OUR WALK THROUGH OLD GRODNO IN BELARUS

Welcome back to Aot Adic Adventures. Today is May 1st and we're in Gradnau, Barus. We just left Katya's parents or not parents, but her mother, her brother, her sister-in-law, all her nephews, and I have to tell you, we had a lovely time. They were very, very gracious. But now we are back. We are back at our beautiful hostel. I'm very romantic, guys. We're back and we just uh you know, we freshened up a little bit and now we're going to go hit the town. So, uh enjoy. Okay, so here's uh same building but right next door. It looks like it's a uh I don't know, restaurant, bar. It's called temple and has has a lot of lot of nice people on the terrace. It's very nice. And then uh here we have uh place called pink. Looks like a cocktail bar. I mean, listen, if you if your theme is pink at a at a bar, you're you're attracting women at the cocktail bar. And then we have here uh honey, what what's this called? Patna. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Looks nice. Okay. So anyways, here's the main square. Uh we like it. We like it. We got uh Miata Miata Bar. There's probably about 25 Miata bars in Minsk and I don't know how many in in Barus. Probably a hundred seems like it. But they're everywhere. But you know, it's a good quality. It's good quality. Um, yeah. And you know, they like to do a lot of hookah. A lot of hookah there. Katya's into hookah. No, no, she's not into smoke at all. And look at look at the building here. Look at that. It's very nice. You got you got people being romantic. 17year-olds being romantic in the park on a park bench. And then we have some uh What do we have up here, honey? We have some kiosks. What are they selling in these little uh little houses? Oh, yeah. Yeah, kiosk. Everybody's out open when we have holidays. Yeah. Well, it's worker. It's workers day, right? Yes. International workers. Oh, look. Oh, look. Let's go in here. Look at this. There's a sky sign. There's a nice little bar. Yeah. Another nice little place. Oh, this is this is this is the area that we we got dropped off at by the taxi from the from the train station. Yes. We got dropped off over there and we walked in. Yes. And we're like, "Hey, this is cool. It's very cool. All right, let's go check it out." And look, we had we had some coffee and maybe a beer right here. And it has a uh has a uh a fish tank. The bar is like a fish tank. You get koi. I guess it's called koi. Koi goldfish. But yeah, look at that. Very nice. Let's let's go let's go in here. Let's go in here. Just just just for wondering. That's fine. Come on. No wonder drinking. It's I like it. I want to show people. I want to show people the fish tank bar. Right. Okay. Let's do it. Oh, okay. Okay. No reservations. It's very popular. But I I did show you the fish tank bar. What? Honey, what? How beautiful. What? Oh, the church. Yes. Oh, yeah. Look at the church. It's Orthodox Christian church, right? Every every city in Barus has an Orthodox church, which is nice. Uh, let's go let's go check it out over here. Or you want to go this way? Yeah. I want to see some new place. All right, let's go. Let's go. And here's the apartment. Yeah. Okay, here we go. This is where all the action is, honey. Look at all the kiosk. You can get peo sausages. And do you know what this is? Doesn't say. No. Yeah, I don't know what it is either, but it looks nice. It's probably like some sort of museum. No, it's not museum. I have no idea. I wish I knew, guys. I'm very sorry. I don't know. I'm just winging it. But look at the square with all the kiosk. You got doggies. You got uh barbecue barbecue going on. It's very nice. Got another uh looks like Orthodox church there. All always I don't know if you guys ever thought about this, but always the biggest buildings in a city is is always the church and a bank. So religion and finance. So um okay. Wow. You like it? Hi. Go to that way. I don't know. Let's go over here. Let's go. Let's go. Yeah. All right. Let's go. That's a really nice food truck. Everybody's out. Look, look at these little cars for the children. Katya, look. Little scooters. Yes. It's too too small for you. Wow. Everybody's out tonight. Very nice. Young and old are out. But I got to tell you, um, Gradau, um, I haven't been to too many, uh, cities in Bellarus, but Grodnau is right next to, uh, Poland, and it actually used to be a Polish town. So, the architecture is very similar uh, to