WALKING in ŁÓDŹ at NIGHT in POLAND.

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[@TravelAddictGuy]

Hi to everyone, hope you are enjoying my latest video. Special thanks to Ana Ramirez for a Gift to the Channel. Much appreciated Ana.🙏🏻

[@mariuszpuszkiewicz7864]

Cytując klasyka,, Łódź, kurna Łódź,, 😂 Studiowałem w tym cudownym mieście. Dziś to miasto zmienia się szybko na lepsze, ale wciąż jest dla mnie miastem kontrastów. Pozdrawiam ekipę z ulicy Zamenhofa ❤

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Your saying is quite funny. Lodz is not a perfect city, but it seems to be getting better. It does have some interesting buildings, like the church I saw. Cheers to Zamenhofa street! 🍻😁

[@revolutionibusorbiumcoeles9041]

@@TravelAddictGuy Lodz is not perfect and never will be. I salute all these people who resisted the demolition instinct and preserved its past.

[@vandyke4945]

This evening walks are pretty cool, it gives you a different perspective.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Good to know that the evening walks are interesting. The GoPro has limitations with low light though. The darker it gets, the less sharp the picture is.

[@Sir_Sway]

it looks very clean and modern there..nice

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Poland is very nice, it's also quite safe. 👍🇵🇱😎

[@agnieszkazuk]

It seems you like Poland :-) Liked and subscribed.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

I like it a lot. Dziekuje bardo. 🇵🇱🙏😎

[@erikabright]

Nice Vlog. It looks great and clean

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Thanks, appreciate the kind words.🙏🏻😎

[@tom12878]

Thankyou my friend

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Hi from Poland. 👍

[@FBASD01]

Looks like a modern city. Nice and clean.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

They have great transport, the new train station is nice. Not bad at all.

[@yakeosicki8965]

What you see near the Łódź Fabryczna Railway Station is the emerging new city center. Currently, railway tunnels and underground streets are being built. In a few years, such complexes of buildings, office and residential, will appear. You see what's going on underground. You see the music video: Męskie Granie Orkiestra 2021 (Daria Zawiałow, Dawid Podsiadło, Vito Bambino) - I Ciebie też, bardzo

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Cool man, I'm going to check out that music video. Go Lodz! . 🥳🎸

[@craigparkinson2844]

As an American living in Lodz for 7 years, I can't believe that you would come to Lodz and not go to Piotrkowska Street. You were two blocks away! Just wandering around. It is one of the great streets in the world and you didn't show it. I was disappointed. In any city in the world including the US one can find creepy areas. Lodz is a pretty safe for a city of 700,000. You missed out.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

I actually did go to Piotrowska street and Manufaktura in the next video from Lodz.

[@Travel_Fanatic24]

Plenty of good hostels in Warsaw, I stayed at Tatamka hostel which was good. New world st hostel, Safestay old town, Oki doki old town are supposed to be good too.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Thanks for sharing. I've heard that many hostels closed during the pandemic.

[@Travel_Fanatic24]

Wow nearly 30 mins walk away from Piotrkowska Street, that's quite far away, location not the best then.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

From Fabrycna going straight near the park. It was only about a 10 minute walk. I went the long way to see the city and then turned back around.

[@Travel_Fanatic24]

Does the hostel have lockers ? Did you stay in the 4 bed room ?

[@TravelAddictGuy]

No, I stayed in the larger room. They have lockers.

[@mr_high8129]

Welcome Bro. ✌️😎

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Thanks Mr. High. 🇵🇱👍🇺🇲😎

[@mr_high8129]

🇺🇲🇵🇱🇺🇲🇵🇱😎

[@FunlifeMinecraft]

Hey I've been in Lodz in April, and I slept right in the same hostel you've been to It's really funny to see how the world is actually so small

[@TravelAddictGuy]

It is a small world. Hope you enjoyed Lodz. 👍🏻😆😎

[@FunlifeMinecraft]

@@TravelAddictGuy first day in the hostel, i tried not to cry XD

[@TravelAddictGuy]

@@FunlifeMinecraft I won't be going back to this place. Plus I had some bites on my lower back after staying here.

[@FunlifeMinecraft]

@@TravelAddictGuy oh you had problems with bugs? I didn't have that problem but all the hostel was so depressive.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

@@FunlifeMinecraft The hostel is not very good. I had a few bumps on my lower back after staying there. Seems like something bit me.

