NEVER EVER bring anything for other people across a border! Even for a friend! There are countless people in jail for smuggling hard drugs, because the "owner" has hidden drugs in whatever they want you to bring.
I had the same bus experience, about 36 years ago. A bus from northern Germany to Istanbul, with a change in Munich, about 24 hours all in all. Terrible, obnoxious, unfriendly bus drivers who always seemed to be in a huge rush, no matter what they were doing. They tore our bags out of our hands and threw them in the storage area as if the bus was two hours late leaving Munich although there were still over 30 minutes to departure time. This was in summer, and of course, just like with you, they refused to turn on the AC the whole way. A few people barely had room to sit because the drivers had loaded the rear seats up with about 100 packages of Pampers (which were apparently very expensive in Turkey). On the trip back, similarly impatient bus drivers forgot to release the brakes on a bagage trailer we were pulling behind the bus, resulting in a fire which partly burned some pasengers' luggage. Of course the bus drivers didn't care.
Alena, in the not-too-distant future you'll be able to look back at this trip as an adventure of personnel endurance in how to deal with adversity when everything is working against you, mostly likely this trip's memories will bring a smile to your face knowing you managed to prevail even when you felt exhausted and overwhelmed in a foreign land. Good going girls nothing can stop you.
Hi Alena. You are a very smart woman to refuse to help the lady with carrying stuff across the border. Who knows what troubles you may have incurred? I hope your trip back to Georgia is more comfortable.
I am so glad you didn't pass those cigarettes on. You didn't owe her anything and those cigarettes might not have been cigarettes but something illegal. I'm glad you made it to your destination okay. Did not sound like a fun trip.😊❤
Hello Alena! It is always a great pleasure to watch your videos as they are so well done! First of all I would like to say tha linguistic barriers are truly an important obstacle for tourists, especially in those countries where locals do not speak english but only a few random people can do it! You made the right choice not passing those cigarettes on, as it could have been so dangerous! Anyway even though your initial experience in Turkey is rather negative I hope that the following videos will be more positive and the most important thing is that you, despite this depressing trip, are not depressed anymore. You look so happy! Thanks a lot and take care🪻💕🍀
I am sorry to hear about your problems in Trabzon but I'm really not surprised. Long ago I was in a small U.S. intelligence base near Trabzon where we monitored the USSR naval fleet and air bases around the Black Sea. Trabzon back then was a backward, dirty city where the Americans didn't like the Turks and the Turks didn't like the Americans, Armenians, Georgians.. and I don't think they liked themselves very much either. It was a miserable time there. I was sure it had changed since then, but based on your experience maybe it hasn't changed so much. I do believe the Mediterranean coast resorts in Turkey are much better, and more popular with many Russians. Мне нравятся ваши ролики, спасибо.
Talk about adventures in living! Sheesh! Thank you for continuing to let us share in your experiences... the good and the bad. Think of it this way: if everything went smoothly, you wouldn't have exciting tales to tell your grand kids. 🙂
Sorry you had such a bad bus odyssey. Been there, done that, roasted like you did - but not riding into Turkiye. I feel your pain, all the same. It does stink being in a place where you cannot communicate with anyone other than the odd tourism or hospitality worker, but at least you are in a place that looks nice. All we can do in such cases is to make the best of it, write it off as adventure, as experience, or whatever, depending on how well you get along. Traveling has its difficult moments, and you have hit a couple of them on this trip. Try to have some fun, to find good moments, and, at the end, appreciate your adopted home just that little bit more after your difficult travel moments, Thank you for bringing us along. Show us around a bit, if you can. And keep being you.
At first I was like, what?! smuggle cigarettes INTO Turkey? Why would that be a thing? Turkey is one the largest producers of tobacco products in the world. Why would that work? Then I googled the price of cigarettes in Turkey, and yes, they are expensive. So it does make sense. I was curious about hospitality in Turkey, so I also googled that. So, here it is: "In Turkey, hospitality is everything. Welcoming someone is a cornerstone of Turkish culture, with Turks believing that visitors should be treated as guests sent by God. Traditionally hospitality has meant welcoming Turkish friends and family, but tourism has changed this." I guess reality is far different.
Towns like Trabzon and Rize around black sea coast are not popular destinations even by Turks themselves. They are very conservative an xenophobic towards strangers.
