Hello, We are starting the last episode from Belarus The weather is very bad, it has been raining since yesterday we don't really know what to do but we want to see something more and we only have a few hours left but there are still a few interesting places to see We'll definitely get a little wet, but it doesn't bother us, we'll manage somehow I wanted to show you what breakfast we had in the morning but it was so terrible that I didn't even take out my phone the weather is really nasty We were actually planning to be in Płock today for the Polish Hip Hop Festival but unfortunately we already know that we will be stuck at the border Our plan is to hide from the rain for a while because now it is raining a little more the weather is not good today today we have a mission to check this McDonald's here, is it a fake or is it maybe McDonald's just with a different name? a lot of people asked us about it, a lot of people said that it is still McDonald's, but it has a different name for PR reasons Think how many McDonald's they would have to close across Russia I think it would be several thousand restaurants they could have just changed the name and left these restaurants We'll check it out in a moment because it's very interesting I will tell you that there are many places here that have a strong communist atmosphere but, for example, this shopping center has a normal world standard and is no different from shopping centers in Europe We're going somewhere to drink Lavazza coffee now, but I'll see what stores there are here, there's DJI, there's New Balance there are a lot of very normal stores but now I am most interested in this McDonald's because we already saw it yesterday we saw it and recorded it, but only later people started to suggest it to us They told us to go inside, try it and let know what's inside Is this totally the same as McDonald's? But we'll find out if this is true Here's a rather interesting and unique KFC I must admit that it is an interesting location we are right next to the Mak.by restaurant We'll go there in a moment. And first, we'll go to a restaurant that was recommended by many people from Belarus it's called Lido and it's up here is this a chain or not? I don't think so. But this Wasylki restaurant yesterday was a chain that restaurant was also recommended by many people, and the second one is the Lido restaurant Alicja and I usually like local food so we're going to try it There are various salads here, but I don't think we'll eat them because potato pancakes are no longer available The food here is great, the buffet has good prices but they don't have pancakes And I must admit that it is really nice inside and there is a nice view but we wanted to eat something else here is the menu so you can probably order something else give it to me I'll translate it I guess something went wrong or the food just wasn't what we wanted If someone, for example, wanted a cutlet with potatoes, fine, because it was just like a milk bar we like milk bars, but today we want to eat something different eat something else, but let's go to McDonald's, it makes sense we want to check out this McDonald's and what the food looks like and how it tastes is it something else or is it one big scam It smelled like a canteen, not even like a milk bar, Mak.by looks identical to McDonald's From the outside it looks just identical to McDonald's looks identical Everything inside looks exactly the same just the same I get the Big Mac and cheeseburger combo and I'll take a cheeseburger with fries and we'll see what it tastes like big test of the Belarusian McDonald's but everything looks the same, just packaged differently. It is delicious Unwrap the cheeseburger everything looks the same Show me the Big Mac again. Okay, Big Mac looks a little different in Poland I'm eating a cheeseburger right now and the Big Mac is a bit different than in Poland, but I haven't eaten a Big Mac in Poland for several years. so I don't know, maybe it has changed a bit in Poland too but the cheeseburger tastes identical 1 to 1, the same This is a bit of a scam, why do they say they are withdrawing and only changing the name Unless they just didn't care and made one-to-one copies but I guess there are some copyrights, and where did they get all these regulations? But what would it matter to Russia? when McDonald's withdrew from the country, they could have made a copy like this It would be difficult to duplicate all these recipes because they all tasted identical now we have some Polish Accent here Let's not say that we are here and we won't show it because it needs to be shown This is the Adam Mickiewicz monument Adam Mickiewicz Something strange, our navigation was still working normally. Now, when I try to turn it on, it keeps showing me that we are at the airport I'm trying to turn on VPN and it doesn't work either Minsk airport and we are many kilometers away from it Among such interesting facts about Minsk, I can tell you that it is the least visited European capital why is probably known I won't say why, but it's also a plus that there are no crowds here, it's quite relaxed everywhere we go there are not too many traffic jams in the city so it's a special place in some way Is it worth coming here? In my opinion, Minsk is a nice city, but I don't know if it's worth coming here just for Minsk because you will be waiting for a very long time at the border crossing because there is only one open where we arrived, i.e. the Terespol Brześć border crossing buses theoretically have their own route and should arrive easily, but we waited 8 and a half hours and apparently it's still quite a good result The driver told us that we would have to wait 10 hours, so 8 and a half hours was still relatively good We'll see how it goes this way, we plan to take a taxi to the border we were told not to buy a bus ticket and no one does that, they just want to go as close to the border as possible, as close to the border crossing