Poland. Very nice. Yes. Very nice. And are these is this lights going to go on soon? These Christmas lights up above. So this So this must be like the center of gradu of old town. Yeah. Center of Oldtown. So, how many times have you been here? One. Oh, this is your second time. Yeah, it's my second. Okay. Oh, what's this over here? Look. [Music] Looks nice. Grill. Gr. You want to go? Uh, maybe later. Let's walk down here. Let's walk down here. We'll go there later. I want to show everybody. Look how beautiful. Look at that terrace. Awesome. Pretty cool. [Music] We got our We got our street performers, honey. [Applause] [Music] [Music] Okay. Oh, look. What do we have here, honey? What's this? Oh, it's like something. I don't know what Yeah, I like it. It's a good vibe. Good energy. I like it and definitely um different architecture than most other Russian cities. [Music] Nice. Where is the nightclub? Okay. Oh, where it says bar? Okay. Nice. Oh, they have kino. Yeah. Well, I got to tell you, um, if there's kino in a in a nightclub, it's nightclub's probably not very good. That's my thoughts. What do we have? Look at this. Look at the music, right? or the Oh, the arch. Yeah, the arch. Oh, it's going to be Yeah, they'll be lit. Flowers. Flowers. Oh, they're flowers. Yes. Okay. Oh, when it's lit up, you mean? Yeah. In the summer they uh put flowers. Okay. It's my idea. That's what you think. I'm not the idea. Okay. Well, it looks interesting. And I think at night Well, let's look. I think it's for flowers. I don't. Okay. Okay. Flowers. Yeah, but it's not. I thought my mind I thought it was for lights. And it doesn't look like it's for lights. Look like You're right. Flowers. So, they probably want to do it in the summertime. We got flowers here. Well, why I mean well spring is kind of it's kind of early for for Bellarus. Usually in May it starts blooming. So I think in by June there'll be flowers on these arches. You're right. You're right. Wow. Very cool. Honey, I hope we can get back cuz I'm lost. I think about it. Wouldn't it be cool to have like an apartment right up there overlooking to people? Yeah. Obie would love it. Oh, Obie would be out there every day all day long and he would be quiet unless he saw a dog. Then once he saw it die, it's all over. He's like all over it. Okay. Okay. So, what what European town does not have a Burger King? Oh, you you got to have a Burger King. But you know what? Out of all the fast food chains, Burger King I hear least about how damaging it is to your body. I don't know if that just just a thought. They do have good Whoppers with double whoppers with cheese. Um yeah. What do we have here? A mall. Yeah. Oh yeah, there's clothing store there. Okay. Hot fix. Honey, what is the difference between hot fix and cold fix? Can you Can you tell me what's the difference between hot fix and cold fix? What's do you do? You know hot fix and what fix? Hot fix and cold fix. I think it's the same. I think so, too. I think so, too. Oh, what? [Music] Oh, hello. You You guys speak English? Yes. Oh, okay. Great. So, uh, how are you? I think good. Is this is this the hot spot to hang out when you're an adolescence? Uh, I think yes. Uh, but, uh, in other countries is more good place to hang out. Not our country, but maybe. No, this is a nice place. Yes, of course. Now, now what are you guys in high school? Yes. So, you're like what? 16 17 15 15 Okay. What's your curfew? Just curious. When When does your parents say you have to come home tonight? Um I think uh they don't think that I came home. They just go out and So you can come home at 5 in the morning and it's fine. Um, no. But maybe so what do you So are you guys going to go to college? You guys going to go to university? Uh, she at college. And what are you going to study at university? She don't understand English. No. But what is she going to study? What does she want? What does she want to be when when she grows up? Okay. So, we're going to we're going to close this video out. Um I've only been here like How long have we been here? Like maybe uh 8 hours, 9 hours, 10 hours, something like that. And we already have a favorite bar cuz it's right around the corner from our hostel. And uh we love it because uh the bar is actually a look It's actually a fish tank. Has a really good service, good atmosphere, and it's 2-minute walk from our hostel. So, uh, anyways, I hope you enjoyed this video. Until next time, ciao.