Turk here, first of all you are not exactly on the most entertained part of the country so dont trust anyone, if someone sells some clothing on the street dont buy it, its fake turkey has amazing foods but the area you are in doesnt have much to offer on that regard eigther, so maybe you can try menemen for breakfast with some simit and tea or you can also have some kuymak which is a lot like the swiss fondü like melted cheese. the black sea region has an amazing nature so enjoy some sıgthseeing. you can also see sümela manastırı. I would love to meet you one day if you ever visit a more enligtened part of my country :) welcome to turkey, have fun
Türkiye can be a bit overwhelming, but it wasn't a bad experience for me. :) Visited Isanbul, Safranbolu, Ankara, Göreme, Konya, Antalya, Patara, Marmaris, Bodrum. Selçuk(Efes), Pammukale, Izmir, Çanakkale, Tekirdag. Only half of Türkiye but it gave us an overall feeling of both rural and urban areas.
@@mertkaya4138 Thanks for sharing! I find information about a country's regional peculiarities to be much more interesting than the general national history (which is often curated to suit some national mythos).
I once brought a bottle of liquor over for a busworker from Turkey. This was ok for me, because I really needed that bus to cross the border (I was on foot and the border between Greece and Turkey was cars only) plus with a closed bottle of liquor it's pretty clear there isn't anything illegal hidden.
@@dsmj7389 Yeah, it's a natural cross-generational alliance between old folks and the young regarding "the world experience." The young ones are curious about the world. Well, old folks are, too, but have had some disheartening experiences before so good or bad experiences reported by the young ones nowadays are valuable.
Yep, I was living without air conditioning for an over a month. Management finally found a replacement as soon as the weather cooled off. I learned to live with 80 degree heat which is unusual. Normally, I freak out, but I just drank a lot of water, took a lot of showers, did a lot of laundry and slowed down.
Yeah, a few things to watch out for in Türkiye. I was in Istanbul many years ago, and got by with English ok. I had a dodgy taxi driver who tried to drop me off at his mate's hotel instead of the one I asked for. The reception guy wanted to hold onto my credit card until the end of my stay, but I said no, I need it to get food. Just have to be firm with them. Also nearly died of heat arriving in a small old plane like an old bus inside, to Odessa, and they turned the aircon off (middle of summer), and wanted to check passports to let people out, because it was in the middle of the tarmac, no proper terminal. Someone yelled about the heat, so they suddenly let us all out. I know what you're talking about.
I'm back from Türkiye. I was there for a month in octobre. I confirm the language barrier. In Istanbul and in really touristic places, yes, you can find people with english knowledge, but in remote areas, and even in Ankara, nope. There were a lot of russians, especially in Antalya. Surprising.
She's already got the rising-expectation cultural "infection" authoritarian rulers are afraid of. She's freeing her mental block by knowing how things can be (i.e. fully functioning well). I've never ever griped about WiFi password in my youth ! 😂 WiFi didn't even exist.
Sorry for your travel problems. You belong in America. All the problems you described don't happen here. I hope you can someday make it to the west, you would do so well in the United States.
Public transport in USA??? No problems??? Go for a walk at night? No problems???USA???😂☝️😜😈🤣 Watch: Travelling on a BRAND-NEW Russian Train: IVOLGA 4.0 Russel on Ivolga
Having traveled to and lived in Turkiye I can relate to this. Many Turkish people believe that if a breeze is blowing onto your face, you will get a cold, influenza, or pneumonia. I took a similar bus trip there many years ago, and when I opened a vent to get some circulation on a bus with no AC, the woman sitting across the aisle looked at me like I was trying to murder her baby. You should have a better experience visiting Istanbul or Antalya where there will be more people speaking English or Russian. But you need to fly or endure much longer bus rides to get there.
Hi Alena. Thank heavens for Starbucks. I am very sorry for your difficult experience in Türkiye 🇹🇷. It sounded like a nightmare. I’m glad you made it through safely when so much had gone wrong. What an unfriendly place for foreigners. I’ll expect the very worst should I ever go and I’ll try to bring a translator app that doesn’t need internet and an extra set of backup power, a fan🪭, and plenty of liras. And I will expect to fight taxi drivers and the worst treatment from bus drivers. It all seemed very exhausting and I am SO sorry for your terrible experience. You guys don’t deserve it!
How don't they deserve it? You don't go to a foreign country without knowing that you can communicate there, either by learning some language or by researching how prevalent is English.
