THIS is the Europe Everyone is Leaving.

THIS is the Europe Everyone is Leaving.

I don’t want to alarm anyone. Yep. But the guy in the green is about to come over and tell us to [ __ ] off. Romania, a country nestled deep in the heart of East Central Europe. Over the next 3 days, we’ll be taking a quiet trip across this beautiful EU state. We will visit its highlights and we definitely seem to be the only people staying on this floor. Meet the locals and soak in the landscapes. Salute. Sal. Welcome to Romania. On the 25th of December 1989, right here against this wall in the town of Targavish, Romania’s infamous dictator Nikolai Chaescu and his wife met their end. This sparked the end of communism in Romania and a promise of a new beginning. Well, today we’re starting a journey through the land of Dracula, horsedrawn carts, and Euro dance music to see what that promise has really become. Oh, video. No. Okay, no problem. This is the museum of Targish, the place where the trial of Chaescu took place and of course the execution. We’re starting this journey through Romania right here at the end of one era and the start of a new one. It’s going to be a big one. Let’s go. We’re starting our journey in the small town of Tabita. And it looks like it’s a bit too late for us to get out. So, let’s explore this regular small Romanian town. The population here is about 66,000 people. So, let’s see what it’s like. Oh, yeah. By the way, we came prepared this time and hired ourselves two bodyguards as it seems to be the way to travel Europe nowadays. We have Emily and George with us. They were cheap. Some lovely houses here. Look at that. Beautiful. I guess let’s head to the city center and hopefully find a place to stay for tonight as well. So, Tavishna feels like a good place to start this journey across Romania, a country that is quite big in European terms with a population of 19 million people. At the fall of communism, the population was into the 20s around 22 23 million. And since joining Shenhen recently, the population has fallen even more. Well, there’s many people leaving this country, heading to Western Europe in search of work, in search of better opportunities. Looks like we found a place for tonight. Let’s see how much it costs for three star luxury in the heartlands of Romania. Hello. Uh, do you have any rooms for tonight? Um, how many? Uh, two rooms. Yes. Only for one night. For one night. Yeah. 220 late for one room. What’s that convert with? £38. £38. Yes. Okay. Yes. Thank you. Perfect. Thank you very much. Okay. The other one 615. So you are together. Amazing. Thank you very much right here. anything in the restaurant open in the back. Thank you. Perfect. Up to you guys. Much sir. Thank you. For a little one as well. That’s staying in. 615 616. Where we at? Ah. All right. See you guys in a minute. Yep. See you in a minute. Thank you. This is going to shed all over the room. Let’s check out this room. Yes. So, this is what £38 gets you here in the town of Targavita. Taravish. Taravishta. I keep mispronouncing. Comfy. Oh my god. Let’s check out the bathroom. It sure is very noisy. Very nice. Very clean. Very clean for £38. $50 at the moment a night here in the heartlands of Romania. It’s all right, isn’t it? Cupboard. Do you reckon we got dressing gowns for the spa? Not today. Not today. That will do. That will do. We didn’t come here to, you know, chill and sleep in the room. To sleep well. We didn’t come here to sleep well. No, that’s for sure. So, we’re just walking up our corridor, and we definitely seem to be the only people staying on this floor. I love how they were checking for a long time whether they’ve got any rooms or not. We might be the only guests in the whole hotel. Not many tourists inv it seems on a Tuesday afternoon in November. Missing out. They are missing out. They are missing out. Perfect. Nice to have a balcony too in our room, but you know, whatever. Biggest coffee chooses. Come on. Spend £40, mate. Try. Excuse me. Do you speak English? Yes, a little bit. Are you from Taravish? Yes. What to is there to do here? What what is there to see? Uh well, at this hour I don’t think and this month. Yes, this weather. This weather is um I don’t know. This is the historical city. It’s a very beautiful city. Very nice. Nice nice houses. Where are you from? Uh from the UK. Wa. And you don’t have friends? Romanian friends? I don’t have friends. No Romanian friends. I mean, not here. Only you now. Only you. You’re our first Romanian friend. Are you from here? Yes, I’m I’m from here. Um, I don’t know what to tell you more. U, how is life here in general? Do you like living here? Yes, it’s okay. I just a regular Yes. small city. Uh, I lived in B in Bucharest. Yeah. I don’t like it there. No. Why? It’s a very busy city. Uh you take too much time to get from there to there. Makes sense. So much time. Yeah. But here you can walk everywhere. Yes. And it’s quiet. Yes. Cozy. What is your name? Catalina. Catalina. Ulia. