Waterless fountains and local Romanian markets - Bucharest Solo Travel 🇷🇴 2022

[@jamiemooreexplores]

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[@ionelghiorghita688]

Easy to know why no water. It is seasonally. Usually in November it's possible to get frozen and destroy the pool concrete so they clear it for the winter time.

[@ionelghiorghita688]

And the food name is "sarmale"...

[@jamiemooreexplores]

It is easy to think that as I've just uploaded now but these videos were actually recorded back in June earlier this year. I also appreciate the correction on 'Sarmale' - since making these videos I have to say captions are my least favourite part of the editing process 😂

[@ionelghiorghita688]

@@jamiemooreexplores OK than I have another explanation, I'm from Bucharest but actually I'm in London but still in contact with my city issues so I heard about the new maior living in another world than the real one and in this term you are lucky that you didn't meet any steroids rat because he also refused to spend money for the periodically rat and mosquitoes "treatments".

[@morenewsbricks6836]

The reason there was no water was Europe experienced the largest drought in recent times. Eastern Europe and Romania was particularly hit hard, so measures were put in place to stop water wasting.

[@mirceam7577]

Big up for the awareness part about Iran dude. And a big up for Parisa for showing you the real deal in Obor Market

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Its the least I can do bro, crazy what's going on out there. Appreciate you taking the time to comment, hope you liked the video 🙌🏻

[@youtubeaccount24569]

i love your videos !

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Hey, Thanks so much I'm glad you like what I'm doing. 😁 That's exactly what I plan to do with this channel so it's nice that you've picked up on it. I plan to travel around everywhere meeting as many people as possible and just showing the genuine cultures of places and people. I also hope to just influence people to do the same sort of thing and feel confident to solo travel etc. Romania was beautiful and I can't wait to come back, once again I'm glad you enjoyed it. Appreciate your comment anyway, it's really nice to hear people's opinions. I've been all over the Balkans since these videos so be sure to subscribe if you haven't already to follow the rest of my journeys 😁

[@GullyPabs]

Loved it mate 😁😁😁

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Nice one bro, looking forward to your new drop ⏳

[@NoWeedMoreSpeed]

I hope you make it big my man! youtube recemmended your videos, and I've never seen any of the big youtubers who come to Romania do such a good an true to reality impression of my home country! Keep it up!

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Hey bro, and thank you so much I'm gonna keep the content coming so glad to have you on board 🙌🏻. Loved my time in Romania and hope to get back out there sometime soon. Thanks again

[@catalinvlaescu3889]

Your curious,funy and sociabil!😃☺️👏

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Hey Catalin, Thank you, thats actually a really nice comment to receive so I'm glad you like what I'm doing 😌 Thank you for your comment anyway it's really nice to hear people's opinions. I've been all over the Balkans since these videos & have done much more exploring so be sure to subscribe and follow my journey if you've enjoyed 😁

[@yugsingh9601]

Bro your content is very raw.You are doing a good informative work.

[@dyorlando]

La mici obor pe mijloc trebuia sa duca....asta e....a pierdut cei mai buni mici din bucuresti...data viitoare..probabil nu a stiut sau a fost coada :P

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Hei Orly, La care ar trebui să merg în continuare dacă acesta este doar cel mic? ma bucur ca ti-a placut videoclipul, dar da orice recomandari sunt apreciate 😁

[@gmatei]

​@@jamiemooreexplores He tried to say that you was at the wrong restaurant/terace. There is another place in Piata Obor where you can eat better. Some say that there you can find the best mici in the whole country but also sometimes you can stay at very long lines to get them. At any time of any day there are at least 50 people in line waitting. Anyway..nice video.

[@kasunyuresha9301]

Hi brother . Nice video ..❤️❤️

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Thankyou bro, I'm glad you enjoyed the vid. Appreciate your comment anyway, it's really nice to hear people's opinions. I've been all over the Balkans since these videos so be sure to subscribe if you haven't already to follow the rest of my journeys 😁

[@VichenteH]

Bucovina should be your next visit bro... mountains in Romania also amazing

[@jamiemooreexplores]

I'll add it to the list bro, Thankyou

[@zontarr22-zon]

Mici is a fast food but sarmale you better try in a restaurant as sure they have to be hot( including polenta).

