STRANDED on Europe’s Most Eastern Border

STRANDED on Europe’s Most Eastern Border

I’ve just arrived to this tiny little village on the border of Azerbaijan. We’re in Georgia right now, but we’re on the border of Azerbaian. And this whole city is full of people that speak, they’re Georgians, but they speak Azeri. And I’ve come to see the guy here. I can’t film in there. Took me three months to get to see this guy. He’s a spiritual healer. And uh yeah, someone told me about him. I said, “Why not? What do you have to lose? Clean some of my energies.” And uh yeah, I don’t know where I’m going to stay yet. So, we got to figure that one out. And uh we’re back. Let’s enjoy this amazing little village in amazing Georgia. This here is my driver, Goa. He bought me a coffee on the way here. Really cool guy. He’s got a very nice car. And if you ever come to Georgia, in the description I’ll put the details. You want to ride comfortably, you want to ride to anywhere in Georgia, these guys will take you. What a great guy. It’s getting dark. Um, and I’m trying to figure out a place to stay. Let me show you home for tonight, guys. This is it. Square block. with four doors. Each room has a bunch of beds in them. Oh, we’re preparing dinner, by the way. I just chopped all this up. The cooking out there is too dark to show you. Look at this corner. It’s massive. This is my room. Not only my room. I don’t know who else is staying here tonight, but take a look at this, guys. Isn’t this absolutely phenomenal? One, two, three, four beds. That thing over there, I’m not sure what that is. King-size bed. Oh, and some good old Soviet furniture to give the theme some authenticity. Oh, and this mattress is lumpy and hard. Anyways, it better be worth it. I’ll share the food with you in a minute, but I think I’m going to have an early night. So, um, get some grub. Share that with you in a minute. And then off to bed. It’s absolutely freezing out there. It’s freezing in here. But I want to see if I can catch what they’re cooking out there and share it with you. Let’s have a look. I want to see the cooking. Ah, we just prepared it. Look, look what they’re preparing, guys. The lighting here is This is my friend Al Tim, by the way. This lovely young lady. Uh, yes. We prepared carrot. You chopped the uh onion. Onion. Uh, Marjan prepared the uh rice. Rice. So we are waiting uh the chicken be ready to be fried. So and um and here we have the kazan which is a typical very heavy the oil is heating in there. I hope this is getting it because it’s very very dark here but yeah in the daytime uh we can repeat again. Thank you for this experience and thanks for organizing all this. This is the young lady that’s organizing this for me. So once the food’s ready, I’ll share it with you. Why guys? It’s bloody freezing. We’re cooking in the cold here. Uh-huh. And uh I tell you what, it’s looking good. These are the ladies responsible for this amazing dish. It’s looking amazing. Let me introduce you to this young lady, Pearl. Hello. Hello. Hello. Now, she’s preparing for us a Turkman pluff from Turk Manistan. Right. Looks like a good place to go and uh visit, huh, Turkmanistan? We’re definitely going to do that. Heat up here. An absolute success. Loving this. wish you were here. This is absolutely phenomenal. And thanks to this lovely young lady who made it happen. Thank you. Catch you in the morning, guys. By far the coldest night yet. Absolutely freezing. I hate to think what it’s like out there. So, I’ve uh met some of the other people that are actually staying with us. Uhhuh. And we’re off on a march to go get some fresh milk and butter from the farmer. Right. Yes, that’s true. We want we want to have fresh butter for our breakfast and milk for our tea. Perfect. Natural. Do you choose the level of fat you want? 3.2% 2. It’s It’s just gold. Whatever comes from. Anyways, this place is uh is surreal, guys. So, yesterday they told us to hit on the black door, but in the village, all the doors are black. All the doors were black. So, that’s how they describe the house. I’ll just go and knock on the black door. Look, there’s a chicken there. Yeah, they they have all this. We’ve arrived. Milk and going to super. Wow. foreign. Wow. This lady looks like she’s got some experience. Uhhuh. So, I wonder if everybody in the village buys their milk that way. She’s still warm. I thought It’s warm, guys. It’s still warm. Everybody in the village buys the milk like this. Yes, they are drinking this natural nothing added. You uh entrepreneurs out there, you might come here and become a milkman. They haven’t thought of that