Romania, you really surprised us! (Craiova, Romania)

[@romanvssvmromania]

Craiova, my home city. It may not be the most visited by tourists, but it is clean, has a great natural park and a nice old center. Also a lot of good places for specialty coffee, craft beer and cake shops.

[@PopescuSorin]

Craiova is one of the most communist looking Romanian city

[@teodorionescu7639]

I live in craiova , valea rosie neighborhood. It brings me joy seeing tourists come here. You guys still have a lot of the city left to explore, and you didn't go to the most popular places too.

[@hopintomyboots]

You live in amazing city :)

[@ProudRomanian21]

Si ai vazut oameni cu maceta in mana?

[@robertaamn]

Teo is right. You haven’t seen the best yet.😅

[@Rocsanna]

Your pronounciation was excellent, well done! I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip! P.S. Rain is like our kryptonite in Craiova 😅 nobody goes out if there is even a drop of it.

[@hopintomyboots]

Thank you! Always getting a bit anxious not to butcher the words totally 😅

[@radublaga7424]

Mulțumim pentru vizită! You are always welcome in our peaceful and ful of green country! 💙💛❤️

[@gigibenea3529]

Happy you enjoyed your stay in Romania , you are nice persons ❤😍

[@alinpetrus356]

I am happy you visited Craiova, my hometown, it's one of the least visited in Romania! We are in a more disadvantaged region. But our region has a lot of monasteries and Calimanesti resort, and especially Transalpina Ski Resort, the newest mountain resort.

[@inapetrisor2874]

Welcome in my country! Romania are many more beautiful places than the ones you`ve seen.We look forward to seeing you nest time!

[@danac2899]

Yeah, in small towns/villages everything is on the main road in Romania. I would say Orsova is basically a big village (I know people will hate for saying this), but it only has 8000 people. In bigger cities everything is spread out, so really depends on the size of the town.

[@abcMW1989]

Love your Finnish accent. Very nice!

[@radudumanovschi3387]

Baile Herculane was one of the most visited thermal resorts in Romania in the 80s. Unfortunately, it was abandoned by the Romanian state. I have many pleasant childhood memories from there.

[@3wL7]

A ajuns pe mana unor privati care nu fac nimic decat il lasa sa se distruga lent.

[@cristinabb9956]

Enjoy your trip! You saw a very small part of Romania, next timme go deeper!😊

[@hopintomyboots]

We’ll totally need to visit Romania again on a better time! 😊

[@alin-sebastianfaragau1543]

Băile Herculane...perfect 👍

[@SerketReal00]

I live in Craiova, in the Bariera Vâlcii neighboorhood close to train station. I can't belive that there are people who visit Craiova

[@alinpetrus356]

I am shocked you didn't visit Romania, so sad, Transylvania is so beautiful, from Oradea, Timisoara to Cluj, Sibiu and Brasov. Bucharest, Constanta with Mamaia, Iasi with Bucovina monasteries and Maramures for the relaunched village life. Even small cities, towns in Transylvania, Sighisoara, Alba Iulia, Deva and others are cute.

[@roxypredescu6599]

Happy you visited my home city Craiova. Actually 1day more would be great to visit the Art Museum,the second largest Park in Europe , and chill.

[@petruscristian8857]

I am happy you guys enjoyed to be in Romania 🇷🇴! Hopefully, in one day western Europe and other foreign countries will understand my childhood country isn't a jungle! The way they 👀 see.

[@VREMESS]

You are very nice. Visit Sibiu, Sighisoara, Cluj, Brasov, and many other places worth seeing in Romania.

[@clarakam3858]

We have manny manny beautiful views ! This is nothing . You missed so manny. Trasfăgărășan/ Transalpina . Transfăgărăsani was named the most beautiful road to drive in the world. Maramureș area ( Breb ) is a must , Sinaia , Brașov , Râșnov etc . Some castlles like Peleș, Pelișor , Bran etc . We have sea , mountains, healls, waterfalls, salt mines for your health to stay & take a cure etc. So manny beautiful places ❤

[@hopintomyboots]

We know 🥹 But it is impossible to experience and see everything in one just one or two days when driving through. But now we live near Romania so we can always come back!

[@clarakam3858]

@@hopintomyboots i know. I hope you will take more then one day next time in our country . We really have a beautiful & peacefull country. All the best to you !

[@OurBrokenDreams21]

Welcome to Romania friends! You were so close to my city Drobeta Turnu Severin between Craiova and Baile Herculane. The band HIM (a rock band) made me love Finland. Ville Valo, Mikko Paananen, Janne Puurtinen, Mika Karppinen and Mikko Lindström made me love Suomi and the finnish language. ❤ 🇫🇮

[@hopintomyboots]

Fun fact; Markus had a teacher in school who actually is a father of Jussi-Mikko "Juska" Salminen ;) Juska was keyboardist of HIM in Razorblade Romance.