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, Matt. Nice to meet you. Matt. Yes. George. Nice to meet you. My husband is George. Georgia. Have a nice nice trip. Thank you, Catalina. Nice to meet you. Bye-bye. One thing I tell you, Romanian people are so nice. Back in the day, I used to work with so many of them in the UK and they were all so lovely. And one thing I tell you about them because the because of the language Latin roots, every single person I’ve worked with spoke like five or seven different languages. It’s unreal, isn’t it? It is unreal. Very jealous, not going to lie. You and me both. Speaking of being a language buff, one thing we always notice when we travel, no matter where we are, how much easier everything gets when you speak even a little bit of local language. people open up and you just stop being such an outsider. 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And the phrases are actual things people say in everyday life. Plus, they offer things like life coaching if you fancy getting a bit deeper. If you’re thinking about learning a new language, this is the tool that we keep coming back to. And right now, Rosetta Stone is running an amazing limited time deal. You can get a threemonth subscription for just $40, a lifetime subscription for a single language for just $99. And even better, for just $149, you can get lifetime access to all 25 languages across the platform. Just click the link in the description box below or scan the QR code on screen to get started. So, following uh Catalina’s advice, didn’t really lead us to more people or anything going on this evening in Old Test, but we did find a lovely park. Look at this. with a big statue of Vlad the Impaler, who was from this part of Romania, the famous Vlad the Impaler that used to, how can I say this without being demonetized? Impale invading Ottomans. Is that going to work? Also in this park, moving on, there’s a nice Soviet theme park that’s also shut and a beautiful lake. And opposite that, you can see some nice new apartments going up over there. So even in this part of Romania, not in the capital, not in one of the biggest cities, there is some development happening, lots of improvements, just no people it seems. What a lovely place though. Tardish known around the world for its dark history, for what happened 35, 36 years ago, but nowadays it’s a nice little place, nice little start to the trip. But tomorrow, it’s going to get a lot more interesting. We’re heading into the mountains. Wait. Okay. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Have a nice day. Flowers in the morning. Very nice. All right. It’s lovely. Okay. We’re looking for a ticket to Gordon. Baza. Globus. No. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. What do you ask? From England. Ah, England. England. Yes. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. That is the only Romanian word we’ve mastered so far. Speak for yourself. Do you not hear that accent? That was incredible. You even had by the time you get there 12:30. Oh, wow. Got all the clothes in there. There’s definitely the smell with it. Glo. No, it doesn’t go to doesn’t go to glo. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, yeah. Okay. Okay. Outside. See that way? I just pretend that I understand. Yeah. Oh, she’s going to show us. Ah. Mh. I honestly have no idea. It changes every time I say it. Italian. No, English. England. No. England. England. Yes. Yes. very interest climate foundation old very very interesting amazing thank you so much cheers by the best okay got the tickets thank you bye-bye Right, we’ve got our tickets not to the town that we were going to, but to a town a little bit before Petraita and then we’re going to try when we get to the end of this train line to get further. The bus wasn’t looking hopeful, but apparently the place we’re going is very beautiful according to the lady. The conversation that we just had in like five languages at once, it seemed. So, let’s find out. Look at this train station, by the way. Got the old factory over there that we saw on the way in yesterday. And apparently that’s not working anymore. So, that was something that was working probably during the socialist period and maybe in the ‘9s just after that. But these days, that’s shut up. And around it, you see lots of new European industrial units like K4. It’s just over there. Big supermarket and then lots of shopping units. But again, that’s just interesting to see the difference in what industry was, how money was made in this town not too long ago and the modern way. You know, the shopping precinct next to the old socialist factory. But this station is definitely very socialist. It was built I don’t know when, but a long time ago. Still pretty cool. You smash that Romanian, by the way. Yeah. Quatro. Quatro. Latin language. They must get it. It seems to