as possible and only then take any bus there, thanks to which we will save much more time We were walking for a while and suddenly a guy started talking to us in Polish it turned out that he works at the embassy and knows us, he is Polish, We talked for a while, if you see this episode, we greet you it was nice to talk in Polish for a while because there is generally no option to speak Polish this guy told us that if someone wants to go to Belarus, it is better to go through Lithuania it also depends on which part of Poland someone is coming from, because if they are coming from the very south of Poland, it probably makes no sense, but on the other hand, if someone has to wait 10 hours in a queue, it probably doesn't matter anymore there are a lot of nice buildings here, maybe they are embassies, we are already in the very center We are on Victory Square and there is an obelisk in the middle exactly 40 m high and was built in 1954 now Let's take a ride on the subway in Minsk because it looks nice Now we are in the underground passage under this monument, it looks nice, you can see there are some names on the wall there are different images and here in the middle there is something like this there it is 41 and there it is 45. They have a different date for the start of World War II In our country, World War II started in 1939 and they consider it to have started in 1941. Here, you can see different things in your eyes, but everything is in their language. Additionally, there are various images around here And now we're going to take a ride on the subway because a lot of people tell us that it's worth doing it and seeing what the subway stations look like because they say they're very nice. It must be said that I haven't even taken the metro in Warsaw yet, I have to make up for it because it's a bit of a shame I have to do it sometime, just for a ride, even for no particular reason in Warsaw we have two metro lines crossing, right? Well, I have to go there someday out of pure curiosity we are right here near the monument We have to go there exactly along the route we have now taken on foot and we will go a little further to this station different metro lines are shown here, there are probably three maybe they only have three metro lines and there is a train here, so we will be in the perfect place there is the exit from the station and the two towers that I showed you, on one of them there is a clock and on the other there is a hammer and sickle it is like a gateway to the city because everyone who comes is there and it is the official entrance to the city we'll show you again later because maybe you didn't watch yesterday's episode here is the metro here is our station We were just going to the station, where we are going now? We're going to see Lenin's monument now there is also a train here, I talked about it a moment ago Alicja listens to me this way, sometimes I feel like I'm just talking into the air I don't talk like that. Well, because I always listen to you because sometimes you talk so much nonsense that I turn my ears off This is my advice for a successful relationship - to stop talking sometimes. And my advice is to be patient don't listen to everything one of the last places we visit here is the square with the Lenin monument Before the first part of the episodes from Belarus, we did live Many of you have seen it, some people probably haven't. Sorry, my camera was dirty There were many questions asked that we could not answer or we didn't want to answer it because we didn't want to get burned in the episode from Belarus not to reveal too much, but there were certainly many questions that were not answered so if there is anything else you would like to know, write it here in the comments questions about our trip to Belarus, We will try to answer them all If you haven't found the answer in the episodes yet, please ask your question in the comments one thing we definitely have to do before we leave here, which is eat potato pancakes We are at the station and a steam train has just arrived here, honking its horn and steam flying there it is about the fact that everyone who comes to Minsk leaves the station here and sees the gate to the city i.e. these two towers that welcome everyone in Minsk farewell dinner in Minsk, I had pancakes with goulash and Alicja has with mushroom sauce 15:01 train Minsk-Brest the train is waiting for us it is very well marked and you can get around easily now we will have normal seating We got on the train and there was a fight because someone was sitting in our seat And that's not here at all I don't think our train is here everything is well marked here and it's very easy to get around There is a problem because our train is not here and we don't know where And another train, so I guess this one is ours there were two different trains on one platform. Imagine what would have happened if that lady hadn't been sitting in those seats, we would have just sat there and rode away. We started arguing that this was definitely the wagon and that these were our seats Did you see where that train was going? city starting with g they have such a nice train here I think this is our car number 4 We were traveling in that direction by train with beds where you could lie down, and now we have a normal seat, so let me tell you, it's a big difference. I will also say diplomatically that there are bigger people sitting across from us there is very little space We are back in Brest. Look how beautiful the weather is here really beautiful and once we left Minsk it became nice now to eat something, we know that our travels are about food, so let's go eat something what's the best thing about traveling? Of course food a quick dinner before leaving because we don't know how much time we will spend at the border a typical local dish here, cheese and potato balls do they taste good? They are delicious What's the sauce for this? Garlic We start the mission titled Border