@@julius43461 I see where you're coming from, but it's not always feasible for someone to learn a new language before arriving in a foreign country. They face numerous challenges, and it takes time and effort to adapt. I extend my support.
@@letterbox203 Sure, but I don't think she was forced to go there. Or did she had to leave Georgia to pull of visa trick? Idk but it wouldn't take much research to learn that Trabzon is not the most developed and touristy area.
Hello! I'm from Denmark, but I lived in Turkey for a year with a friend. The Turkish will be the first to tell you, there are many problems there, infrastructure isn't great, and there is a cultural identity crisis at the moment between europeanized/traditional minded muslim Turks. It's a very chaotic place where everybody tries to look out for themselves and their people first. Strangers are rarely treated well. If you have friends there, by all means go, they'll treat you like family. But don't go in blind or alone, is my advice.
Hi: I'm glad you went through this horrific experience of finding yourself "shutdown" in an environment that, contrary to expectations put forth by the official propaganda for tourism in Turkey, is far from being hospitable and tourist friendly - unless you speak the language of the locals. I said "glad" because now you should be able to understand us, the foreigners who get the same treatment in RF or Belarus as you've got in Turkey. I'm talking about those foreigners who bother to visit RF or Belarus and who happen not to know Russian. I visited Belarus 2 years ago and the 2 women who, inside Minsk National Airport, were manning the desk called INFORMATION, lashed out at me, retorting, in Russian language, that "No, we are not supposed to speak English, ok?" My question to them was this: Why don't you speak English, since your job duties involve interaction with customers who may not speak Russian? And this airport "incident" was only one among a few others alike. Otherwise my 10-day sojourn in Belarus was as tedious and depressing as your brief stay in Trabzon because of this open hostility on the part of the local population towards foreigners. I felt "trapped'/"shutdown", and being denied the personal dignity that I had enjoyed outside Belarus. You may get an ounce of respect from the locals in Belarus (and it is also most certainly the case in Russia) only if you babble something (something more, preferably) in Russian language. Or if you pick a 4- or a 5-star hotel for accommodation - a place where the only person you could have a small talk with must be the receptionist. Anyway, this openly vexing attitude towards foreigners dates back to Stalinist times, and I don't foresee any room for change in the near or distant future.
I’m so tempted to visit turkey because the inflation and exchange rate makes it very cheap for certain things. But this really isn’t selling it for me 😂 I guess Istanbul would be more tourist friendly
"I wanted to see the Aquarium, because of fish, and I'm a Fish..." Wait, wasn't it you that can't swim? 😘 About the Language barrier, I think you should go to the places where Westerners go, like Antaliya and beaches in the south. Not Black Sea places. But that is of course expensive... :)
Maybe it's an environmentally friendly and energy-bill-cutting location. Road tunnels are usually inside some large thermal mass such as a mountain 🏔️ or under water. The mass helps keep the temperature fluctuations small so the 🐠 🐟 🦐 🦀 in an aquarium need less artificial heating or cooling to survive comfortably.
You are generalising your experiance, but when I was ni Turkey in 2008 half of the staff spoke some English and I lerned some extra 50 turkik words in advance. Do you want to say that in Georgia (excluding American state of) every one is fluent in English and that is the norm?
I hope that this video is a week out of date and that you are already back in Georgia. I can't imagine why the bus driver singled you out to be treated badly?
She's Russian. Despite Russia's fiasco in Ukraine, the aura of its former glory still exists. Georgians and Turks probably still look up to the Russians.
She'd probably had gone over on her stash of duty free cigarettes and going by the experience I wont be too surprised if you started on the dreaded weed,the legal one at least,hope the rest of Turkey goes smoothly
Be very careful, my dear. Please, please be careful in Turkey. Don't do ANYTHING that can put you in the crosshairs of the police. And above all, go west and get out of conservative areas like Trabzon.
@@solconcordia4315, Starbucks standard coffee (Pike's Place) is not very good, kind of bitter, and usually overcooked unless the store is very busy. I think McDonald's has BETTER coffee -- it's actually very good for a fast food place.
It can happen to the "best" of us. I, for example, don't consider Florida as a foreign country but communicating with a Hispanic housemaid to delay for hours her cleaning the guest room (as the elderly person with us required a lot more time to get up to leave in the morning) we were staying in required me to speak some Spanish. I knew how to say in Spanish the numbers shown on a clock face 😀.
