This breaks my heart to see what Putin has done to Ukraine. What a pretty place. 😭

@BjrnOttoVasbottenbjovas

6 ай бұрын

#NotJustPutin

I like how the place makes you feel like have travelled back in time and most of all how clean it is

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

It is the perfect place to just relax and heal the soul 😊

Yay. Another great video. I love to see all the beautiful landscapes, the people, the culture and the food. Kids are kids the same all over the world. Always wanting money. 😂😂😂. Stay safe. Always so good to see you two. ❤️

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, everyone is an entrepreneur at 9/10 😁❤️

Another lovely trip walk with you. Thank you. Wishes from Sri Lanka. ..

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Anura 😊 love to Sri Lanka!

What a lovely video! The morning clouds in the mountains was beautiful. The town's were so quaint. Safe travels. I look forward to seeing the next one. ☺💕

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Julie, so glad you enjoyed it ☺️ thank you for your ongoing support! ☺️❤️

My wife spent some time in the Ukraine as an exchange student there. She would like to revisit. It looks like the locals in the village are quite friendly. Rakhiv has that small town charm with beautiful landscapes. The food looks all soooo goood. Thanks guys for another nice vlog and Thank You for allowing us to come along for ride. Your biggest fans. Harriet and Jim Richmond, Va.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Ah how interesting! Whereabouts in Ukraine? ☺️ It is so beautiful! 😍 Thank you so much for your support guys! 😍

@costasworldofmusicmemories5792

2 жыл бұрын

@@MattandJulia My wife lived in Kyiv and Odessa and went to school at Pavlo Tychyna Uman State Ped University. It was years ago. She enjoyed her time there.

Watching from philippines .🌍

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Love to the Philippines 😊🇵🇭

Especially liked the drone shots. Very nice video, so glad I found your channel.

Hello from Texas I just wanted to say Ukraine is such a beautiful place. And I also got to know 6 young beautiful girls from there. Today they are married living in the states one in Germany. They still talk to me when we have the time. I love watching and learning about this beautiful Country. 🇺🇦

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Rosemary! Interesting! It really is an incredible country ❤️

Your film seem to last seconds. This is some of the best. No the very best editing I have ever seem in the hundreds of travel videos I’ve looked at. I know the Carpathian Mountains very well and you have shown me some thing new. Congratulations on another outstanding video. Sorry to go on but the cutting from mid landscape to far landscape to close landscape is incredible.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Chris, really appreciate your kind words ☺️😍❤️

The music selection on this video was especially nice. And I love seeing all the beautifully presented food selections. I'm eager to visit Ukraine next month. You've multiplied my excitement to meet the people and try their food.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it! 🤗

Lovely colours in this video - especially the blue and gold church and the purple car matching with Julia's purple rucksack! 😄

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, Julia love her 'dora the explorer' backpack 😁

Beautiful ❤️ vedio amazing matt and Julia ❤️

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Mohamed 😍❤️

@mohamedebrahim4983

2 жыл бұрын

You wellcom matt and Julia ❤️

So pretty and peaceful. Love the houses. Ahhhhhh. . .

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

It is such a stunning area 😍

Like....Make sure have some home made Grape Wine you see on the side of the road side

I have just found your channel and have been watching it for days, you both are lovely people visiting such beautiful countries,😊🇦🇺

Appreciate your video as much as you are less, very good place ❤️

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Sandeep ❤️

It seems to peaceful there. Very quaint and beautiful

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

It is really peaceful ☺️

I always love village life, thanks for showing us again.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome Margarita ☺️❤️

Interestingly, a lot of European countries have their own geographical centre of Europe

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, we have since discovered 😁 very strange haha

The little village is so cute and quiet 🤫

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

It is so picturesque! 😍

Love your videos, Matt & Julia and love to see you both eating such unusual foods. Do continue to describe what the foods are.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you do much Sonia ☺️❤️

That village is so quaint. I loved the gold domed church with the blue. Lovely.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

It is such a lovely place! And the guesthouse owners were incredible 😍☺️

Congratulations from india..... Keep up travelling 😁😎😀

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😊 Love to India ❤️

Lovely vlog...I love the Carpathians, so beautiful and peaceful. So what was that scrumptious breakfast at the end of the video? They looked like corn cakes.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you do much, so glad you enjoyed it ❤️ They were "Syrniki" ☺️

Judging by all the baby strollers, Rakhiv is quite a fertile town too... 😳😉 Kvasy is such a beautiful, peaceful and rustic village nestled in that beautiful valley and you captured the atmosphere so perfectly in your video!

