even got a wheelchair ramp. You don’t get that in Weather Spoons back in the UK. Wheelchair ramps. Flipping heck. This is absolutely roasting. I think it might be a another beer time. I know. I’ve just had one recently, but you know what I mean. Oh, it’s some here. Might as well. So, uh, it’s got to be half decent booze around here, is it? There’s the center, by the way, as a blissy. It’s not not even that far, you know what I mean? So, yeah, let’s crack on and get to a boozer cuz I’m getting a bit getting a bit thirsty. Right, it’s absolutely cooking again now. So, it’s time for another beverage. And apparently, well, I just Googled this one. I got an out house to uh say on it. I was going to say apparently it’s meant to be good. I just made that up. But apparently, well, it’s got good reviews. 4.6. I don’t go in anything that’s like under 4.5. So, it’s just here. So, see what the crack is. It looks like it’s a bit of a tap house, so I might be able to get some air. I like a hazy IPA when the weather’s like this. It’s quite a tell you why I’m so red tomorrow. But you know is what it is. I’ve got a Fat 30 on today because I keep putting Fat 50 on and I never get a tan. I want to get a bit of a tan. So I thought Oh, here it is. Here. Right. Here we go. Not Subway. This one here. That one saw one. There we go. Let’s take the long route around, eh? Get like a bit of a panorama. Yeah, let’s go inside there. Grab a pine. Maybe sit outside as well. You will feel better. You will feel better. The whole thing So, we have some imported. I love these. Oh, I’ll try it out. Yeah. Yeah. What are your feelings? I guess you’re talking about racism like [Music] you like There we go. He’s on the Georgian Georgian. I don’t even know how to say it properly. IPA.270 or something like that. 2.70. I’m absolutely cooking here. I’ve already had a few sips cuz I was chatting to the uh the uh barmaid about Scotland and stuff like that. We have to drink it quick cuz in this heat it’s like warming in like 2 minutes. Yeah, it’s all right. The view is not too bad. It could be better to be fair, but you know what I mean. So, we’ll find another one. Going to get a Guinness. We’re going to get a Guinness. We’re going to give it a go. Uh, it’s definitely going to be better than Benador. It’s got to be better than Benadoron, even though this is further away from Ireland. See what the crack is there. E. There we go. So, he’s just been given a a sig cuz everyone in Georgia likes likes a sig. I I bar over here. Here he is. Hey, what’s up people? And he said if by me he knows the best Guinness in town and that place is so the best place to watch sports and enjoy your beers and your drinks here in Tlisi is our is the place which I would recommend. It’s in Rousa Valley Pub 44. It’s the best bar in Tlisi to watch sports. Yeah, he’s going to go tonight. He’s going to have a good time. He’s going to show you people. So yeah, let’s see how it goes. Well, you go. You look better on camera than I am. We’re going to go there. PSG are on tonight as well. They’re uh PSG versus Chelsea versus Chelsea. So PSG PSG going to slap Chelsea silly. Definitely both. Definitely 4-0. That’s what we all hoping for. So we’re going to finish these off and then uh we’ll go to Well, I will. He’s got an exam in the morning. I got exams. He’s studying, but he’s still on the base tonight. Why not? Yeah. I know cuz everyone everyone over here drinks. So we’ll go over there. We’ll finish these and then see what the best Guinness apparently in in the whole of Spliss. No, I mean they serve Guinness, they serve good Guinness. I I don’t know the whole of Tiblissi, but in Pop 44, you get good Guinness. And I know for a fact that it’s the best sports bar in Bliss, for sure. That’s all you can ask for. So, we’ll go there. We’ll finish these and see who’s kicking off. Cup 44. Cup 44. Club 44. Like his videos, subscribe him, do everything. Comment, share. Cheers to Georgia. Cheers to England. I like your football. RIP bro it’s RP say watch his video don’t don’t watch his videos don’t have this man he does not I will be another subscriber of him you should be as well there you go that was more a bar of some art absolute sound folk in there told me where to go stuff like that. A couple of scoots of them. That’s what it’s all about. You don’t really get that back at home. Like sort of like community feeling a boozer. A lot of people keep themselves themselves. So, we’re going to I don’t even know where we’re going. I saw a pup. I said it was uh 10 minutes away. I don’t even know it’s any good. It’s somewhere over here. Tell you, it’s a nice backdrop that is it. It’s better backdrop than like Piccadilly Gardens and stuff like that. You know what I mean? more like uh the Mury Way in Stockport. So, yeah, let’s crack on. We’ll do one more pub before we uh try the best. I can’t remember if we said the best or a half decent Guinness uh this um football pub and watch um Chelsea get smashed by PSG. Let’s crack on and do that. Hey, don’t know. Oh, here we go. Snobs. Oh, I love to get coffee. Snob is upstairs. Second floor. Might get a coffee on there. Might get coffee on the way down. Let’s uh let’s get to snobs and be a bit snobbish ourselves. Maybe we’ll get a wine in. You know what I mean? Georgia. Georgia, the home of wine. I think they invented it. Then why have they got me on me hands and knees going up here? [Music] this. [Music] Oh, bloody hell. Look at this. You get your own balcony here. Bit crumpet down there. A guy was just listening to went to Sandman. Man, I don’t know whether you heard it on camera. Bit of Metallica. I think it’s all right. It’s got air conditioning inside, but I’m not too bothered. Bit more of atmosphere out here, is it? Bit more of a vibe. Sweet. Let’s look at this menu and get some ordered. See, you can’t get a beer. You got to get a wine or a cocktail. Now, these are all a bit steep. These ones that say slummit slummit slummit/summit I think they’re slash by the glass because there’s no way I’m paying. So 70 would be about what know what 70 is? It’s about 20 quid. So that’s that’s got to be a bottle and it can’t be 20 glass. I don’t know. Might get a stung gear but I’m going to get going to get a white wine. No idea what