[@OurBrokenDreams21]

@@hopintomyboots that's so cool. There are many lovely people. ❤

[@gabrielamonicamiu7062]

Non c'è gente ai ristoranti o per la strada perché magari sta piovendo e poi,voi siete in vacanza mentre i cittadini,essendo martedì,o sono al lavoro,o abbiano finito e hanno raggiunto le loro case ...io ho visitato Craiova e mi è piaciuta molto....provate ad andare il fine settimana...e hanno anche un parco stupendo

[@danielmaxter1928]

Romanians like to stay indoors when its raining outside. Also you are in Craiova but you didnt visit the Botanical Garden? 😮😮 That's a must see, its the largest natural park in all of Eastern Europe. Go see it.

[@hopintomyboots]

You can’t see everything you want in one day 😅 Next time then!

[@Spaghetti_MF]

I guess You are talking about Parcul Nicolae Romanescu, but yeah the botanical garden is not too shabby either.

[@RaduLacurezeanu]

Where are you from and what did you know about this country before visiting it?

[@hopintomyboots]

From Finland! Land of ice, snow and depression! We didnt knew much. Markus has visited Brasov and Bucharest in 2012 so he had some experience about the country but we didnt (or still do) knew much. The language was a first surprise and the second was the hypermarket in Timisoara since it was so huge and modern and even better than we have in most Finnish cities!

[@RaduLacurezeanu]

@@hopintomyboots the land of Santa as well. With the best education system in the world.. welcome to Romania the land of joy and frendly people.. it was indeed not much known about this country and assumed our language as a slavic one.. No No.. it is a romance language one of the oldest of them all ..similar to italian an spanish

[@hopintomyboots]

@@RaduLacurezeanu Finland, the best education system in the world? Please.. Not anymore :D Or did you mean Romania? That I can believe! Finnish education system is lost.

[@MaximDL1410]

👏❤️✊

[@PopescuSorin]

3:33 not bad! it's almost exactly how you pronounce "Baile Herculane" in Romanian

[@emilnegrila6384]

Nu au văzut Parcul Romanescu,Gradina botanica....

[@celestindimitriu3675]

you trully missed a lot of beautiful scenery in Transfararasan, Transalpina also cities like Sibiu, Cluj, Iasi, Timisoara, Brasov, Sinaia

[@hopintomyboots]

We’ve been in Timisoara in the last video and Markus has been in Brasov before. You cant see everything you want in 48 hours 😅

[@falxus9962]

Where is everybody?!At work ,mate!Romanians actually work hard for rebuilt the country !

[@Spaghetti_MF]

actually the city is empty, everybody is on vacation until septembre

[@tiagomota4734]

Your car is safe, always safe, i dont think its too much crime as people might think, it was a bit funny when you were concerned about your car..

[@hopintomyboots]

When your car is and has everything you have you are concerned. It doesnt matter where you are 😅

[@roxypredescu6599]

You pronounce very well the Romanian words

[@hopintomyboots]

Thanks! I hope we really do 😅

[@danac2899]

A hint...people go out later in Romania than Northen Europe...dinner is 19:30-20:00 and people stay really late out. If you go mid of day on a weekday nobody is at the restaurant/bar because people are at work, plus if you want to see romanians run it just needs to rain a bit 😂. Also people use "it's raining today" as an excuse to cancel on plans, which countries with rainy climates will think WTF 😅

[@bogdannila1478]

how much did this apartment cost?

[@hopintomyboots]

Total price was 53 dollars for one night.

[@Zdamaneta]

Craiova? First time I see tourists coming here... 😂

[@hopintomyboots]

Really? Wonder why since it seems to be an amazing city! 🥹

[@nelu7591]

Craiova is a former industrial City. Tourism în Craiova?! Sure, îs my city, its nice, despite that many romanians have a wrong impression about the city. But I am aware that there are more beautiful cities în România...

[@Spaghetti_MF]

Maybe you should watch more youtube. I live in the city center and every weekend there are allot of tourists. Especially in the winter when the city is packed because city is very nicely decorated.

[@Zdamaneta]

@@hopintomyboots it's not a touristic city, you are probably the first foreign vlogger I've seen who came to Romania to visit Craiova.

[@dumitrumarusi426]

There are many beautiful places to see in Craiova, especially the central area, and the Nicolae Romanescu Park.

[@daciaromana2396]

I still don't understand how Romania surprised you. Like, what about Romania was so surprising?

[@gigibenea3529]

Ți-s to YT just find you, for the beginning we thought you are Hungarian s , your accent in English 😅

[@RoverWaters]

pacanele & manele

[@johnmarinescu96]

Asta a fost cel mai tare raspuns: pacanele si manele. Am ramas fara aer de atata ras!!

[@NucaMarius]

ummm...stop worrying about your spelling/wording...you're pretty good with romanian names!

[@ameliaa7087]

it is not a turistic town, and most people are on holiday this time of the year. Most people finish work at 7 pm

[@mariannemoise979]

Dar cu tupeu grosolan de necioplita, affirme ca ""Craiova nu este oras turistic":"?! Rusine sa'ti fie ! Eu zm plecat de la Oradea pentru sarbatorile de Pasti la Craiova oras care ma cucerit !! Rusine specimen de retardata !!! Tara Crisurilor. BH

[@abcMW1989]

Leu is singular, and Lei is plural.

[@mihai.e.g.]

Craiova isn’t really one of the nicest/beautiful cities in Romania…