So beautiful city 🏙️ 🌞 and so beautiful valley 🕌🏞️🗻 ... cheese 🧀 my all'time favourite dish 🍛🍚

What a lovely town!!! Those drone shots were stunning!

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Cristina! 😊

@YogendraSingh-rw6hx

2 жыл бұрын

@@MattandJulia i like to come but need good friend. How to find good friend from village

So beautiful and so calm I absolutely wish I could live there forever . Greetings from South African Boer.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Pieter! Lots of love to SA! ❤️

Hi ,Matt &Julia . I lot of Thaks for your videos. Betiful landscpes and wonderful locations , what a great movements. Thanks.

Lovely Channel. Thanks Matt and Julia

It’s been a few years since we were in Ukraine. But yes everything seemed to be a cash only society. And 1 out of 3 ATM’s working seems about normal. We worked with a translator and my wife thought she was drinking tomato juice in the morning. So one morning my wife got one. The shocked look on her face was amazing. When she got her voice back she says “now I know how to get a Bloody Mary” Still wondering were we that difficult that our translator needed to start her day with Alcohol? Thanks for bringing back memories.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Haha, so funny! 😂😂 You are so welcome for the memories, glad you enjoyed it ❤️

So pretty!! 😍

Beautiful! 💗💗

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Barbara 😊❤️

That was so serene and picturesque.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

It is a stunning part of the world 😍

All Ukraine is not the same as we see here. It is different. But here we see a beautiful corner of this country. Very good and easy to show it. Here we are all, all Ukrainians are resting in soul and consciousness ... You reminded me of this place. I am excited. Thanks!

@migi4277

2 жыл бұрын

After 1919 it was the part of Czechoslovakia. As part of Soviet Ukraine became after WW2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpathian_Ruthenia#History?wprov=sfla1

wow nice video, good sceneries of Rakhiv, Ukraine

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much Muhammad! 😊❤️

Good villages of Ukraine. I love it

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Do glad you enjoyed it 😊 x

@mankwediseunane770

2 жыл бұрын

@@MattandJulia. Keep updating us. I really loves your videos

@user-xn6ud6yc8m

8 ай бұрын

💙💛 неllou...👋 / 👋🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲🌳🌲 💙💛 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦 👍👍👍

Beautiful! Where did you find the guest house?? Airbnb or something else? Looks like an amazing place!

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Booking.com, it is called ZarinSki, beautiful family ☺️

Hi Julia and Matt, Hope You Guys are DOING good and God Bless YOU.

Very beautiful places,.thank u for sharing❤

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it 😊❤️

Fantastic. I only discovered you guys a couple of months ago so I have a lot of videos to catch up on. I'd love to know which languages you both speak. The problem I have is that growing up in UK I feel it really wasn't encouraged to learn other European languags at all, to everyone's detriment.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😊 we speak two languages fluently, English and Russian 😊 Yeah unfortunately, us Brits are quite bad with learning other languages. It is a shame becuase it opens so many doors, not to mention a whole new culture 😊

I love these villages! So quaint and beautiful

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Good for the soul 😊

Looks like you guys had a great time! I've always wanted to go to the 'geographical center of Europe' but haven't made it yet. But the Carpathians are lovely -- not as impressive as some other European mountain ranges, I know, but so relaxing.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

They certainly aren't as high or sharp but there is just something incredibly relaxing and homely about the Carpathians 😍

@tonyhussey3610

2 жыл бұрын

@@MattandJulia this is how I feel about the Pyrenees in Spain/France... Not overly dramatic but Soo beautiful, quiet and peaceful... I prefer it like that...

that was beautiful stunning landscapes keep up the great work steve

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Steve 🙌

I love the village ... Thanks!

What a beautiful place 🙏🏻♥️

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

It is incredible 😍❤️

I was drinking kvass when I was in SSSR, it's a typical summer drink. They have it also in Balticum. In Sweden we have svagdricka, it also a summer drink.

This is good to see and interesting. Not sure why you have not more subscribers. Stay objective but Freely express what is going on in your travels. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Your channel came apparent on 9/24/2021.

Omg, unbelievable beautiful cottage.... So peaceful!!