[@jamiemooreexplores]

I have to say the Mici was my favorite. Thanks for taking the time to comment. Be sure to drop me a sub 🙏🏻

[@DeepMind_UK]

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Thankyou bro 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@VichenteH]

Visit 'Tineretului, Cișmigiu, Romana, Tinan. All these are nice parks man, first park has like fayre also.

[@jamiemooreexplores]

I'll have to have a look at some of these places online. I should be back in Romania soon so I know there is so much more of the country to see 💯

[@babaknazarpour583]

iran💓💎

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Much love to Iran! 💓💎 Thanks for tuning in! If you're enjoying the content, make sure to subscribe for more! 🙌🌍

[@specialkhouse11]

Sarmale is better than Mici , but its supposed to be heated and with some greek yoghurt next to it ,that spot is known for mici ,not sarmale. Also, sarmale is rice and meat in a sauerkraut roll and baked in the oven .

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Appreciate your recommendation. Next time I'm there il give it a go for sure.

[@conorgrist4928]

Alexandra was nice 👌 😍

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Haha, they where both lovely girls 😇

[@vladvanessa]

hey, hope you are enjoying bucharest. november is no fun anyway, everything looks grey when there are no green trees. you were unlucky to get the sarmale cold, they should be hot. can you pls put a disclaimer or a warning for seizure triggers, because the lights from piata obor were flickering really bad in the video.

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Hey Vanessa, I had a lovely time thankyou. This was actually all the way back in June but it just took me a while to edit and upload 😅. I'll be sure to give the Sarmale a try another time then and yes apologies I hadn't even thought of that but il get it sorted. Thanks for the comment

[@Nemesis_HEX]

GREAT RELATIONSHIP !

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Thanks 🙌🏻

[@Tudor356]

💯👌👍nice

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Hey Tudor, Thanks I’m glad you enjoyed 🙌🏼

[@haberini]

You are right! Sarmale must be warm/hot ! And put "smântână" on top. In restaurant îs better

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Haha, I knew something was up. Nobody like a cold dinner, when I’m back in Romania il give the “smantana” a go for sure 💯

[@Mammzzii]

😍😍😍

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Thankyou bro, hope your well 🙌🏼

[@stamy74]

I have been living 14 years in Bucharest now. Bucharest is only nice if you live in a central area and walk. If you have to drive is a nightmare. Hope this will get sorted out a bit when the ring road gets ready. Another really bad thing about Bucharest, is that it's really far away from mountains and the sea, what I call the real nature, not the artificial one in the parks. And the lack of road infrastructure makes it challenging to go somewhere for a weekend, might take you hours for 150km distance. There are way better cities than Bucharest in Romania, Brasov, Cluj, Timisoara, Sibiu, even Constanta which at least has seaside. In general the more north west you go (Transylvania region), the better it is.

[@jamiemooreexplores]

I thought it was a lovely city, I agree on also going outside of Bucharest as well though. Be sure to sub the channel and check out the other videos, in the next episode I make my way down to Vama Veche 👀

[@alexevo8016]

I didn't see anything in this clip to prove to me that Bucharest is ok or not, regardless of the feedback. First of all, that the positioning of the camera is faulty. The 2nd aspect, @stamy74, if you stayed in Bucharest for 14 years, you stayed for nothing, because you gave bad advice and unrealistic feedback. Precisely, as a local, it seems to me that the City Center has deteriorated and on the opposite pole, other areas, located on the outskirts or residential areas have developed. Mountain and sea far away? I go to Sinaia quite often in a year and it takes 1 hour and 19 minutes by train, and it takes 2 hours to Constanța, does that seem like a lot to you? You probably have loft problems and are giving unrealistic feedback. I've traveled enough to say goodbye to the "West", feeling insecure.

[@stamy74]

@@alexevo8016 I need one hour just to go out of Bucharest cause there's no ring road yet. Have you tried to go weekend to Sinaia with a car? Have you tried to drive to Constanta during summer? The road infrastructure in Bucharest is still a joke, even compared to other Romanian cities like e.g. Brasov. The only reasons I still live in Bucharest is professional and family.

[@cosminzaharia2669]

@@stamy74 Traffic in Bucharest is incredibly bad but the positioning is excellent to either mountain or sea side.Just think about it, it's ¬150km to Brasov and ¬200km to Constanta that puts Bucharest in the center, both are seasonal/touristic zones ofc they get busy during their period of activity in the winter/summer. We could use more highways and better roads in Romania though...