13:30 have you tried to use Google Translate? This might sound obvious but you could talk to the app in whatever language and it will respond in the language you choose. Turkish is an available language I just checked my phone....
@@stevegfromnc3482 "Offline mode only offers text translation between downloaded languages. However, features like voice translation, real-time conversation translation, and image text recognition won't work without an internet connection."
I watch your videos sometimes and just wonder how many young Russians there are who are wandering from country to country looking for somewhere they can rebuild their lives. I think the UK is insulated from this because there are very few Russians in the country. Most people don't know any Russians and hardly anyone speaks the language. I have only ever met three Russians in my life and in my small West Country town there is (by hearsay) just one Russian family - in the biggest and most expensive house at the other side of the town. Oligarchs keeping their heads down, maybe? I only know about this because I know a tradesman who has done some work at their house.
I AM IN SHOCK. Get the name of the bus company . And the hotel . An investigation can be done hear in the UK. as Turkey is a holiday destination for many in the UK.
10:42 Next time ask the hotel (front desk, concierge, etc.) to arrange a taxi for you. That is a common request (at least for me when I was in the hotel business), and they most like will have a reliable company to hook you up with.
@ninjainnameonly-6902 That's very unprofessional on their part. I spent 15 years in the hotel business, and that was a common request I would accommodate like that 🫰
NEVER EVER bring anything for other people across a border! Even for a friend! There are countless people in jail for smuggling hard drugs, because the "owner" has hidden drugs in whatever they want you to bring.
Yes and some countries have extremely nasty laws on dru
Absolutely, smugglers are always looking for a mule.
Damn yea! Drugs mule or at he very least their gonna resell them and make a profit off it tax free
watch the movie Midnight Express 😮
Sometimes it is not even the owner ir could be somebosy else.
Comment for the algorithm! Also keep up the amazing videos alena!
I had the same bus experience, about 36 years ago. A bus from northern Germany to Istanbul, with a change in Munich, about 24 hours all in all. Terrible, obnoxious, unfriendly bus drivers who always seemed to be in a huge rush, no matter what they were doing. They tore our bags out of our hands and threw them in the storage area as if the bus was two hours late leaving Munich although there were still over 30 minutes to departure time. This was in summer, and of course, just like with you, they refused to turn on the AC the whole way. A few people barely had room to sit because the drivers had loaded the rear seats up with about 100 packages of Pampers (which were apparently very expensive in Turkey). On the trip back, similarly impatient bus drivers forgot to release the brakes on a bagage trailer we were pulling behind the bus, resulting in a fire which partly burned some pasengers' luggage. Of course the bus drivers didn't care.
Alena, in the not-too-distant future you'll be able to look back at this trip as an adventure of personnel endurance in how to deal with adversity when everything is working against you, mostly likely this trip's memories will bring a smile to your face knowing you managed to prevail even when you felt exhausted and overwhelmed in a foreign land. Good going girls nothing can stop you.
Hi Alena. You are a very smart woman to refuse to help the lady with carrying stuff across the border. Who knows what troubles you may have incurred? I hope your trip back to Georgia is more comfortable.
I am so glad you didn't pass those cigarettes on. You didn't owe her anything and those cigarettes might not have been cigarettes but something illegal. I'm glad you made it to your destination okay. Did not sound like a fun trip.😊❤
Hello Alena! It's always a joy when you publish a new video. You bring interesting topics in spite of your suffering.
All the best to you!
Well, thank you for your honest appraisal of the Tourist Situation in that area.
Hello Alena!! Good to see you again. Commenting for the algorithm!! ☮️❤️🙏
Hello Alena! It is always a great pleasure to watch your videos as they are so well done! First of all I would like to say tha linguistic barriers are truly an important obstacle for tourists, especially in those countries where locals do not speak english but only a few random people can do it! You made the right choice not passing those cigarettes on, as it could have been so dangerous! Anyway even though your initial experience in Turkey is rather negative I hope that the following videos will be more positive and the most important thing is that you, despite this depressing trip, are not depressed anymore. You look so happy! Thanks a lot and take care🪻💕🍀
I am sorry to hear about your problems in Trabzon but I'm really not surprised. Long ago I was in a small U.S. intelligence base near Trabzon where we monitored the USSR naval fleet and air bases around the Black Sea. Trabzon back then was a backward, dirty city where the Americans didn't like the Turks and the Turks didn't like the Americans, Armenians, Georgians.. and I don't think they liked themselves very much either. It was a miserable time there. I was sure it had changed since then, but based on your experience maybe it hasn't changed so much. I do believe the Mediterranean coast resorts in Turkey are much better, and more popular with many Russians. Мне нравятся ваши ролики, спасибо.
