You're actually one of the few tourists that actually says Vlad the Impaler was more of a local hero than a dark lord or vampire. Thank you for that! That is so true.

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

Good to hear, I want these videos to tell the truth to those visiting, that’s the whole point 🙂

As a Romanian, I can say I entirely agree with everything that was said in this vid.

@ChrisKermis

8 ай бұрын

Thank you, good to hear!

I wouldn't say "limited metro" - because it is actually quite big. Almost double than Poland, Hungary, etc. My opinion that is the best mode of transport in Bucharest.

Thank you Sir for saying things how they are about our Country Romania. Much appreciated. I hope you are having a good time in Romania :)

@ChrisKermis

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Nice, subbed. Going to Romania in a few hours, won't have time for anything other than Bucharest, but this was still helpful. Thanks!

@ChrisKermis

Ай бұрын

Thanks, have a great time there!

@whitecrow984

Ай бұрын

dude bucarest is the worst city of them all you wanna go oradea cluj timisoara brasov alba iulia this cities are epic and its surrouding areas even more so pretty much evry captial city is the worst in an eu country except maybe zürich und wien. why? well they noisy and smell like dead animals combined with other dufsts and smells

Pretty great info for foreigners, or so I believe it is, as a Romanian. May the algorithm do its thing

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏽

Comentariu pentru algoritm! ❤

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

multumesc pentru comentariu pentru algoritm! 😊

@raduromanesti6408

9 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKermis

You nailed it. Bravo!

Some great insights. Thanks Chris 👍🏻👍🏻✌🏻

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! 🙏🏽

Very interesting Chris, cheers!

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Nice said. You got it actually right :)😊

@ChrisKermis

3 ай бұрын

Good stuff, thanks!

Schön, danke!

Thank you for this lovely video. I would also like to add to this: 1:40 also spanish and italian a lot, recently many teens learn japanese and korean as well. there's no need to avoid conversations from the communist past, usually there are old ppl (60+) who fancied those times, and young people who fancy democracy, but in general we all agree that the communist era was a pile of crap Regarding the cash thing, yes it is good to have some cash as in any country. Personally, I have payed with cash 3 times in the last ~5 years. We also don't expect you to tip, if you wanna do it please do it because the service was that good, don't just tip because it's "expected".

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info 🙏🏽

Sunt mândru că o parte a familiei mele este descendentă din vechii români (VALLAHINA) Trăiască poporul român și poporul albanez, 🇦🇱 🇷🇴 ♥

Chris is The best 👍

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you! ♥️

Great advice altogether ! One minor correction, the tap water it's fine by all health standards, in newer flat complexes that might house an AirBNB the plumbing it's new, but in older buildings that plumbing was probably rotten. I live in Cluj in a newly built apartment complex, I can trust the water that comes within the legal health norms (I tested it). But I also own a old 1980's commie flat in the city and that water it's only good for taking a shower as the central plumbing was never changed since the flat got built (old poor pensioner neighbours), I never used it for cooking, I had a kitchen reverse osmosis filter where the filter would be done in less than 3 months, because of all the rust and sediments. When in Romania my advice would be bottled water (all of them are fine), as almost it is spring water, you would rarely see treated tap water bottled.

Regarding the train: No need to go the station before. The state railways, the CFR and the companies smaller regional lines have all well working websites and apps.

@Anton43218

8 ай бұрын

Lol, no.

Russian speaking here its almost like chinese no one knows it ^^

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Certainly a misconception that some have though

@GB-bx6gz

8 ай бұрын

IDISUDA ⚡️ 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 !!! No way in Romania 🇷🇴 to be brothers with Russia !!!! ☠️ We enjoy other cultures like Italian/ Spanish/French ❤

@CorneliuManescu-qf7rt

3 ай бұрын

E bine să studiezi cultura unei țări, înainte de a o vizita. Să comentezi o tară după ce ai vizitato e o mare diferență "my friend,,. Școala pentru mulți alți a lipsit din educația lor. 😢😢😢

romanians do not speak russian,maybe the older generations,+60 years old,because it was taught in schools,also,there are no similarities between the russian and the romanian languages,romanian being a latin language closer to italian,spanish,french and portuguese

@gundabalf

8 ай бұрын

There are lots of similarities between russian and romanian language, romanian having a strong slavic influence.

