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and things like that but I would say the biggest thing about Ukraine that I
appreciate at this point a lot is just the vibe of how the people are behaving
interacting and socializing is very much different.
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Welcome back everybody to the Tsar Experience video
podcast with me Conor Clyne and today I have a really special guest I'm really
excited about this one I am here with Danny from hash tag got a world to see
YouTube channel and we have you know an interesting history of kind of like
stalking each other a little bit on the Internet yeah basically I was actually
here in Odessa last year last summer and YouTube suggested a video for Danny
because he'd actually been traveling in Ukraine now the time I didn't know
anything about him kind of reached out to him on Instagram and you know we
chatted over the last year we exchange a lot of ideas and it turns out
that Danny was actually born here in Ukraine I think that's what makes his
story particularly interesting if you guys are interested in traveling
Eastern Europe because he was born here and then moved and grew up in Germany
and now he comes back to Ukraine quite regularly. He has family connections here of
course that live in Ukraine here in Odessa and Zaporozhe which
is in the center of Ukraine and has a big dam and all this kind of stuff and
Khortytsia island so that might be something that you want to check out if you go
there and today we're gonna talk about what it's like firstly I'm going to
introduce Dany and then we're gonna talk a
little bit about what it's like to come back and things that he really
appreciates having grown up in Germany when he comes here to Ukraine and this
is really like getting the local perspective because he was born and
has the family here but he also understands what it's like to grow up in
Western Europe so I think that's a very interesting perspective Dany welcome
all right thank you very much for having me so obviously right now I only said a
few words on this channel and you're gonna think like hey I hope there's not
too much of an accent in my English speaking and the way Conor introduced
me is like I know how it is to grow up in the western world but basically the
reality is that it's the only reality i really know so as he correctly said I
was born in Ukraine specifically in Zaporozhe and my
family emigrated to Germany when I was like six so basically all my life I grew
up in Germany been to Ukraine regular really yes but I've already been talking
to Conor but at this point he knows the city much better than I do he has
been to Ukraine probably a lot more than I have and just my backstory basic I'm
21 years old and for the most part I would say I grew up in Germany
I haven't been traveling much and at some point like three four years ago I
said to myself I want to see the world I want to experience something more and I
was actually sick and tired of going only to Ukraine on family vacations so
this was kind of like the point where I did my first few trips I really fell in
love with traveling and this is how I also started my youtube channel I would
say around the year ago as Conor mentioned he's seen some of my Ukraine
videos on those have actually been my very first few I think like from my big
trip that I did last year I've been gone over ten months those have been the
first two three travel videos and I was actually it was actually pretty
interesting that those were the videos that he actually started to notice and
yes since then everything has been going pretty crazy I've been traveling to 16
different countries and now coming back to Ukraine actually at this point I
start to see it with different eyes and I would say I appreciate it even more
and to me plays kind of like a different role as I said before I was a little bit
sick of it I was a little bit bored I thought Ukraine is just it's so it's
okay but it's nothing special so yeah we can get into that you can just ask me
any specific questions I think that's really interesting it's what a lot of
people experienced like even I experienced growing up
in Ireland it required me to actually leave the country and come back right
with a fresh perspective to really appreciate it
so having what you how is the last year of travelling affected how you view
Ukraine what do you now really appreciate having because Dany you
should go and check out his channel of course I'm gonna link it below in the
description and the show notes if you're listening to this on the podcast and
he's been travelling to a lot of countries he's ... the reason why his
English is so perfect he actually spent some time in America but American
horrible accident he has a better accent is a better english than me almost I
think at this stage and he travelled to Southeast Asia with his girlfriend
primary that was more mostly trip was and how has that affected how you now
view Ukraine because having lived in Germany you came back to see you know a
lot and it wasn't really you were like I go home to see the folks he weren't
super enthusiastic what has changed what has changed it and what you really
appreciate what are the highlights for you now coming back those are the main
reasons that they change it for me as I said have being an immigrant family in