yet. They’re all buying their milk like this. Is that Oh boy. Oh he’s showing me something. My boo. Look at that guys. How cute is this one? Graci, how cool is that? They’re so soft. They’re so soft. Oh, they’re so cute. How adorable is that, guys? They’re so soft, too, and warm. The three brothers. Yeah. Twins. What’s he doing? Father hero. Poor guys. Poor guys. I must have scared the out of them. Look at that. I’m full of The whole thing. This is going to have to go to dry cleaners. Perfume. Yeah. Attract all the local ladies. Thank you. Okay, thank you guys. Now all the all the village girls are going to love me. Yeah. Look, found a trace on the zip. So, here goes nothing, guys. First time I’m having milk that’s not from the supermarket. It’s got a bit of an aftertaste. Supermarket’s better. Just to fix the milk, I just threw a um Yorkshire tea bag in there. Help. Have a look. Hot milk with Yorkshire tea. One thing you’ll notice when traveling the region is often times what you have for breakfast is a cold version of what you had for dinner. The dinner was so delicious. I’m not complaining. Eat this one. It is made in Tander. Oh, from Tministan. Bread from Tministan. Chicken for breakfast. I smell just like a village boy. I had a um lamb on me this morning and garlic chicken. So, this is Timour, guys. One of the the people that we’re traveling with to this uh to this uh extraordinary doctor. Let’s go and see what it’s all about. So, Timour, he also wants to start a YouTube channel. So, as soon as he’s live, I’m going to potty this summer to film with him. So stay tuned for Timur’s content. It’s coming soon cuz I met a lady yesterday from Kasnadar in Russia. Now that’s very far away who came here all the way to Georgia specifically to see this person. So and as you can see there are people from everywhere. I’m just going to drop the camera real quick because probably not going to be very appropriate. But this is the place. Well, I’m done. I’ve got to admit feel rather good. Problem is there’s no cabs back. So, I’ve got a long walk now to what they call a marshutka to the nearest town and then another marsha which I’ll show you what it is toili. So this should be an adventure of all the places to end up a little village on the border of Azeraijan in Georgia. Anyways, let’s see if we can get to this mashka. See what she boiling there. You’re not going to are you? No, but I can help you. Where are you going? Maruli. No, I’m actually living in I’m looking for the bus stop. I can take you. Ah, what a gentleman. Oh, where are you coming from? I’m from England. Are you from England? Yeah. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. I’m Ras. Ras. I’m Justin. Justin. Good to meet you, my friend. Good to meet you. How far to Mari from here? It’s like 10 kilome, like 6 miles. Can I pay you to drive me there? Uh, you don’t have to pay. I can just take you. No, no, I don’t mind. I really Because if I could take a taxi, I would take a taxi. I just No worry. No wor. I can take you. You’re d. So, how did you end up here? It’s like really weird, isn’t it? Yeah. You see a guy with a camera walking around the streets like what are you doing here? I was thinking you are foreigner probably you can’t I don’t look like a local. I thought you might need some help about like getting direction or Well yeah I was looking for the trains the bus stop to go to the nearest town to go to the toilei to toi. Is it your first time in Georgia? No I’ve been to Georgia a few times. It’s my first time in this little village. Uh I came to see a guy called Edgar. You know Edgar? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Very famous guy, right? Very famous guy. Very famous. I saw people from all over the world come to see him. Yeah. Yeah. From different different cities, different places. You know him? Yeah. Yeah, I know him. I’m friend of uh his son Ali. Yeah. Ali. Yeah. I just met Ali. Yeah. Ali is my friend. Yeah. Nice guy. Yes. So you just were discovering you came to see him and you were just exploring the city the v well the village and you know meeting the people nice people very much feeding all the cats giving food my food to the cats you know so um how did you get communicate with them so I have a I speak a bit of Russian so I managed to speak a bit of Russian with them yeah that will save you but this guy speak yeah but this this guy speaks speaks every language. I think this uh Edward He doesn’t speak language. He just he he just looks, you know, people. Amazing guy. It’s your couple times you’ve been in Georgia, right? Yeah, I’ve been a few times in Georgia. I love