[@stamy74]

@@cosminzaharia2669 I don't care about kilometric distance but how much time you spend to reach the mountain and the sea. Funny thing is that to Constanta there is 200km motorway and still in the summer it gets blocked since early morning in the weekends. For Sinaia, a place only 120km away, you need more than 2 hours to reach it during weekends, because of the poor road infrastructure.

[@abdeljalil.bucharest3271]

Bucharest its lovely city . Currently i live in bucharest and i love it . As a moroccan i invite you to visit my country 🇲🇦 morocco . You will love it 👍

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Was beautiful out there, and Morocco is a country I've been looking at lately to be fair. The Berber villages. If you have any other parts of the country you would recommend send them over and i'll try and check them out? And thank you for your kind invite Sir 🙌🏻

[@Bogdangati4]

Well... let me tell you something, I am 21 years old and I was born in this town, so , when I was younger in Herastrau Park the fountains used to work, there was water in them, as another subscriber said, we have a new Maior for Sector 1 and she chose to not pay for protecting citizen against rats, and maybe that's why there is no water in the fountains in Herastrau Park. Now for the food... Mici = Minced meat on grill , usually romanians eat Mici with mustar and paine ( mustar = mustard ; paine = bread ), Salmola it's wrong, the correct name is "Sarmale" and you need to eat them warm (Sarmale = minced meat with rice which is wrapped in a piece of pickled cabbage) , salada verta it's again wrong, the correct name is "salata verde" ( "salata verde" = green salad ), but on your plate you had salata varza ( salata varza = cabbage salad ) not green salad so you identified it correct, and the rice in romanian is "orez", and the yellow stuff that you named corn , it's not actually corn, but it's corn based, you call it polenta ( mamaliga = polenta ). I hope this was useful for you.

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Hey, I'm sorry to hear that. Hopefully, one day when I come back I will get to see the fountains working again in all of their glory. And thanks I appreciate the corrections. I think I need to try the Sarmale again when it's warm personally, but yes thankyou anyway I found it very helpful 😄

[@Crismand]

You've been unlucky, mate. "Sarmale" (and not salmola) are vey good and tasty but in a proper restaurant or cooked at home, the food where you ate that it s more like a fast food one without too much quality.

[@jamiemooreexplores]

I'll be sure to give it another go mate, as I say it wasn't bad just a bit cold for my liking at the time. Thanks for commenting anyway and be sure to sub if you haven't already 🙏🏻

[@JayJordz94]

It's so heartbreaking for someone like myself that was born and grew up till the age of 11 in Romania, to see a place like Herastrau go to literal hell :( I'm so sad. That place has been the staple of bucharest for many years, I remember myself and my family along with friends just gathering up for days of summer & spend them going for walks in the park, eating mici and going for boat rides across the lake. Riding roller skates and picking flowers, admiring the fountains ... now it's all sad and depressing :( (ps. I am using my partner's youtube account so don't worry about the name haha)

[@GreatReset-ex1gg]

It's fall/winter, I wouldn't expect it to have flowing water and flowers right now. When did you leave? I was also 11 when I left, haven't seen this park in 20 years.

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Hey, I wouldn't say it's gone to literal hell I still had a lovely time there 😊 Cheers anyway, I really appreciate the comment and make sure to hit that subscribe button! Your support means a lot to me and I'm glad you enjoyed the content. I'll catch you in the next one. 🙌🏻

[@jamiemooreexplores]

This was actually recorded in June 2020 just uploaded a little late 🙂

[@lucianboidache8606]

Sarmale is verry good but I dont andustend way give you cold sarmale because must to be worm

[@jamiemooreexplores]

I know right, hopefully next time il get that warm stuff 🤞🏻

[@markjoachen]

This makes me laugh your copying my holiday at the end of video mici same place lol...my 2019 summer holiday there...when I was in constanta to that year there was a pool of water I the summer but it was drained in the April of that year as I went twice I don't if that parc is the same but it might be

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Haha, well I'm glad we got to experience the same spot. Did you enjoy the food there? Also yes somebody else mentioned the water in the park maybe being seasonal but I never did truly find out. One day il be back there and come back to it for sure 😀

