Walking through the city of Gyor in northern Hungary while talking about eastern Europe, what it is or isn’t and why I love traveling in this part of the world.
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A few things: As I said in the video, establishing what exactly is Europe can be tricky, so defining Eastern Europe is also very open to debate. The term Central Europe is also used to refer to several of the countries that were behind the Iron Curtain. Even the Wikipedia page doesn't state exactly which countries are included in Eastern Europe, but leaves it open: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe As for Kazakhstan, this is the first line of the Wikipedia page: "Kazakhstan,[c] officially the Republic of Kazakhstan,[d] is a transcontinental landlocked country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan And Azerbaijan: "Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan,[c] is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan And a correction, the map at 10:30 gets things backwards as the key shows the blue countries as the Eastern Bloc and the red countries as the Western Bloc, when it's the other way around.
Not one "homeless" person in these recent countries of Europe? Where are they?
Great video Gabe! Always enjoy your walk and talks!! Cheers from Toronto Canada
Of course Gabriel, as a Northern Mexican, is familiar with the Romance languages.
You probably know most of this . . .The "some guy" who coined the term "Iron Curtain" was Winston Churchill. He was one of the first to see what Stalin was doing in the European countries he had control over after WWII. Yugoslavia was definitely communist, but Marshall Tito, it's leader, was te one guy in the Eastern Block who could stand up to Stalin and get away with it. When France became more non-aligned under DeGaulle in the 60s, he told the American Secretary of Defense, I think Dean Rusk or Dean Atcheson, I forget, that he wanted all American GIs out of France, and the Secretary famously responded, "Including the ones buried there?"
Hungary is in the middle of Europe only recalling the Eastern block countries that the Soviet Union controlled after the second World War.
I love Easstern Europe too, im in serbia now…
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I’ve been to Hungary but I do not even try with the language. I do some pointing and pantomime and we all have a good laugh at this American who can’t speak it. 😂
Such a beautiful random city. That's why I like your videos you show around. Gabrielle high roller!
I think I saw a Stop sign in English
Currencies in Europe or the 'harder ones' including UK are overrated and designed for imports and service economies not for exports and industry, like asian countries or Brics. A meal in Hungary for usd15 is not cheap, Hungary must be doing an effort not to enter the euro and its crazyness of costs of living, think that Hungary doesn't have a maritime port for their goods, freights are expensive.
I am half Spain half Scandinavian and since a decade I live in Paris, France. Your European "general observations" are always legit, regardless of whatever political opinions one might have 🏆. For sure, you understand Europe!
The increased cost of petroleum and liquified gas in Europe has created an inflationary rise. Until the Ukraine/Russian debacle gets resolved inflation will be king.
Considering of official geography , there is europeaan part of Europe and very Small european part of Turkey. Everything beyond is Asia.
Eastern Europe is what was the old Warsaw pact countries that were communist after 1945. Western Europe is divided up into Northern Europe = wealthier countries but damper cooler weather, Southern Europe less prosperous but warmer climates. You also have Israel thinking it's part of Europe but it's not, it's in Asia.
The proper pronunciation of Sopron is "shopron"
I live in Northen Europe Sweden 🇸🇪
Gabriel why do you not explore Lappand we have a bad inflation so it wood be cheep for you Gabriel!
I hope you can eat well here. You have lost a lot of weight in western europe.
Gabriel sees no apparent differences between Austria and eg Hungary. This is probably because he is only visiting well developed parts of the country. A day in a poor village in Borsod or an hour in Lyukóbánya will definitely be an eye opener for him. Damn it. It is a poor coutry.
I went past this town last week on the way to Bratislava from Budapest.
Gabe you did not finish your meal left a lot on the plate
Sopron is pronaunced Shopron. Hungarians read a "s" like "sh". If they want to say "s" they write "sz".
Gabriel you can't upload barking dogs for more than 15 second bruh , cut it
What a pretty central European city. Beautiful architecture, amazingly clean and well maintained town.
Dude, Europe is a continent and bigger than India, so it cannot be a subcontinent.
Jó napot = good day (pronounced yo na-pot) (bonus: say “jó reggelt” before 9 AM, pronounced yo reh-gelt)❤👍
The some guy who came up with "Iron Curtain" would have been Churchill, I think.
boy do you go on sometimes, Over a ticket. Still enjoy watching though
Explaining the "cheaper" prices in "eastern" Europe. They have several times lower wages then in the "western" countries such as Germany or Austria. When judging prices, you have to ALWAYS factor in how much local people make.