It looks beautiful there love watching your videos

Catching up on your brilliant videos,sadly become unemployed,so have lots of time on my hands...so making good use of my time🙂 Спасибо 💐 💐

Every location you were started there is the goal of your destination. Don't stop to rides of your path. RS

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙂

"Center of Europe"... what an excellent excuse for a gift shop and tchotchetorium. Anyway, it's a pretty town.

@msjannd4

2 жыл бұрын

☺

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

😉😉😉 Make a good name for a video too 😁😉

@zaingamer4060

2 жыл бұрын

Yah

@Indiavillagelifemuchmore

2 жыл бұрын

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Extraordinary extraordinary extraordinary video

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! 😊

Such a beautiful country,its criminal what's happening now

Beautiful video

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😊

Beautiful 🇲🇰❤️🇺🇦

Simply nicely done ✔ and great story 👏 👍

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Christian 😊❤️

The geographic center of Europe is located in Lithuania, 26 km North of Vilnius.

💙💙💙

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

😊😊😊❤️❤️❤️

Seen many videos of Ukraine, but so far this is the best.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 🤗🙌🏼

Both are beautiful

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

Wow, that garden where you stayed was gorgeous! Julia, how do you travel in white? I would spill something on myself 1 hour into it.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

It is one the best guest houses we’ve seen 😍 Hahaha, it’s a constant struggle to be honest 😄😂😂

@zaingamer4060

2 жыл бұрын

👍👍

Beautiful couple “”MashAllah “God save you “”

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😊

Nice, beautiful, neat and quite places. I liked the cream dish you had for dinner. I guess you hv to have cash and speak the local language to survive ? 😀 Thanks !! 🙏

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Eeerm, it's always best to know few words. But you will find people that speak English 😊

what a beautiful place👍

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more 😊

Awesome 👍

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😘

I love Ukraine!! Never been there, its at the other side of the World but seems sooo familiar!!!

One more excellent video

What nationality are you two and how many languages do you speak. I was trying to find a video on how you two met, and maybe the beginning of how you started this. I watched the first video but it doesn’t really say how this all started.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Pat we are doing a Q and A video very soon where we wil ltry to answer everything 😊

Beautiful

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

It is an amazing area 😍

Beautiful place

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

Beautiful Ukraine village destinations ...!! Neatly maintained...!!! Thanks for sharing...!!! God Bless you both...!!!

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! ❤️

Still , you could have given the kids 2 dollars , they would remember that for life .

👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍

Nice I love that.come to Africa as well

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

We definitely will at some point! 😊

Very beautiful village

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

It is a lovey place 😊

As far as I know another Hungarian village - Tállya - is the geographical center of Europe not Rahó. But doesn't matter the distance is app. 100 km.