I’m more drinking. Don’t drink wine, do I? I’m not against wine. It’s just I don’t normally go to boozers that warrant having a wine glass. You know what I mean? But we’ll give it a go. The home of wine apparently, Georgia. So yeah. I wonder do you reckon? It’s got to be some It’s got to be something from here, a it got himself a George Ian. wine by the glass. So, I can’t slag it off if I don’t like it because I’m not really a wine drinker. You know what I mean? So, it’s like somebody who drinks loads of wine 24/7 and all a sudden you’re going to be Guinness. They’re not going to like it, honestly. So, that’s the So, this is a classic traditional Georgian white natural by the Perfect. That’s a strange color. Yeah. Yeah, that’s a traditional Georgian white. Oh, is it? Yeah. Oh, great. Perfect. So try and when you’re going to breathe out, you will feel this bread. That’s crazy. All right. Yeah. Don’t really drink wine. And I breathe out. Do you feel this dough bread? You know that kind of thing. I don’t really like wine, but that’s I I really like that to be fair. So uh I’m going to show you the difference the between classical and classical European and Georgian wine. Because in Georgia people started making wine really pretty early. The traditional method of making wine is pretty primitive. So the thing is main difference is that in Europe when you brew the wine you cleanse it from the skins from the seeds from the parts. In Georgia they just put we skins with we seeds because of that it gets discolored in uh this kind of clay uh amphour it’s called okay that’s a traditional aurora it’s not like old uh it’s not metal things it’s from the clay okay and because of that you get this amberish color so the flavor is as well the flavor and also the color and the thing is Uh sometimes people from Europe come ask for white wine and then they see this thing and this is not what they ask for. But the thing is in Georgia this is the white wine. Not only the color gives the name to the wine but also the grapes that you use. Yeah. If you use like white grapes, it’s a white. So I hope you like Perfect. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Well, there you go. What an interesting story. There you go. You wouldn’t have that in the UK, would you? Some geese are coming out. That’s so weird. That giving you like a backstory on where the wine came from, why it’s like that. He just serve you, he chuck at you, he say, “Here you go. Here’s your wine.” He throw it across the old pub, probably hit you on the head and say, “There’s your wine.” And kick you out. You know what I mean? I don’t know how much that one was. I don’t know which one he gave me, but I think it’s about 20 20 Georgian or something, which is about what? It’s probably only about six quid. And you got a view like this. So, a bit like New Orleans, isn’t it? Well, I can’t say New Orleans cuz obviously George here came before New Orleans. America’s not even that old. You know what I mean? So, this this came before New Orleans. But yeah, sweet. I’m happy. I’m happy with that diagnosis of the W. It’s perfect. This is why you come to places like this and explore. Like I say, I know people comment on video saying, “Oh, I should be getting the Guinness all the time. I want to see what the Guinness reviews are. Even if you don’t drink wine, you got to explore. I mean, I wouldn’t have it all the time. It’s not me, but it’s just nice to have something different. You know what I mean?” So, treat. Cheers, guys. And on to after just saying that, it’s going to be a Guinness review. But, you know, is what it is. That’s what the channel’s based off is it. It’ll be a Guinness review. and Georgia to listen. That’s an eight out of 10. You know what? I completely forgot what that um pub was at that geyser said. Pub some summit. I completely forgot. So, I’ve had to just go to one that says it serves Guinness, which is around here. We’re not going into any of these. You know what I mean? Although, they do look pretty nice to be fair. Yeah, mate. I’m all right, Paul. Try and get the Guinness, mate. Um, forgot to say now. Let’s just get the Guinness all around here. I think I’ve got to be in the wrong place. It’s all restaurants, this is it. What’s that? Oh, there we go. This is the one. Sweet. that says Murphy’s, but there won’t be any Murphy’s side inside. Sorry. Let’s get a bit of panorama. Look at this here. Bloody hell. This here safe nightclub. Bloody hell. Imagine a locking in there. Christ. I’m ruining this guy’s video of his wife. I think she’s doing one of them like Tik Tok walks. All right, let’s get inside. I don’t know who he wrote that. He’s clearly never had a pint in here, has he? I’m no joking. And that was about what, seven quid. I’ve had to get a cope with it as well cuz it’s just too hot. Oh, I’d be happy just having that here cuz it looks horrible. I might as well try and uh split the G just to try and get it down me as fast as possible cuz I don’t really want it. Nice one. Now [ __ ] Jesus, that is as cold as like you get as a um cocktail or something. Uh two only giving it would be a one, but I’m only giving it a two. I prefer it cold. I’d rather it be cold cuz it’s so hot. I never said that about Guinness. So, a bad thing about Guinness this time is actually a good thing. Yeah. Anyway, oh, that’s a horrible drink to end on. Do you know what I mean? And because of the camera I’ve got, I can’t look back through the footage. I haven’t got a screen on it, so I can’t play back what that guy said to me on camera, which is a bit annoying. So, you know, look at the bubbles in that, man. Seven quid as well. Might get an Uber back to our Soviet sausage bar and uh stay there all night. I’m not going to film it, but I might just go back. Same song. So, yeah. Thanks for watching this video. I’ve doubted about the outskirts of Salissi. Best part about it was the uh sky bridge. That was pretty cool. Decent. I like that. And obviously that’s over B. So that’s interesting. I really like it. It’s a bit too hot. Too hot for me. I don’t know if they’re on eat like us back in the UK. But um yeah, it’s decent. So thanks for watching guys and girls. Catch you in the next one.

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