[@NoWeedMoreSpeed]

Mamaliga is polenta in english, but few not romanian people ever even heard of polenta

[@jamiemooreexplores]

I cant say the Mamaliga was my favourite but the Mici was spot on 👍🏻

[@NoWeedMoreSpeed]

@@jamiemooreexplores I agree mici is better ,but you didn't get proper mamaliga. Should be like steaming hot with heavy cream and cheese on top

[@specialkhouse11]

@@jamiemooreexplores try polenta with some greek yoghurt , and branza de burduf , then you'll like it

[@Nemesis_HEX]

HE SAY -> LA REVEDERE, O ZI FRUMOASA - > GOODBAY, a beautiful day . IS LEARN VERY FAST THE ROMANIA LANGUAGE THAT GIRL GOOD JOB GIRL , SARMALE , MICI , MAMALIGA , SALATA ,VARZA , BERE , APA

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Ye, she speaks very well doesn't she, was a lifesaver for me and my language skills aren't quite there yet lol 😞 Thanks for your translation. Appreciate your comment anyway, it's really nice to hear people's opinions. I've been all over the Balkans since these videos so be sure to subscribe if you haven't already to follow the rest of my journeys 😁

[@intheair1363]

Parisa dear, if you are looking for a quiet and civilized country without stress, with a strong education system, you can choose Sweden, Norway, Denmark Switzerland. And I assure you that you´ll get rid of the niqab there too but after all, everyone chooses what suits them...

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Thank you for your concern, I'm sure Parisa would appreciate that very much. Its great to see people so welcoming to other nationalities 🌎

[@paris.a9737]

Thank you for your advice 🤗❤️

[@zontarr22-zon]

What you try to say? that Romania is not quiet and civilised and a good education system? For her :Sweden, Norway and even Denmark are not so quiet and stress free there, just check the population ratio / muslims male immigrants. For women in those 3 countries the stress levels definitely increased, since crimes increased, since the islamists arrive.

[@costinhalaicu2746]

The fountains not working has also been in the press. The Bucharest city mayor declined responsibility and said that things are normal... no idea if not working is normal in his opinion, but there it is. They're supposed to work, but the city hall cut public funding to the parks, so that seems to be the reason why they are dry. I'd also want to express solidarity with the women of Iran. The repression there deserves awareness indeed. I think your friend Parisa is better off here.

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Thank you for clearing that up for me, it's a shame because aside from that it was a beautiful park. Hopefully one day the fountains can be turned on again and the park brought back to its former greatness. I appreciate that and I'm certain she will do to, I'm still in contact with Parisa and i can say she is still very much happy in Romania 😁

[@sstoi]

poor guy eaten sarmale with mustard/mayo :))

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Haha, it weren’t to bad. I’ve eaten a lot worse trust me 😂

[@daffyduck1283]

@@jamiemooreexplores he was referring Sarmale it was supposed to be eaten with sour cream, NOT with mustard/mayo :). PS some people eat them spicy with chilly...

[@YanuarHernandez]

I'm new subscriber, like your videos Come to Russia Mate! 🙌🏻👍🏻

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Thanks for the sub! and I'd love to come to Russia, hopefully some day i can make it over that way 🤞🏻🙌🏻

[@nicolacarpineti7147]

Italian beer in Romania...

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Which Romanian beer would you recommend?

[@eprohoda]

D you wanna more views?, buddy-stunning .🙃

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Thanks, & I’d definitely take some more views. They will come in time 💯

[@ubuntuposix]

Sarmale should never be served cold.

[@jamiemooreexplores]

You’re absolutely right! Sarmale is best served hot-nothing beats it fresh! 😋 If you’re enjoying the content, don’t forget to subscribe for more tasty tips! 🎥🍽️

[@unitedeurope2]

@11:23 also for everyone’s education I recommend you all to check out an Arab called Christian Prince that is an expert in islamic books including the quran, in which are many things that disturbing and hidden from many of us including the muslims because 80-90 % don’t know Arabic and unfortunately they believe what the they are told and also the transitions to other languages are misleading. All the best 👍 and God bless 🙏

[@jaszczompstrzakowski5471]

he looks like cheap knock off of bald and bankrupt

[@jamiemooreexplores]

Young sir I am far from cheap 💰, but also Thankyou for commenting. I’m glad you enjoyed the video