Georgia. I want to come and live in Georgia. Yeah, that’s perfect. Thei is good and a lot of now English speakers. Visi is lovely. Batumi is nice as well. Yes. So, which city are you from in England? From London. from London itself. I’m like Chancer fan and Galatasari from Bosovos. Galatasaray Turkish team. Yes, I love Poss. And they both created like in 1905. I think Chelsea established in 1905. Oh, really? You know the history you Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I’ve been in England too. In London. Oh, really? I have been in Stanford British too. Stanford Bridge. Why didn’t you call me say hello? We’re going someapuni together in London. Yeah. That would be perfect. But uh it was like long long time ago like you have to come again. You speak good English actually. How did you learn English? Yeah, I I used to live in United States like where where at in Massachusetts? Massachusetts. Rhode Island like Boston, Providence. Yeah, I know exactly where it is. So what do you do? Would you work here or you working? I have businesses in United States and I still control them. What? What businesses? Like cell phone repair places in America from here? Yeah. Um, I was there 8th year. While I was there, I started my own business. Good for you. Give me five, man. I love it. He’s an entrepreneur, guys. A real entrepreneur. So, you grew up around here? Yeah. Yes. And actually, I um I was studying in Azerba, too. My university uh at Kazar University. I studied there and I used that um program work travel to go America from Abaja. It’s good to see like uh tourist around here is like not much we see. Yeah, I think I’m the first tourist in this in this town. You might be the first tourist. See you later, brother. Yep. Take care. Text you. some waiting for the bus, guys. And they started calls to prayer. Feel like I’ve been teleported to a different world, actually. So cool. So guys, the calls to prayer are over and this guy came over to me. His name is Nikki. Uh and he speaks perfect English. So I was surprised actually because it’s not very common over here. And uh he lived in Poland. But you’re from this village. Yeah. Yeah, I’m from this village. For me, it is very interesting to see a foreigner. First time I seen him. First time. I’m probably the first foreigner to ever come to this village. No. Yes. Justin is very good, guys. So, I just met him. We are waiting for the bus. So, yeah, we’re going to the town. And battery died, guys. But we’re hopping on the bus to the main city with my new friend Nikki. Hello. Sorry. Yes. About are you exploring our village? Yeah, I’m exploring your village. Yeah. This is our Hello my friend. How are you? Nice guys here. This bus is a bit bouncy. So, what do you do here in the village? Uh I’m looking for um some kind of a work. I I returned from uh Germany because I get tired from working. So actually I’m planning to work at school. Oh, the school teacher. Oh, what are you going to teach? Actually my plan is to teach English. Oh, you’re very good. Good for you. I’m very happy that I haven’t been practicing so long. Well, you’re doing very well, my friend. Very well. I just met the young the young boys from uh from the town here of Dendi. This is Solomon. This is Kunan and Ramy. Really cool kids. They came up, shook my hand. Real gentleman. I really like that. I’m I’m really impressed with this little town in the border of G of of Aaran in Georgia. It’s absolutely amazing. So yeah, I’m going to give them a channel. It would be a kick for them to see themselves on the internet. It’ll be fun. I would say my English is perfect, but uh sometimes listen, as long as it’s better than what someone needs, then you can teach something. That’s the main thing. I think uh I could do like uh for our new generation, they need to learn English, learn very good English. I think it’s useful. It’s useful. Especially now with AI, internet, and everything else. It’s going to be very important. Well, Nikki, good to meet you, my friend. So, guys, this is Nikki and uh I wish you good luck. Thank you. All the best. Three Larry. Three Larry to take the bus to Visiar. All right, we’re off guys. Three Larry for a ticket. And uh it’s about a 40minut drive to Vilisi. So goodbye Mari. See you tomorrow. I never thought there’d be a mall here. Take a look. There’s a place called Merry Bull Home. It’s been a long day. I decided to jump off the bus because this traffic is just not moving. It’s faster to walk. But as I said, it’s been a long day and I think I’ll continue this video tomorrow. So see you

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