@adiherenow

8 ай бұрын

@@gundabalf more than 70% of romanian language has a latin root,the so called 'strong slavic influence' only accounts for like between 15 and 20 % and is slavic not russian

@ionelghiorghita688

8 ай бұрын

​@@adiherenowactually the slavic peoples came over the thracians borrowing a lot of words from them. În the romanian dictionary (Dex) bună the words from the religion area are considered to be în romanian from the slavic language but the slavic peoples became cristhians hundreds of years after the romanians. So it suppose that for a few hundreds 4:16 of years they were using others words or they changed all of them when the russians became christians. This îs what means the Kazars russians communist hegemony.

@Sleepingsun40

7 ай бұрын

@@gundabalf Lots of similarities?Like what?Da niste exemple din alea multe....dar da multe,ca asa te-ai exprimat....

@luminitasimionescu1026

Ай бұрын

@@gundabalfyou are Romanian?

Thanks sir My name shankar lal saini from india

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching

@sarojsaini6137

9 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKermis your vedio very nice

Romanian language is light years away (even if we have some words borrowed and we use) from the Russian language and not "relatively close" as you mentioned....Romanian is a Latin language (in fact some studies reveals that is the opposite) and Russian is slavic.

@ChrisKermis

7 ай бұрын

You misunderstood what I was saying. Russia is relatively close in terms of distance, not language.

@Sleepingsun40

7 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKermis OK,thanks for the heads up.

By the way, in what concerns the weather, especially in Brasov, with 2 sunny months a year, I say ''Welcome to Engl...ummm...Brasov''...Haha, I know...Now: The more you know (to correct your statements a bit) : -Russian is as ''similar'' to Romanian as English is to French -Credit cards: if I shop online I can choose to pay online, or cash at my door or, if not, the delivery guy has a POS app on his phone and I can pay right then and there with my card if I feel uncomfortable displaying my card online (I've never seen this available in England, where I live) -Trains: Are you friggin kiddin me??? Been doing Milton Keynes to London every weekend, delays every time, on arrival too...but nice applogies though...feels like Romania allover again -Potholes...REALLY??? Can i show you Milton Keynes side streets? Any side streets... And this city is just 65 years old...I can only imagine older cities in the rest of England... -Lastly...petty theft, theres less in big cities of Romania and less violence (domestic or public) than in England Honestly, sometimes it feels like i traded down...I do love the weather though... Lotsa love from a Romanian from the picturesque green Milton Keynes!

@lucianboar3489

9 ай бұрын

Nope, French and English might be more similar.

@sergerea

9 ай бұрын

@@lucianboar3489 I agree

Russian is not close to Romanian at all lol, Romanian is a Romance language and it's closer to Latin than the Italian language. And the country Russia is not close to Romania, Germany is closer to Romania than Russia.

Everything you say about Tepes is a bedtime story. He was a just leader. If he had been like that in our times, all things would have gone very well and the prisons empty. People only know out of fear.

HEY WHERE DO I GO TO FIND THE WEREWOLVES AND VAMPIRES? ROMANIA HAS THAT STUFF, RIGHT?

@sebit9731

Күн бұрын

Right! Try Hollywood, California.

What you mean by "That's the way are things here " because it's raining one day or two and maybe next rainy day will be next year ?😁 Romania is not UK...

@valevisa8429

8 ай бұрын

June this year was very rainy in Transylvania.Also the spring i heard was.

I’m from Romania

What's the best time of year to visit Romania?

@valimatei9

8 ай бұрын

If you want to celebrate a Romanian Christmas go in December!

Some handy tips there but here is one not covered. It's almost embarrassing asking this, but you know, as one gets older body parts tend to play up! So here is the question. Are Toilets generally clean and well maintained in bars, restaurants and hotels? Also for a solo traveller how long is not too long and not too short to spend there. The rule of thumb for my personal travels is ten days.

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

No problem, I found that they were always clean and well maintained when I was there in bars, restaurants and tourist sites like museums. I stayed in an apartment but can't imagine them being bad in hotels. In terms of how long to stay, it depends on your itinerary. On my last trip I spent about 9 days in Sibiu and Brasov, then one week in Bucharest. This last time was one week in Cluj-Napoca. A week was more than I needed for Cluj, but I did have days where I just worked.

@nydydn

9 ай бұрын

Generally speaking, toilets are clean, but don't always count on it. E.g. toilets in trains are more likely to be dirty than clean. Toilets in restaurants are maybe 9 out of 10 times clean, and in bars maybe only 7-8 times out of 10 clean. Big gas station toilets, if you choose to rent a car, are also usually clean, small gas stations are hit and miss. So if you'll be in Romania for a short time, you are unlikely to see more than 1-2 dirty toilets, more if you're unlucky, none if you're lucky.