the earliest roots of carpathian hutsul people who are living in ukrainian ivano-frankivsk + chirnivci + rakhiv raion & romanian suceava + maramures (they were called in 1100 AD the huci tribe and later came the romanian -ul ending) goes way back to the median busi tribe who were listed by herodot around 450 BC as one of the ancient westiranic median tribes, the busae. an oldiranic typicalness of some iranic languages or dialects was that not rarely happened that the bh sound shifted to h sound: busi>husi/huzi>huci & some variations of hutsul in romania are huzule or hutan. herodotus also wrote about the colonists from media called sigunians (shuhani is the main luri dialect and the lurs counts as one of the descendants of the antique medes), sigynians wore median clothing, had many median customs and they themselfes said (to herodot) they are descendants of the medes, so these median colonists sigynians settled sometime between 630 BC and 530 BC in transylvania. so i can bring some proofs/facts/similarities/expainings/theorizations to show the direct connection of proto-hutsuls with the medes, concretely the median busae tribe & the median sigynnian branch who settled in westromania. so genetically hutsuls are in first case a mixture of dacians/vlahs+slavs but from their origin(the old substrat) an iranic median sigynnian people (that means generally to a lesser degree median than dacian or vlahian or slavic but anyway enough genetically and lexicaly median percentage to be considered as a people of iranic/median origin). about when the sigynians came to transylvania exist 2 options, they left their homeland and moved via armenia/turkey to there around 640 BC (the following years after phraortes death when the things get bad for 28 years for the median kingdom because the assyrian-scythian mixed king made phraortes' son kyaxares for this time to a vassal in his own kingdom) or in the time around 540 BC (when the median kingdom collapsed and the persians took over). the historican strabo (who lived 63BC-23AD) wrote about siginians who lived near the south caspian sea (southwest caspia region like gilan & mazandaran & talysh mountains that means the areas where today gilaks, mazandaranis, talishs live), these siginians were the ones who stayed in media kingdom and didn't leave like herodot's sigynnes. strabo said about these siginians that in general they practise persians customs and he mentioned like herodot their small horses race which were shaggy long haired flat-nosed/short-snooted ponies that pulled a chariot or cart in a four-horse-team also often driven by women, maybe that small horse race is related to the eastcarpathian hutul-horses/ponies (but as a newer mixed breeding that originated from the sigynnian horses). where is the connection of the median subbranch of the sigynnes (apollonios wrote them also as sigunnes with u) and the luri people? you can see it in the name of the shughani dialect speakers of the lurs. somewhere i also read that sigynians where described as living alongside with an unknown gaulaki or guylaki tribe (possibly the gilaks are meant to be them but i don't have a concrete source to that statement anyway they sure have to be that siginians from elburz mountains of strabo). but i want go back to the topic with proofs that the hutsuls of the carpathian mountains were in fact of iranic median sigynian origin, the ethnicon itself for example besides the most possible explaining that it comes from the median busi tribe name, has also another 4 theories of it's meaning and etymoligical roots (until today nobody could say or proof what the ethnonym ghucul really means), the 4 other theories what it means are all iranic median =luri/leki/kurd/gilaki/garmsiri/behdinani/balochi cognates: 1. it comes from the gilaki word for "mountain"="qukh"(but in a median dialectical way it is more possible cuz there was in earlier times a between-sound of the letter k & g (like kg) so like gkukh' that leads to ghukh+ul(adjective ending) so the proto-huculian(sigynian-orientated) word/ethnonym would mean "the people from the mountains/mountainous people"(meant are sure the carpathian mountains rather than elburz or talishs mountains in my opinion)=ghukhuls=ghuculs. 2. gilaki word "houz" for "lake" so hutsuls would mean " people who live by the lake" (speculative said maybe it could even be the caspian who counts as the biggest lake of the word or just one of the smaller lakes in the carpathian mountains) 3. garmsiri word (if zarandi dialect counts as garmsiri but it's anyway very close related to garmsirian jirofti or kahnuji or marzigal-bashkerdi dialects) "guch"="ram/ibex/capricorn/battering-ram/mountain-goat" that means guculs are "people associated with rams/got something to do with rams (of the mountains)" 4. gilaki word "ghut" for "immersion" that would mean ghutsul mean "(water)diver/aquanaut" (like i said i see in first case the connection of hucul/huci name with the busi/busai tribe and as the factly most possible explaining of the hutsul-ethnonym). following words are typical hutsulian and have ties to westiranic median descendants' languages(luri,garmsiri,gilaki,laki,etc.): an interessting exclusive huculian word (that is not to be found in ukrainian language) with etymological ties to neo-median(luri/gilaki/balochi/kurdi/behdinani/bashkardi) cause it sounds related to these two gilaki words by meaning "hooz"(lake/pond) & "ghut"(immersion/diving) is huculian word "ghuk" and means "waterfall" so connected with watermasses/lake/diving somehow. another exclusive huculian word (not found in ukrainian language) is "kootüga" and means "dog" while in the luri language "katu" is "dog" these words are really close and belong to median dialects in origin (besides that word for dog in luri and in median language exist a second word for dog in median "spak" and luri "sag"). a huculian word (not in ukrainian language again) for "farm-animals/domestic-animals/livestock-animals" is "marga" what you can compare to the luri & gilaki word "morg" for "chicken/hen/rooster" what sure is etymologicaly related with the hutsulian marga. a typical ukrainian word what means untypical for the other slavic languages (what could really possibly be borrowed by ukrainians from the carpatian regions where hutsuls live) is the word "gharny"="great" which can be compared to the garmsirian bashkardi word "gohrt"="big" but not so sure about that one, better would be to see the balochi word "shar"="good" as of same origin/roots with the ukrainian "harny/gharny"="great/good/amazing", but the bashkardi word "gohrt" fits really good to the typical ukrainian word "gurt"="group"(a group is big so synonymous to the meaning big/large & by the way that word gurt i really think has etymological ties to the ethnonym kurd cuz there are 2 versions explaining the ethnonym of the kurds either with the meaning big collected group or great-group/group of related tribes/people-group or a more chauvinistic meaning like big people/important ones/heroes/huge or strong people), and there is another word that is only typical for ukraine "khata"="house" what shares the same origin/meaning like the yazdi-behdinani word "khäda/khda"="house". one last word is huculian "bardka" for "axe" while in the "modern-zoroastrian" behdinani/gabri language (spoken by the behdinan people in yazdi dialect) "barda" is translated as "spade"(maybe including spade-chissel and trenching-spade) these two words are surely related, also in the luri language exists the word "bard" but it means "stone" but it could be anyway etymologically connected to these behdinanian and huculian words and even to the word "bronze". the proto-hutsul ethnos was surely formed in the maramures region and some bordering north-transilvania areas/northwest-romania where the sigynians sometime between 100-500 AD mixed with the surrounding dacian population & vlahian shepherds (you can see the hutsul has also from vlahian shepherds' something mixed in their culture/clothing/hats) and a bit later came the slavic component(tiverians & whitecroats) in their ethnogenesis. it was either so that proto-hutsuls stretched out their territory more wider out to the north namely ivano-frankivsk, zakarpatia, chirnivcy regions of southern-west ukraine or these 2 slavic tribes came down after 600 AD and mixed with the daco-vlaho-sigynian proto-huculs in the bordering areas (south)ivanofrankivsk/chirnivtsy, at that time proto-hutsuls were possibly already romanized or i would better said nearly/not complete romanized by language. sigunnians had 2000 years ago surely 2 median identities: the word siguni has to be the same as the name shuhani (what means one of the main dialects of lur people) so it's showed their median subbranch language-identity, but the other identity was the tribe-identity the word that would later become the ethnicon hucul that means they had seen themselfes as belonging to the husi/huzi/huci tribe what is a dialectical changing of the word busi, means the origin of the huculs can really might be the median busae tribe. the last thing i wanna say about the sigynians what herodot thought about what their ethnonym could be, that name he used to detonate as "spear" or on the other hand to associate it with "traders"(or "hucksters") but he just speculated.