work. It seems to work to be honest. Let’s have a look at the old sign board from here. Where can we go from Petraita where we’re going? Bucharest Nord Tu and that’s it. There you go. Not exactly the center of the modern world, but reasonably connected even these days. Romania’s actually got one of the biggest rail networks in Eastern Europe. And back in the socialist period, one thing they did have is a lot more trains, a lot more services running. And then with privatization, with them moving over to a capitalist economy, certain routes didn’t become viable. It’s a similar story across many former communist countries. And here in Romania, there was a lot of routes that have been cancelled completely, including the route that we’re taking today. It was cancelled in 2013 and then recently reinstated. Back in the late 80s, there was services out to many villages from all of these medium-sized towns and you could get all over the country on a train. And these days, you still can, but the frequency is a lot lower and the amount of trains that are on the tracks is a lot lower. It’ll be interesting to see the train when it turns up if it’s still an older train that’s running or they’ve put a new train to serve the route. But we’ll see in about an hour. Okay. Sure. Do the for you. Hello. Hello. Hello. I speak English. Yes. Yes. And you can you speak English? S. Oh, s. Okay. Nice. So, it seems that when they reinstated the service to Petraittita, they upgraded the stop as well. It’s a brand new train, which is a bit disappointing. I was looking forward to hanging out the back window watching the world go by at 4 miles an hour. G you. Okay. Okay. Next stop. This Europe. Europe. Ah, it comes here. Europe. Ah, I think he’s saying that there’s a a trash mountain of trash. Yes. Comes from Europe to here just outside of Tavishu. He said it smells really bad. You can really see that. And this is his area. My sleigh. People just getting off the rest of the train just go. Solid English. This one’s so fun. What is going on? There’s a horse. Oh, go. Oh, just your average train journey in Romania. at what we my you want to hear it again. This is not it. There’s no way this is it. No. Nikobu Emily. Nikobu. I’ve spelled this every possible way you could spell. Niku Niku Nikku. I love you so much. I love you so much. You too. Goodbye. Long live USA. Lovely to meet you. Have a good day. Bye-bye. Well, that was the most eventful 53minute train ride of my life. That beats Southern Rail any day of the week. You don’t get Nikub Buku on Southern Rail. Although, we didn’t actually get Nikubuku on this train either because someone couldn’t find him. I You guys want to help me search? I tried so hard to find Nikub. You’re really upset with that. Did you get his picture? Yes, he just gave you that. Yeah, I tried to give it back and he wouldn’t let me give it back. This is my bar now. Oh, he’s there. is there. Freedom is Nikobu. Oh, welcome to the town of Petra. I think this is the enduku, the birthplace of Mikubu. This is the end of the current train line here and we’re heading a little bit further up into the mountains towards the village of Gaude or Grod spelled Gaud. It’s a Romany village and we want to see how the Romany community here in deepest Romania live. Our man is from old Glaude. So, uh, seems like he live a fun life. Look at this. While we’re here, here in Petraittita, this is the foothills of the Carpathium. Very beautiful here in the autumn. I mean, very beautiful any time of the year, I’d imagine. Really nice. It’s a very different flavor to the to the towns and the cities of Romania. We’re here in uh the rural villages of Romania in the back gardens. Seems that most places have chickens. They’re keeping chickens and a very loud dog to protect them. Okay, our man from the train is very desperate to find his music. So, we’re on a mission now. Yep. You found it. No, I’m trying really hard. This? Yes. Nikob. Yes, we found it. No way. We found me please. Globe go glo globe together we go. Glo. You can notice straight away that the infrastructure here in the villages is very different to cities. It seems like it was built a long time ago. Well, so far it’s looking like it’s still working. And I mean, the views here, look at that. Gorgeous. Let’s find this bust glo. Sure, why not? Cheers, man. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers. Our friend wanted a beer, so we grabbed him a beer. We’ll have a quick beer and then we’ll be on our way. He’s a good guy. Do you know uh Yes. Okay. Okay. Fun fact, Bora was actually filmed in Gal. And now it kind of feels like a Borat scene. We’re just walking and people joining us and the crowd grows as we walk to this bus station. We’ve already been doing the Borat dancing, you know. We’re already there. So any of you that may have watched Bora and thought it was filmed in Kazakhstan, there is definitely no villages like that in Kazakhstan, but there is here in Romania. Cheers. Cheers. Cheers to Romania and most importantly to Nikico. Play that [ __ ] My apologies. I feel like either the bus comes in 5 minutes or one of these dogs jumps the fence when we get mauled. It’s either or which one happens first. Basically, this the kind of roulette we’re playing here. Kind of Russian roulette. Hey 21st century meets village life. Be careful with the gypsies in your blog. They steal from you. Be careful with the gypsies. They will steal from you. Well, it’s a good thing we’ve left our phones and cameras and stuff around. It looks like we are here. It will be It will be really good. Thank you, man. Thank you. So, the nice guy that pulled up opposite said that he can take us to Glob. He’s going to go home and drop off some stuff in his car and then we can all fear, which is incredibly incredibly kind of him. Um, wow. Yeah, kind of gobsmacking to be honest. Meanwhile, as I talk to you, the party continues. Yes, might as well. Oh my god. Oh, Romania. Hello. They go to the shop. My beer. Are you from God? No. No. Okay. I’m from here. It’s okay. You sure? What is your name? John. John. John. Matt. Nice to meet you. Yes. From uh We’re from UK. UK. Russia and America. America. Yes. And the other guy from England. Yes. Very mixed group. Yes. And you’re from here? From Peter. Yes. I’m European guy. Nice. Nice. Uh for back. Yeah, I think so. And the little one said roll over. Yeah. Oh. Oh, I have seven seven seats. No problem. No problem. This works. This works. Really? You’re a hero. You’re a hero, man. Thank you for this. We’re used to this. Next stop changes every time. So he want to to to go to stay here with the with him and uh no and to to show you a little bit the of course amazing okay perfect my number yes I can I will phone you maybe if that’s okay thank you so much you’re a lifesaver really thank you very much thank you thank you soveraver Oh, really? See you. See you. See you next. Yes. See you soon. See you soon. You have no space. Okay. See you. See you. Thank you. Let’s go. Let’s go. Here we are. Finally here in Gloar, the home of Borat. and the Romanian Romany community. Our man is taking charge. We are literally the rats following the pie piper. Hello. How are you? I’m good. Good. Yes. Good. Thank you. Albana. What does he want to speak with you English? Okay. Do you know him? Yes. Yeah. He lives here. He is. Yeah. Sometimes he has been our friend today. Let’s see the things you can buy in a little shop here in Glo. You can get pistachio cake Dubai load wafers in there. You can find Dubai chocolate even in Glo these days. Oh, they have coffee. Here we go. We’ve got Balis, which is a Romanian Snickers, I’m guessing. There you go. Dubai. Very nice. Over here we have your yogurts. Someana sour cream. Very nice. Different types of meat. our man here. Lots of crisps and chips. You guys want to buy a snack? Uh, no. And then here we have the the drink section. Can I pay by card? Interesting brand. You want to get on a little bit of that? Come on, Julia. I know the old you is still in there. What is that supposed to mean? A little bit of scalling scale. Are you encouraging terrible behavior? Winning glad. Winning. That is the saying. As of today, that is the same. And what is your name? Antonia. Antonia. Yes. And you’re from Glaude? Yes. Is it good here? Where are you from? Yeah, I’m American. Uh, from England. England. Russia. America. Yes. Please translate. No work. My internet is not working. Can you ask him what he is saying? Yeah. Does he want something else? You think he wants? I Yeah, he already Oh, this was for you, but I think you’re okay with Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No worries. No worries. We follow him. All right. So nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Sal. We got to follow. We are lost without him. There you go. The village store here in Brazil. is not car. No, no, no. Let’s go tonight. Tonight? Later? Maybe later. Later. Maybe later. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For now, we walk. Yeah. See the village. See, meet people. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. So nice to meet you. So, we’ve pitched up here in the center of the village just by the the shop with our main man and we’re creating quite the crowd already. There’s a lot of attention on us, but people here seem really nice, really friendly, really happy to see us here. And uh I don’t understand Romania. Yes. Yes. Yes. We go. Okay. Ah, okay. Okay. No problem. No problem. Oh. Uh, I see. I see. Just as I was saying that, someone told us to [ __ ] off. Oh god. Oh, no. Here. Okay. And then we have Mr. the man over here selling his uh cabbages, cauliflowers. I don’t want to alarm anyone. Yep. But the guy in the green is about to come over and tell us to [ __ ] off. Is he? Yeah. Cuz he’s just screamed, “Fuck off.” Go home. So, it’s going to get dark in about 40 minutes, and