@sergerea

9 ай бұрын

Toilets in public venues are super clean, much more so than a few reputable hotels I met in England.

in Romania this year, i don t think it rained more than 10 times

As an Romanian i like and agree with formula 1 drivers in city capital!🤣

@ChrisKermis

8 ай бұрын

😂

Nice explanation video when you go to Romania. But the food is also good,.kzread.info/dash/bejne/gpxtytCknpOwoag.html .I like your video👌👍

Romanian has nothing to do with russian, correct ! It's a latin language poorly influenced by slavik. Overall the clip is good and romanians are not rroma, corect. Romanians are friendly yet in large cities beware of pickpokets as anywhere. Infractionality is, for god's sake, low even very low. A gorgeous country to explore !

You did the worst faux pas. Rusian is not at all close to romanian. Latin is-70 procent. We have slavonic (and i wil belive that are thracian words adopted in slavic countries via Bulgarians and the orthodox church, not viceversa. When we were here, rusia was a swap with barbarian tribes).

@ChrisKermis

9 ай бұрын

To an outsider it could seem that way though, and my point is that visitors should not think that Romanians can speak Russian.

@CorneliuManescu-qf7rt

3 ай бұрын

​@@ChrisKermis nu mai forța cu limba rusă. Eu am 55 de ani. Am făcut limba rusă la școală. Nici un elev din școală nj știa limba rusă. Profesorul ne trecea anul școlar pt faptul că eram buni la altă materii. Așa se întâmplă în toată România. În orașul meu nu îmi aduc aminte dacă erau 3 sau 4 vorbitori de limbă rusă. Și aceia erau bătrâni care făcuse WW2 în Rusia. Bunicul meu a învățat mai repede germană în 4 ani de război în Rusia decât limba rusă. Tu când te duci la școală să înveți ceva despre tara mea...???

@ChrisKermis

3 ай бұрын

@@CorneliuManescu-qf7rt So you say that very few people speak Russian, and so do I. It seems to me that we agree.

This part of the world - the entire ex-communist block - is inhabited by great people: hospitable, laid-back, sane (more or less...), open, etc. You'll have the best time here if you'll observe, respect and obey this one rule: DON'T be an a$$hole! That's it!

You the best

@ChrisKermis

8 ай бұрын

Thank you!

Don't listen to him,you can do whatever you want in Romania.

@ChrisKermis

7 ай бұрын

Great tip, let me pin this comment 😂

To all the ignorant commentators: "I got a few tips for you..." - Vlad Tepes

@ChrisKermis

8 ай бұрын

😂😂🤣

@valevisa8429

8 ай бұрын

Buna !

Romanian is absolutely NOT close to russian. Closest to romanian is italian.

@ChrisKermis

6 ай бұрын

I know, you misunderstood what I was saying. The countries are fairly close geographically.

@augustiniumihaila4466

6 ай бұрын

@@ChrisKermis Bucharest - Monfalcone 983 km. Bucharest - Veselo Voznesenka 2002 km. If we admit Crimeea as russian, then Bucharest-Sevastopol 500 km. So ....

1:30 Romanian language has nothing to do with orcs russian. Romanian language is a Latin language. It's more like Italian, Spanish and French. Like 70-80% similarities. There are only couple of Slavic words. Inform yourself better next time.

@ChrisKermis

10 күн бұрын

Never said it was, you misunderstood.

Forgot to not drop your wallet

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Let me pin this comment so others can learn from this handy tip!

@dacian_1346

10 ай бұрын

It’s not the UK here…

@ChrisKermis

10 ай бұрын

Thanks also for the useful tip! 😂

@Daniel-lh4do

8 ай бұрын

i forgot my wallet here in a market and i foud it wiht mononey in it the second day..

@ChrisKermis

8 ай бұрын

@@Daniel-lh4do That's amazing!

💙💛❤️

Roma is an ethnic group coexisting amongst the majority of the Romanians. Romanians are not an ethnic group, they are the large majority. Other important ethnic groups are Hungarians, Germans, Ukrainians, etc.

@lucianboar3489

9 ай бұрын

You don't know the definition of ethnic group. You confuse it with the term "majority". No, the world population is conposed of ethnic groups. For example the ethnic Germans are the majority ethnic group of Germany. And Romanians of Romania.

@LeviGabriel-mb9ot

8 ай бұрын

Jura te pe roșu...😂

@davidionescu2103

6 ай бұрын

Si romanii tot grup etnic sunt, doar ca sunt majoritari, restul sunt grupuri etnice minoritare.