[@marc9453]

At first sight a little bit spooky place but inside really nice. What does an overnight stay cost?

[@TravelAddictGuy]

I paid around $32 for two nights. But I would not go back.

[@Travel_Fanatic24]

@@TravelAddictGuy Wasn't it a very good hostel then ?

[@TravelAddictGuy]

@rappy1969 No, not really. I've stayed in much better places. Plus, the location was bad.

[@Travel_Fanatic24]

@@TravelAddictGuy Lodz doesn't really have many good hostels. Bad as in run down or bad as is far from the centre ?

[@puchatek5584]

Crossing streets on red light is prohibited in Poland and ticket from Police is 50zł (5 bears) :) not joking. When you decide to cross look also for Police car! If you get caught they will probably let you go because you tourist, but better not to try. Travel smart and cheap:)

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Wow! People cross on red in Spain and most other European countries all the time. Thanks for the warning though. I would not mind drinking some beer with a Polish policeman. 😂🚓🍻😎

[@Travel_Fanatic24]

@@TravelAddictGuy Yes be careful of that in Warsaw as they have police watching on the streets.

[@darek4488]

@@Travel_Fanatic24 There is at least 5 times more police presence in Warsaw than any other city in Poland. In Łódź you just look around for a police car and just cross on red when the street is clear. In Warsaw it is a little bit different, so be extra careful. Also since 2022 the update ticket rate for crossing on red is 200zł.

[@katarzyna4667]

Actually, not so many Poles are nationalistic. Patriotic is probably a better word. You saw so many Polish flags, because of the national holidays - 2nd May is the Flag Day and 3rd May is the 3rd of May Constitution Day (to honour the constitution, which was declared at the end of XVIII century.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

As I was editing the video I felt like I should have said Patriotic too. That's what I meant really. Sometimes you choose the wrong word when talking off the cuff. I did say later in the video that Polish people love their country. Thanks Katarzyna. 🙏🏻😎

[@thephilweknow3289]

Great video Kerry, things always look dodgy at night no Matter where you are 😁

[@TravelAddictGuy]

I guess you're right about that. 😂😂😂

[@DimaSid]

I lived there 🥲

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Nice, did you like it?

[@DimaSid]

@@TravelAddictGuy I liked it because I'm from Ukraine😁. But the Poles consider this city depressive.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

@@DimaSid That's what they say. But it's changing fast.

[@TAMARARUFF1]

You have to know that Lodz was forgotten for many years ,Polish government spend money on Warszawa .krakow ,and many more .LOdz have very interesting history. Every one talks very negative about Lodz ,But this city have so many wonderful places to discover and no city in Poland compare to Lodz . I love this city

[@TravelAddictGuy]

I can only give my opinion of what I saw here. Can you tell me some of the places I should visit on my next trip to Lodz?

[@jadwigabanat8383]

lodz by night

[@Otto-Webb]

1)3:33 its a polish-ukrainian autocefalic orthodox chuch, poles are catholic but its from the times we had a lot of Russians here. Now i think Ukrainians go there to pray. There is 1 more 2 streets away. 2) around 16teenth minute you hear Ukrainian, not polish language.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

It makes sense as there are many Ukrainians in Poland now.

[@robkal7076]

Sir, you have visted legendary Kamienna Street 😅😅😅 (presently Włókiennicza Street). Same years ago most unfamest street in Lodz. Yes, it had worse reputation than Bałuty neighborhood. Street of moonshinig and fence dens. Streed was made famest in 1950-60s by artistic bohemians like Agnieszka Osiecka (song - Lovers from Kaminna Street) or Roman Polański rampanding during their studing years. Oryginaly build for reach "lodzenmenshen" in XIX, soon turned into street of cheap brothels. Acording to urban legend in 1905 during revolutionary fights prostiuts were poring urinals and boiled water on cossacss storning workers baricade on this street. As a fact you were waking area were workers of PPS and Bund for the first time in Russian Empire opened fire a on storming cavalery. Presently Włókiennicza Street is passing revitalisation with hope of thurning in hipster / artstic area. So a smell of a joint actually is a sign of change to better not to worse. In 1990s by the nigh you would walk out of the street without wallet. Or complitly drunk, since surprised locals could likly treat a strange foriner as a guest rather than a prey. Yes, presently Poland is rather save even by night. And we truly want to keep it this way. Literats would know what I am reffering at.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

So much wild history on this street. While here I was, an American, completely oblivious to ot all. Absolutely wild, thanks for sharing. 🇵🇱😂👏

[@sawomirmarnotrawny1694]

fun fact.... Lódz means boat ;)

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Good to know.