Talk about adventures in living! Sheesh! Thank you for continuing to let us share in your experiences... the good and the bad. Think of it this way: if everything went smoothly, you wouldn't have exciting tales to tell your grand kids. 🙂
Sorry you had such a bad bus odyssey. Been there, done that, roasted like you did - but not riding into Turkiye. I feel your pain, all the same. It does stink being in a place where you cannot communicate with anyone other than the odd tourism or hospitality worker, but at least you are in a place that looks nice. All we can do in such cases is to make the best of it, write it off as adventure, as experience, or whatever, depending on how well you get along. Traveling has its difficult moments, and you have hit a couple of them on this trip. Try to have some fun, to find good moments, and, at the end, appreciate your adopted home just that little bit more after your difficult travel moments,
Thank you for bringing us along. Show us around a bit, if you can. And keep being you.
At first I was like, what?! smuggle cigarettes INTO Turkey? Why would that be a thing? Turkey is one the largest producers of tobacco products in the world. Why would that work? Then I googled the price of cigarettes in Turkey, and yes, they are expensive. So it does make sense.
I was curious about hospitality in Turkey, so I also googled that. So, here it is: "In Turkey, hospitality is everything. Welcoming someone is a cornerstone of Turkish culture, with Turks believing that visitors should be treated as guests sent by God. Traditionally hospitality has meant welcoming Turkish friends and family, but tourism has changed this."
I guess reality is far different.
Towns like Trabzon and Rize around black sea coast are not popular destinations even by Turks themselves. They are very conservative an xenophobic towards strangers.
Or it wasn't tobacco in the cigarettes.
It's refreshing to see you back to your old self. You were a little too up-beat and even close to smiling in your last video. пока-пока 🙃
Hi Alena, good to see you again! You look so good when you're smiling and i think you're getting less depressed! 👍😘
Turk here, first of all you are not exactly on the most entertained part of the country so dont trust anyone, if someone sells some clothing on the street dont buy it, its fake turkey has amazing foods but the area you are in doesnt have much to offer on that regard eigther, so maybe you can try menemen for breakfast with some simit and tea or you can also have some kuymak which is a lot like the swiss fondü like melted cheese. the black sea region has an amazing nature so enjoy some sıgthseeing. you can also see sümela manastırı. I would love to meet you one day if you ever visit a more enligtened part of my country :) welcome to turkey, have fun
Türkiye can be a bit overwhelming, but it wasn't a bad experience for me. :) Visited Isanbul, Safranbolu, Ankara, Göreme, Konya, Antalya, Patara, Marmaris, Bodrum. Selçuk(Efes), Pammukale, Izmir, Çanakkale, Tekirdag. Only half of Türkiye but it gave us an overall feeling of both rural and urban areas.
What is the most enlightened part of turkey
@@mertkaya4138 Thanks for sharing! I find information about a country's regional peculiarities to be much more interesting than the general national history (which is often curated to suit some national mythos).
I hope the next days of your journey in Turkey will be better.
Welcome to Turkey. I hope you enjoy your stay here. You will find Turkish people warm and friendly
It sounds like Georgia has it's own version of Greyhound.
I once brought a bottle of liquor over for a busworker from Turkey. This was ok for me, because I really needed that bus to cross the border (I was on foot and the border between Greece and Turkey was cars only) plus with a closed bottle of liquor it's pretty clear there isn't anything illegal hidden.
World traveling. If it were easy, everyone would do it. That's why we old folks watch videos.
Hey these young people with their travel logs are awesome. 😄 I hope things work out well for Alina, she is a very lovely soul !
@@dsmj7389
Yeah, it's a natural cross-generational alliance between old folks and the young regarding "the world experience."
The young ones are curious about the world. Well, old folks are, too, but have had some disheartening experiences before so good or bad experiences reported by the young ones nowadays are valuable.
Puppy understood you and sometimes that is all one needs. peace/JT
Ha, ha, good times! I feel you. I've had trips where everything seems to go wrong. Let us know how the return trip goes.
Thank you for this interesting review.
I love Alena!