Germany obviously the summer vacation was always going home so while all my
friends have been going to Spain Italy France for me it was always going back
to Ukraine I was happy about it was always a cool time it was kind of like
leaving the world of living in Germany and going to Ukraine but I was just
thinking it's kind of like in a lot of ways Ukraine is a little bit old-school
especially when it comes to things like infrastructure just sometimes the types
of cars that are riding around here is still a lot of things that kind of like
in Soviet times setting but I would say would really bit a change I would say
after my first bigger trip through Europe with a few of my friends we have
been to Paris Rome Dublin actually at my end oh that's good
I loved all of the cities I would say Paris not as much so no hate I like the
city but I would I would say I was surprised because of notice that Odessa
especially where we're sitting right now has on the one side a lot of
similarities just on the back there you have a lot of just cultural sites and
buildings that have a very old history and especially the Opera House have been
just walking around yesterday shooting here the Opera House where people know
as the same architect as the architect as in Vienna's Opera House it's something
you're gonna see if you come to Odessa it's like it has a lot of Western
European influence in the architecture there's a statute of Richelieu of course
the famous banking family that had obviously interests all around Europe
and their Deribasovskaya this guy the guy was De Ribas he had a Spanish name when I was
telling the Spanish or Italian and you have the Opera House if you look at the
architecture love it it doesn't look so different what you're gonna see in other
parts of Western Europe which is unusual and that's because the city was built
quite late it's only about 225 years old and yeah des mean right the Russians
conquered this from the Ottoman Empire and then the Tartars and the Turks who lived
here left so they've kind of built a new city on top of that and that's what
surprises like my dad came and he was like wow you know when he saw the
architecture was not as Soviet as he thought was expecting here there's a lot
of history and we're actually see here in Istanbul Park so this actually has
some things that are actually it's been renovated and then later said you have
the Greek Park that's been built on let's go Greek or Athens Park and that's
actually cuz the Greeks have a lot of history in this region as well there was
actually a you know even a Greek consulate here in the city so that's
something that people you know get as a different you know an unexpected
attraction when they come here when they come yeah I agree for sure which would
be like super honest those wasn't this was not the thing that was pumping me up
this was not what I was going crazy about you know traveling through the
cities and then seeing a Odessa it's nice I would say I would say the
biggest thing is just the energy of this city and besides of it actually I just
thought everything in other cities and counters would be bigger better and
nicer so this was not the case talking just about architecture and things like
that but I would say the biggest thing about Ukraine that I appreciate at this
point a lot is just the vibe of how the people are behaving interacting and
socializing is very much different so especially coming from Europe Germany
and overall Western Europe when traveling through there there are huge
differences but still it's kind of like more of a European vibe I don't know you
can really grasp rather if that's something that you can really say like
that but coming to what Eastern Europe it just starts to be very different for
me kind of like going back to Ukraine is kind of like getting into a bubble you
could say of a very different influence and here I personally can really
disconnect sometimes it really can't find time to really relax and forget
kind of like the life back at home the troubles back at home this is what I
personally appreciate about Ukraine for me it's just so social so much different
everything when you walk around it just makes you think different and feel
different and it's just a completely different world there are not that many
similarities when it just comes to I don't know maybe it's not the best
example to give but I feel like just it's it's a little bit more old-school
so when it comes to just the type of relationships people are having is more
traditional the woman usually are just let me say it like that usually I don't
know it's maybe stupid to say but here I feel like people are going are more
outgoing right now we have a Thursday afternoon in this place it's absolutely
packed you see it's dozens of couples running around you see a bunch of young
people and it's I feel like just the vibe is different than in Germany and
this is something that I just started obviously to notice while being out and
about you know for the whole of last year so while this is very abstract what
I'm saying that's just how I feel I would say just by being in like a really
huge major cities like Hong Kong Singapore in Asia let's say even even
even places like Los Angeles California New York City
those are like I would say my favorite cities and I thought I would like them