[@sawomirmarnotrawny1694]

@@TravelAddictGuy so much in the sense of dark Polish sense of humor

[@sawomirmarnotrawny1694]

my friend, look at the map and tell me what genius came up with the idea to call the city without more access to water Lódź

[@TravelAddictGuy]

😂😂😂🛥🛥🇵🇱👍

[@sawomirmarnotrawny1694]

@@TravelAddictGuy city kinda looks like a ship or boat if u look from south but then agein it is kinda fare fetch.

[@sawomirmarnotrawny1694]

@@TravelAddictGuy i was born polish and raised for me when i hear "łódz" it means ship or łódka. but then again iam from north so it is funny for me.... but can be kinda not nice to locals. and u kinda dont wanna get 'highlanders' on ther angry side. witch again is funny... we calll them 'highlanders' couse for us 'northen hils an moutains there. the north is a country of lakes and the sea

[@Travel_Fanatic24]

You must have got back to the hostel late then if people were sleeping.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Not too late, maybe 11 p.m.

[@Travel_Fanatic24]

@@TravelAddictGuy Not too bad then, least you had the decency not to put the light on which is rare in hostels these days.

[@ceglastymonster7799]

Przeczytałem "walki na nóż" zamiast. "walking in łódź" xd😅

[@TravelAddictGuy]

😂😂😂😂🛥🇵🇱

[@nakagossert4944]

Szkoda,że nie mówisz,ktorymi ulicami sie przemieszczasz😮

[@TravelAddictGuy]

I actually try to say the streets when I see the street signs.

[@ilonaoglecka9174]

Jak będziesz ponownie w Łodzi koniecznie zawitaj do restauracji ,, Len i bawełna" . Pyszne jedzenie. Sprawdź w internecie, czy cenowo dasz radę.❤

[@TravelAddictGuy]

I'm far from rich, so it sounds too expensive for me. I'm sure the food is great though.

[@user-FM1]

We enjoy your vlogs . Honestly I feel the city is quite dead not much to see like Warsaw or Krakow. Even you felt a bit scared since no one is walking after sunset .

[@TravelAddictGuy]

It was a bit creepy walking on some of these streets at night. We'll see Warsaw very soon. Thanks FM.🇵🇱😎🇺🇲👍

[@antekp2965]

Łódź during wild capitalism of late 19. century kzbin.info/www/bejne/q3XEkJhuo9qGY6M

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Are those real videos? Or was that a movie. These look similar to the early scenes of the USA workers in factories too. They even had children working back then, in the 1800's until the the early 1900's. These people look sad and overworked in the video you shared.

[@antekp2965]

​@@TravelAddictGuy it hardly resembles the 'Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory' by Lumiere brothers. These are excerpts from the 1974 film 'The Promised Land', based on the novel by the Nobel Prize winner in literature, Władysław Reymont

[@888ssss]

thats enough freezing in poland. time to go south.......to romania !!

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Hahahha

[@kevhynaleks2631]

I heard that in the communist times Lodz was the worsest city in Poland...

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Ohh! That's really scary to hear.

[@darek4488]

In communism Łódź wasn't as bad as it has become right after the fall of communism. During communism Łódź was a textile and chemical powerhouse. Then in 1990 it all fell apart. The city failed to bring in any investors and barely anybody in Poland had money anyway, because the country kept its hyperinflated currency until 1995. When your life savings buy you a pair of shoes or a jacket you know the currency is completely dead.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

@darek4488 Sounds like a real shame what happened. We suffered similar fates in our manufacturing cities back in the USA. After the collapse of the auto industry, Detroit has never fully recovered.

[@darek4488]

@@TravelAddictGuy Łódź resembles Detroit in a way. It all revolved around a single industry. When it fell the city went down with it. This story repeats countless times across the globe. It is like a mining town that had its mine shut down. This can also happen to countries that export mainly one thing.

[@TravelAddictGuy]

@@darek4488 Exactly right.

[@rafalkaminski6389]

Where are the blm gangs? I dont see them!

[@TravelAddictGuy]

Smash and grabs are not allowed in Poland.