we started to make our way to the next village. He’s kissing me. Looks like we’re going tried to ring Johnny a couple of times. He doesn’t answer. And that was our only option. There are no buses, no taxis around here. He’s ringing. Oh, hello Johnny. How are you? Emily and Julia walk first. Yeah. Huh? Our man was just feeling very affectionate. Hello. How are you again? Hello again. There is something like uh this year uh from trouble. No, no, before wine. Yes. Is the most Oh, wow. Yeah. Thank you so much. Juice like juice. No, no, no. This is so kind of you. Thank you so much. Thank you. You’re welcome. Nice to meet you. There we go. Bye. What a guy. What a guy. And do you What do you do here for work? What is your work? Yeah, I’m working. What is your work? What time? Uh I don’t know. Amazing. Even in the summer, it’s also beautiful. Yeah, it’s so beautiful. So beautiful. We were we’re trying to understand his life in Romania in general um getting better and better now or going the other way with most people say. This is the question. I’m not the best option to to ask because I’m a spoiled a spoiled guy. Sure. Sure. I have a good income. I have a You have a comfortable life. Yeah. Comfortable. So, yeah. Yeah. When I’m looking to the guys who who are coming to me for for work, not so nice. Not so nice. And the the social stuff is always down down down. Yeah. Always in down. People are not reading anymore. Sure. before some some jokes they didn’t understand even sure. Yeah. Yeah. Only how to say the poverty mentality came down came down down you had already your example. Yeah of course. Is is that typical of most places most villages? He he uh when I was talking short with him, he was afraid that the guys from from his town will uh stole stolen Yeah. from us. From from you. That’s why from my side I had the he’s a good good person. Yeah. He’s a good guy. He’s a really lovely guy. Really lovely guy. And he was trying to to be here to make your your life comfort comfort. What to see? It’s not a big attraction. I don’t know. It was very interesting for us. Very interesting because it’s so different, right? To see the gypsy village is so different. And it’s not a typical gypsy gypsy site. Yeah. Yeah. Because our our gypsies are somehow different. Yeah. Okay. They are doing a lot of they say um harvest a lot of stuff from from mountains. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Lot lot of working in the fields in the in the forests and stuff. I work also but the the main job is to to grow plants. Yeah. Ambient plants. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And to sell. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t know what to say. for me. I I I’m speaking. Thank you so much. You really are. Can we Can we give you some money for petrol? Are you sure? Please. Please. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you so much for leaving us. Sorry to say journey home. Thank you. Thank you very much. And see you next time. Yeah, for sure. We have your number. So if we come back this way, we’ll ride to you. I don’t know. Maybe. And we’ll see your finished roof. Thank you. Bye-bye. What a man. What a man. Oh, we absolutely [ __ ] without him. That’s for sure. Jesus. Let’s do it. Get the juice. What a man. Oh, he brought us juice. He brought us juice. Yeah. A box of juice. Oh my god, Johnny. What a guy. He got us out of a tight hole. That’s for sure. We wouldn’t want to be spending the night in old Glob. As uh as nice as our man was, Ilie, it was um as the sun was going down, it was getting a little bit little bit sketchy. A little dicey. Little dicey. But bless him. He was so worried all the time that we’re going to get robbed. I think that’s part part of the reason he was walking around with us all the time. He was genuine concerned. What a sweet guy. like both both Elie and now Johnny you know like wherever you go even here in Europe that you don’t expect um that kind of hospitality people always help you out um when you come with good intentions when you come to just have a good time people are always there to help you amazing and we’re in the town of Sai now which is a more touristy town and um we’re right deep in the mountains in a mountain valley and it’s absolutely gorgeous with the sun going down you can’t see as much. But look at these buildings and with the mountains in the background. Um, do you speak English? A little. Can I at least have four tickets to Bkaria? Multim 41, 42, 43, and 48. Then wear this one. We’ve made it to the capital. Welcome to Bucharest Guardian for the second time in a week. So the thing with Romania is it’s kind of split in three areas that have been ruled in the past by different empires and therefore have different influences. And this more southern area in the west you had the Austrohungarian and this here in the southern area at one point was ruled by the Ottomans and that means there are slight