Hello Alena, you are soo young you can take this and more, imagine someone with stomach problems and backache, love you 💟😘
It's official, our girl is a Pisces! Nice!
Good luck in Turkey!
wishing you having a good adventure in Turkey!
As a Russian evading sanctions I recommend you visiting Serbia! You will have a great experience over here, and there are many fellow countrymen here!
I missed you ..good to see you again.❤❤🥰🥰😘😘
Yep, I was living without air conditioning for an over a month. Management finally found a replacement as soon as the weather cooled off. I learned to live with 80 degree heat which is unusual. Normally, I freak out, but I just drank a lot of water, took a lot of showers, did a lot of laundry and slowed down.
So sorry , l hope things get better for you.
Lots of love. Like your videos.
Yeah, a few things to watch out for in Türkiye. I was in Istanbul many years ago, and got by with English ok. I had a dodgy taxi driver who tried to drop me off at his mate's hotel instead of the one I asked for. The reception guy wanted to hold onto my credit card until the end of my stay, but I said no, I need it to get food. Just have to be firm with them. Also nearly died of heat arriving in a small old plane like an old bus inside, to Odessa, and they turned the aircon off (middle of summer), and wanted to check passports to let people out, because it was in the middle of the tarmac, no proper terminal. Someone yelled about the heat, so they suddenly let us all out. I know what you're talking about.
Sounds like you had a ton of fun!
Better luck next time.
I'm back from Türkiye. I was there for a month in octobre. I confirm the language barrier. In Istanbul and in really touristic places, yes, you can find people with english knowledge, but in remote areas, and even in Ankara, nope. There were a lot of russians, especially in Antalya. Surprising.
A ruzzian, complaining about corruption in other countries. Made my day. 😂😂😂😂
She's already got the rising-expectation cultural "infection" authoritarian rulers are afraid of. She's freeing her mental block by knowing how things can be (i.e. fully functioning well).
I've never ever griped about WiFi password in my youth ! 😂 WiFi didn't even exist.
Sorry for your travel problems. You belong in America. All the problems you described don't happen here. I hope you can someday make it to the west, you would do so well in the United States.
not if Trump wins
Yet. They may not happen in the US yet. But they will. If Trump wins.
yes in America you just have to worry about being shot
Travel problems happen everywhere... just some are more frequent and worse than others.
Public transport in USA??? No problems???
Go for a walk at night?
No problems???USA???😂☝️😜😈🤣
Watch:
Travelling on a BRAND-NEW Russian Train: IVOLGA 4.0 Russel on Ivolga
Good choice not to help with smuggling in Turkey, especially if you've seen the 1978 movie, Midnight Express. 😬 50% inflation must be great, too. 🙄
After seeing Midnight Express 30 years ago,😀 I will never travel to Turkey.
@@josephtesoriero5165 Ya gotta look out for those prison guards, they like to give that prison love
So glad you’re doing depressed and cynical videos again!
Nice to see / hear you. I will watch later 🙂 - "Starbucks drink" 🤔
Not a great experience, but don't give up, you have learned a lot that will help on your next trip.
Having traveled to and lived in Turkiye I can relate to this. Many Turkish people believe that if a breeze is blowing onto your face, you will get a cold, influenza, or pneumonia. I took a similar bus trip there many years ago, and when I opened a vent to get some circulation on a bus with no AC, the woman sitting across the aisle looked at me like I was trying to murder her baby. You should have a better experience visiting Istanbul or Antalya where there will be more people speaking English or Russian. But you need to fly or endure much longer bus rides to get there.
1:42 sweet water cup bro lol
Hi Alena. Thank heavens for Starbucks. I am very sorry for your difficult experience in Türkiye 🇹🇷. It sounded like a nightmare. I’m glad you made it through safely when so much had gone wrong. What an unfriendly place for foreigners. I’ll expect the very worst should I ever go and I’ll try to bring a translator app that doesn’t need internet and an extra set of backup power, a fan🪭, and plenty of liras. And I will expect to fight taxi drivers and the worst treatment from bus drivers. It all seemed very exhausting and I am SO sorry for your terrible experience. You guys don’t deserve it!
How don't they deserve it? You don't go to a foreign country without knowing that you can communicate there, either by learning some language or by researching how prevalent is English.
@@julius43461 I see where you're coming from, but it's not always feasible for someone to learn a new language before arriving in a foreign country. They face numerous challenges, and it takes time and effort to adapt. I extend my support.