Geografical center of Europe is in 🇵🇱 Poland north of Warsaw on the way to Belarus

Beautiful couple like your video exploring Ukraine beautiful villages it's heaven in earth .hope more countries, cuties ,villages if different country you show in your videos .thanks with love and regards🌹🌹🌹🇵🇰

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Khan, love to Pakistan, can't wait to visit! 🇵🇰❤️

@khankhan-ge6oi

2 жыл бұрын

@@MattandJulia thanks for reply hope soon you will visit Pakistan and will enjoy have beautiful places. Smiling couple love and regards 🌹🥀🌷💐🌸

Ukraine is very good. The warmest greeting from Bali

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, love to Bali ❤️

Love❤ to settle in Ukraine🇺🇦

So nice

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Stunning country

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely 😍

Looks very switzerlandi, what you ate looked like polenta

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

It certainly was, Polenta with cheese 😊

@lucycarlos4923

2 жыл бұрын

@@MattandJulia thanks, interesting.

i want end war😭🇺🇦

We Are Carpathian mountain people. Well, my dad, ☺️

It's over already? Make longer videos lol 🤣💕

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, we will try! 😀❤️😁

very.nice

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊

I wonder. How is the life in Carpathian region? What jobs do they get after graduating from schools? Would it be easier for women to find future husbands? Agriculture, Sightseeing...

V beutifull country n video v beutifull

Nice

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks 🤗

Where does the dude from Ghostbusters 2 live?

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

Just up the hill

Hi julia

Actually, the probably the best word for kvass is bread beer. And if there is one thing that is originally not supposed to be in kvass it's hops. Because it's basically a very very light beer made with old bread, without hops. Also, maybe a little bit too bad you didn't give the kids some change. I know it Could (just sometimes) give the wrong signal, but in my opinion: not in this case. And also: Why not.

@MattandJulia

2 жыл бұрын

If we didn't film something - doesn't mean we didn't do it 🙂

C.est.formidable..beaucoup........ville...contrey. mon.nom...est......MORTET. TOUATI. ..192.LOGEMENTS. .A.23....KHAROUBA...27000.ALGERIA........c.est.beau.votre.ville.j.aimé.visité ...merci

After a few videos, it is hard to watch. Beautiful scenery but there is poverty and an expensive artistic building next to the dirt and gravel roads.

Anyone a recipe to make a cider based on honey ?