way way way much better than Odessa and it's not the case I gotta say that just
when it comes to going out and the dining places and just when it go goes
to kind of like relax and having a good time
Odessa is probably in my top three 100% maybe because I'm a little bit greedy
I'm a little bit very financially cautious so I don't like to spend a lot
of money because I want to travel a lot I want to save my budget for that and
that's why I maybe can enjoy being on Odessa a lot more because everything
here is like price said like fifty percent of a Western price maybe even
less we have been saying like around one-third of a price I think about one
third to be honest because I used to live in the southern Germany in Munich
and I've spent a lot of time in London so it all depends what your particular
point of reference is in terms of prices but I compared to traveling in Western
Europe and I mean like France or Belgium or somewhere like that the Netherlands
it's it's getting close to to a third it just depends on what you're doing
exactly but I think for the top level stuff yeah I would say it's like a third
I'm just going out unless I felt like the prices rose in the last year prices
are definitely more expensive here than last year is definitely 20% more
expensive I would say but we're starting from an extremely low base I actually
remember coming here like before the crisis before your am I done before the
Revolution and it was not that cheap at all it was actually only a little bit
cheaper than Western Europe and now it's of course a lot cheaper and as Danny
just said the fact that you can be basically a baller here for a third of
the price of trying to do that I mean I was joking with some of my friends
because an Instagram stories was a girl who I'm a friend of and she was doing
Nikki Beach in San Tropez that's where I'm trying to think ... Nikki Beach was of
course a very glamorous place apparently to to hang out and I know a table there
cost forty thousand euros for the afternoon and she was there with all
these guys like popping bottles of champagne whenever and she was filming
and I was just thinking yeah you know what it doesn't really look that much
different in what we do here but ain't gonna cost you forty thousand dollars or
forty thousand euros to do that right so that's one of the things that Danny said
you can really appreciate you can basically ... if you want to be a bunch of travel
here that's fine of course it everything is also going to be a third cheaper of
doing that in Western Europe but if you really want to go big and have like a
crazy party experience like I often do when I'm here that's also gonna be just
a fraction of the cost and a lot of my friends even said that they've been to
those places spend that money and they actually preferred it here even relevant
of the prices as you said that the the energy the vibe is just a lot more
pleasant in a place like Odessa right now this moment 2018 so that's good
yeah I think after we make these kind of videos is gonna change very quickly
obviously it's gonna become more famous but I think that's happening anyways I
think the cat's out of the bag ... I hope so the people so what else did the energy
that's the thing that you felt is there what other things you you alluded there a
little bit to the dynamics of relationships with women a little bit
there's more news about that a little bit I wouldn't say it's something that I
necessarily enjoy it's not really something that I focus on just solely I
would say just the the complete package of just to give you an example I'm sure
in Kiev there are bad areas as well but when I first time I've been with my
girlfriend in Kiev two years ago we arrived there at like 11 p.m. and I said
to myself we're probably gonna stay in our apartment not gonna go out but then
we decided yeah we want to get a water we want to maybe get a few snacks we
went out and the city was just full of life people were staying at restaurants
couples were strolling around in the streets around midnight and we stayed
around 2:00 3:00 in the morning we didn't see any person who was like I
don't know going out of lane running around drunk or just someone that seemed
like who wants to harm anyone which I wouldn't seriously don't get me wrong
it's not like the super safest place one of the safest countries is Singapore
this is like a culture that I talk about on my channel all the time so it's not
like that you're gonna you're gonna see obviously there's you can find trouble
everywhere but for some reason this is this is what I meant by it would like
this dynamic of a more traditional relationship maybe in a way what I just
meant is that I feel like in where I'm coming from the places where people go
out to dine and party for some reason I don't know why I feel like a lot of
people are looking for trouble there are like groups of dudes running around and
you don't really have that here here everyone I feel like everyone when
they're going out they're going out to have a good time and they don't want
anyone else to mess it up so what you're gonna see in the streets of like leisure
activities with restaurants you're just gonna see everyone having a good time
pretty much I've never a single time encountered in