@@letterbox203 Sure, but I don't think she was forced to go there. Or did she had to leave Georgia to pull of visa trick? Idk but it wouldn't take much research to learn that Trabzon is not the most developed and touristy area.
@@julius43461No one deserves to be treated like Alena and the other bus passengers were. Do you enjoy blaming victims for being treated unkindly?
Hello! I'm from Denmark, but I lived in Turkey for a year with a friend. The Turkish will be the first to tell you, there are many problems there, infrastructure isn't great, and there is a cultural identity crisis at the moment between europeanized/traditional minded muslim Turks. It's a very chaotic place where everybody tries to look out for themselves and their people first. Strangers are rarely treated well. If you have friends there, by all means go, they'll treat you like family. But don't go in blind or alone, is my advice.
Hi: I'm glad you went through this horrific experience of finding yourself "shutdown" in an environment that, contrary to expectations put forth by the official propaganda for tourism in Turkey, is far from being hospitable and tourist friendly - unless you speak the language of the locals. I said "glad" because now you should be able to understand us, the foreigners who get the same treatment in RF or Belarus as you've got in Turkey. I'm talking about those foreigners who bother to visit RF or Belarus and who happen not to know Russian. I visited Belarus 2 years ago and the 2 women who, inside Minsk National Airport, were manning the desk called INFORMATION, lashed out at me, retorting, in Russian language, that "No, we are not supposed to speak English, ok?" My question to them was this: Why don't you speak English, since your job duties involve interaction with customers who may not speak Russian? And this airport "incident" was only one among a few others alike.
Otherwise my 10-day sojourn in Belarus was as tedious and depressing as your brief stay in Trabzon because of this open hostility on the part of the local population towards foreigners. I felt "trapped'/"shutdown", and being denied the personal dignity that I had enjoyed outside Belarus. You may get an ounce of respect from the locals in Belarus (and it is also most certainly the case in Russia) only if you babble something (something more, preferably) in Russian language. Or if you pick a 4- or a 5-star hotel for accommodation - a place where the only person you could have a small talk with must be the receptionist. Anyway, this openly vexing attitude towards foreigners dates back to Stalinist times, and I don't foresee any room for change in the near or distant future.
I just got back from Marmaris, was 10/10
The desk clerk should speak rudimentary English. Or have a computer website to look it up.
Your adventure will be a funny story one day!
Sorry you had such a bad trip. Happens to all of us if you travel enough. As we say in America, "Chalk it up to experience."
your the best
Sorry you had such a lousy trick, Alina. Hope things are a lot better for you now.
*Do you know that Turkish people are originally from Siberia Tatarstan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan, and Xinjiang-China?*
No, not before reading your statement. Isn't Xinjiang-China really East Turkestan ?
@@solconcordia4315 hahahaha....you are hilarious. Are you a girl or a guy?
I’m so tempted to visit turkey because the inflation and exchange rate makes it very cheap for certain things. But this really isn’t selling it for me 😂 I guess Istanbul would be more tourist friendly
Watch: Horror in der Türkei
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Zahnarzt rammt Implantat bis ins Hirn
(Normally I dislike this newspaper). It's on the Turkey
I was wondering if you could use s translator app. speak or type into it to show locals the translation.
"I wanted to see the Aquarium, because of fish, and I'm a Fish..." Wait, wasn't it you that can't swim? 😘
About the Language barrier, I think you should go to the places where Westerners go, like Antaliya and beaches in the south. Not Black Sea places. But that is of course expensive... :)
The aquarium is really odd - "The world’s first aquarium created inside a road tunnel has opened in Trabzon in northeastern Turkey."
Maybe it's an environmentally friendly and energy-bill-cutting location.
Road tunnels are usually inside some large thermal mass such as a mountain 🏔️ or under water. The mass helps keep the temperature fluctuations small so the 🐠 🐟 🦐 🦀 in an aquarium need less artificial heating or cooling to survive comfortably.
The turkey is a noble bird 🕊️🐦
Er-dog-an is a crappy bird
I unsubscribed to Natasha but will comment on here for the algorithm.
Trabzon has changed a l;ot since I was there in the U.S. Air Force in 1968. Travel up to the cliff top above the city!