differences between the places and you would have noticed that here in Bucharest if it wasn’t for the fact that the main man Chaoescu back in the day went on a trip to Pyongyang North Korea and he fell in love with the city its planning and really took inspiration from Kim Sunung. And when he came back to Bucharest, he decided, I want a city like that. So a lot of old Bucharest, a lot of the old town, the old Ottoman style buildings, traditional Romanian buildings that you would be walking through right now were demolished. Completely demolished to make way for a new idealistic communist socialist style chao Pyongyangesque city. And we’re going to walk through some of those streets right now and head somewhere very special here in Bucharest that we wanted to see. I’m going to get a fake car me. Yeah. You want anything? What is your uh patio unul? So you speak Romanian, English, German. Any other languages? Roman. Oh, nice. Romania as well. Yes. Is life in Romania getting better and better now? Harder? Really? Do many people, older people prefer before communism or now? Now is better? We all in my age. Yeah. Say we say better communist church. There are problems in every generation. Yeah. In every time there are some problems. Different problems every generation. Yeah. Yes. Yes. My problem is I You don’t look You look You look good. You look good. Really good. What’s your name? Christian. Christian. Nice to meet you, Matt. I’m Julia. Nice to meet you. Thank you for talking. Thank you so much. Thank you for We uh want to see you again. We will miss you. Byebye. Byebye. There’s your pie. Thank you. One thing I’ll tell you for sure and I knew that before people here so really really nice. Thank you. Good. Yeah. It’s like a sausage roll in the UK. So good. Is it better than Gregs? Absolutely. It’s been fascinating to see the changes throughout the country even during this time the smaller cities into the villages and Romania went through a similar path as uh all former communist countries when the system fell apart. There was a huge struggle during the ’90s. Then Romania joined the EU and things started getting better and better. The wages started rising. Standards of living as well with that. And then 2008 the financial crisis hit. There was a bit of a stumble and it seems like the country has been struggling a bit since then. Right now we’ve been talking to many people and they say that the situation in Romania is pretty much the same as everywhere else in the world now. The inflation is pretty high. the wages are rising but not enough to match the inflation. And we noticed throughout our time in Romania that prices are not that different to UK to the western countries. However, the wages are quite a lot lower. It’s been fascinating to see Romania and the changes in development throughout the country. But now, let’s head to the main place here in Bucharest. Well, welcome to the Bucharest that Nikolai Chaescu was trying to build in his vision, the one that he wanted after he saw Pyongyang and fell in love with the style of that city. And right now, we’re heading up to the place that we wanted to come here in Bucharest for a very long time. Hopefully, in the meantime, the rain stops. Did you know that Bucharest is also referred to as little Paris? It would have been way cooler if it was referred to as little Pyang. This is very true. No one wants to be called that for some reason. Everyone wants to be little Venice, little Paris. We’ve been to Pyongyang just over six months ago and I think it’s way cooler to be called the little Pyongyang. Prefer Pyongyang to Paris. Europe’s fallen. This in front of us, ladies and gentlemen, is the heaviest building in the world. and the second biggest administrative building in the world as well after Pentagon in America. Why would you build something that huge? I guess why not if you can. I wonder when they’re going to build something heavy in Dubai.

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Welcome to the Europe you never hear about. This is Romania, one of the most fascinating countries in Eastern Europe. A land of latin speaking orthodox christians nestled in lands surrounded by slavs. Today we are traveling deep into Romania, through forgotten towns, and even up to the Roma village where none other than Borat was filmed.
In 1989 Romania was still a communist country, under the control of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu. But in 2025 Romania is an integral part of the EU. But what is life like for normal people in Romania in 2025? Has life changed for the better since 1989? Or is life in Romania going back in the opposite direction?
Join us on this travel vlog through Romania, as we head back in to its dark past, and travel deep in to its mountain villages find out what has changed since the fall of communism.

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THIS is the Europe Everyone is Leaving.