Odessa like a situation where I personally felt like unsafe or on
because and I do I do often in to feel like that in nightlife situations in
Germany for example in clubs or just like it's it's just often feels a little bit
tense it doesn't feel like as chill as it does here but it's very abstract what
I'm describing right now no I can relate to that actually because I definitely
have a lot more problems in London especially with aggression of violence
and I've ever had in like years yeah it's just like there's a there's a less
there's definitely and if you go to place like Ireland or the United Kingdom
I would say then I came a little bit more than iron it is definitely a
undertone of aggression like in that everybody went out to have a good time
they went out to cause trouble and just to and release their aggression on who
and someone unsuspecting near to them and I've never experienced that either
here in Ukraine I think the biggest yeah once or twice guys got jealous cuz I was
with some girls they like that thing that's about it and it was like maybe
twice ever in the 500 times I've gone out in in in Odessa probably so it's
very rare that there any issues and just that as he said like the energy the
atmosphere it's just really fucking cool to be honest that's it's basically to
sum it up yeah just to add to the whole dining and you said about like tables
being very expensive at places I personally never had those experiences
really but just to add to the fact that when I went off and traveling to all of
those bigger major cities at some point I said like hey let's spend a little bit
of budget to go to a nice place and I and I always had to say that those nice
places were up and spending four or five times about the money that I would stay
here to go out I didn't like them nearly as much as here and I feel like here is
a huge diversity of places and there I don't know if that's correct but I feel
like they're privately owned because they're very much different you don't
have the feeling of chains of restaurants if for example in Germany if
you go to the inner cities they're gonna be like four or five major chains and
maybe like two or three pubs and that's pretty much it not in that not in every
city but in my city for sure and here in Odessa and especially in the leaf I feel
like there are places that are extremely unique and original for again a fraction
of the price so often telling to my girlfriend
we want to move out to a new city at this point moment and I've been checking
on the flights we're going quite frequently to leave and I've been
telling her hey if we want to go out and have a good weekend we're gonna pay less
getting a flight to Lviv then doing the same stuff staying yeah yeah
definitely Lviv what I have notice the last two years is actually their
successful a lot of these successful bars and restaurants it actually started
to open got to franchise actually here in Ukraine so it's already happening
like for example a drunken cherry Пяний Вишня you know in Odessa and I'm
pretty sure like Kompot has one where we had a coffee earlier there is one now
I've seen at Ocean Plaza in Kiev but in general he's what he's saying is
completely right it's gonna be a unique bar or restaurant that you go to in
general there isn't so many chains and that kind of gives every little city a little
bit of a different vibe Lviv as I've alluded to is a beautiful place in the west of Ukraine
and it looks a lot more Polish because it was actually part of Poland at one
stage and European in terms our architecture the people they speak
Ukrainian as their first language and it has a little bit more of that
traditional Ukrainian vibe in that sense whilst here in Odessa it's more a
mixture an international vibe I mean one of my favorite cuisines are you here
is actually Georgian food I think like here example as amazing Georgian
restaurants just absolutely all my friends who come boom we go to a
Georgian restaurant gonna be which ones there will be the food Khachapuri for
example right which is like the bread with cheese in it you know this
khachapuri po adjarski has the egg in it then you have of course khinkali
like these big raviolis that are stuffed the juice and delicious then you have a lot
of stews and great Georgian wine to wash it down there just blows me away
great I think that's pretty good for I think you guys have got a lot of value
out of that you got a perspective a forum a German was actually born who
used to come back and I think it was like we're going to Ukraine and now he's
travelled around the world and it's amazing YouTube channel Dany's it's one
of my favorite on you it's gonna be I don't know this this time next year boom
he's already a huge star he's gonna be massive with which with real merit I
really love watching his stuff so go check him out I'm gonna of course link
his channel below and now you've gotten a really interesting person
- if you know a guy who was born here immigrated to Germany grew up as a
you know in an Ukrainian immigrant family in Germany comes back having travelled
the world and really sees what this place has to offer so Dany thanks a
million for sharing everything and everyone go down check it out so that's
it from today's podcast episode до свидания из Одессы in Ukraine!
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