It would suck to be in a country where you can not converse with the citizens. Wishing you safe travels. ❤
Well, there's a trip I can delete from my bucket list... 😆
Yes, this was the anti Turkish tourism video
A video like your channel name - pretty depressing. 😄
Who are you travelling with?
Google Map to use, will show which bus to take and where 👍👍
how did u improve your english? any tips?
You are generalising your experiance, but when I was ni Turkey in 2008 half of the staff spoke some English and I lerned some extra 50 turkik words in advance. Do you want to say that in Georgia (excluding American state of) every one is fluent in English and that is the norm?
I hope that this video is a week out of date and that you are already back in Georgia. I can't imagine why the bus driver singled you out to be treated badly?
She's Russian. Despite Russia's fiasco in Ukraine, the aura of its former glory still exists. Georgians and Turks probably still look up to the Russians.
She'd probably had gone over on her stash of duty free cigarettes and going by the experience I wont be too surprised if you started on the dreaded weed,the legal one at least,hope the rest of Turkey goes smoothly
_Midnight Express_ '70s movie. Not a great idea to carry stuff 😕 across Turkish borders.
dont go there
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Need to change the name to Slightly Amused Russian, or Mildly Irritated Russian!
Sending Love 🌹🖖
Be very careful, my dear. Please, please be careful in Turkey. Don't do ANYTHING that can put you in the crosshairs of the police. And above all, go west and get out of conservative areas like Trabzon.
I was going to complain to Howard Schultz about the lack of english but it sounds like Starbucks has that covered. 😅
I actually like Starbucks coffee.
AMEN
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Despite its probably being a near-sacrilege to say to the people of the U.S.A., I actually like some McDonald's foods.
@@solconcordia4315, Starbucks standard coffee (Pike's Place) is not very good, kind of bitter, and usually overcooked unless the store is very busy. I think McDonald's has BETTER coffee -- it's actually very good for a fast food place.
Yes! IT'S A TRAP!
I'm glad you're using the pronoun "we." I worry about you traveling alone.
Glad to see you again, Alina! 👍
Holy cow you don't just go to a foreign country without learning at least some local language.
It can happen to the "best" of us. I, for example, don't consider Florida as a foreign country but communicating with a Hispanic housemaid to delay for hours her cleaning the guest room (as the elderly person with us required a lot more time to get up to leave in the morning) we were staying in required me to speak some Spanish. I knew how to say in Spanish the numbers shown on a clock face 😀.
13:30 have you tried to use Google Translate? This might sound obvious but you could talk to the app in whatever language and it will respond in the language you choose. Turkish is an available language I just checked my phone....
You need a stable internet connection for that.
You can download languages while you have a connection to avoid the need for the internet later.
@@stevegfromnc3482 "Offline mode only offers text translation between downloaded languages. However, features like voice translation, real-time conversation translation, and image text recognition won't work without an internet connection."
is your title saying horrible language barrier
Turkish prison for smuggling. Where have I seen that before??😜😜
stay safe
I watch your videos sometimes and just wonder how many young Russians there are who are wandering from country to country looking for somewhere they can rebuild their lives. I think the UK is insulated from this because there are very few Russians in the country. Most people don't know any Russians and hardly anyone speaks the language. I have only ever met three Russians in my life and in my small West Country town there is (by hearsay) just one Russian family - in the biggest and most expensive house at the other side of the town. Oligarchs keeping their heads down, maybe? I only know about this because I know a tradesman who has done some work at their house.
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I"m be honest that a normal bus trip almost any where lol but glad you survived :3
Do you still working as a barista?
Smuggle smokes! Oh hell no! Enjoy your time there and be safe. Im American - i had that language barrier when i was in St Petersburg. Point!
I AM IN SHOCK. Get the name of the bus company . And the hotel . An investigation can be done hear in the UK. as Turkey is a holiday destination for many in the UK.
Buy a Bayraktar
early september ?? damn...
Put the bus behind you and enjoy your stay. You will find interesting and strange things to tell us about in your ironic way, as usual.
It was better in the Byzantine Empire.
Natasha with the french fries for breakfast. Typical.
10:42 Next time ask the hotel (front desk, concierge, etc.) to arrange a taxi for you. That is a common request (at least for me when I was in the hotel business), and they most like will have a reliable company to hook you up with.
she did and the hotel desk said they didn't know how.
@ninjainnameonly-6902 That's very unprofessional on their part. I spent 15 years in the hotel business, and that was a common request I would accommodate like that 🫰