Welcome to Odesa, Ukraine during the coronavirus lockdown!
A lot of you have written to me over the 10 days or so since I made a vodcast from here
in Odesa about the situation.
What's going on?
We're going to take a little tour of Odesa during the coronavirus.
I'm standing here just beside the main train station.
Now that normally would be of course packed with travelers coming from all over Ukraine
or leaving for other parts of Ukraine or even internationally and of course, all these inter-city
transport links formal links have been suspended for the moment.
If you're watching this in the future, we're basically at the beginning of April in 2020
and basically you cannot get a train or a bus to another city in Ukraine obviously flights
have also been suspended now for over we'll it's about 2 weeks.
Well the first thing that I'm suffering from is all the hairdressers are closed so for
the last few weeks, I haven't been able to get a haircut.
I'm hoping to rectify that pretty soon because it's becoming a little bit uncomfortable with
the amount of growth with this hair.
More inconvenient of course is the fact that most shops and restaurants, bars and clubs
all big events are cancelled so obviously sporting events in the country, like concerts
but it is possible to obviously get food.
There's no run on the supermarkets so far but for intensively purposes it's just a little
bit boring but there are some upsides also to what's going on so let's go
and take a little bit of a walk around Odesa during the coronavirus lockdown
Поехали!
So now I'm on Deribasivska. This is the main pedestrian street in Odesa.
Normally this would be thronged with people. Look at the beautiful weather we have at the beginning of April
and this street is obviously full of shops and restaurants and cafes.
There's the classic Kompot down the street behind me which is an Odesa classic to kind of people watch from
There is obviously no one allowed sit out on a terrace
although the restrictions here are not as bad as I've seen online where the rules in Kyiv, the capital
and also which means basically there it's a lot stricter about wearing masks, you cannot actually pick up coffee
or take away yourself it has to be delivered to you from what I understand in the capital
here you can go and pick up some coffee, it's not a big deal. Well it's possible at least in the city center
Now Ukrainians as I am often telling you in the videos on my channel are not renowned for being law abiding
the rule of law is pretty low here
especially when compared to neighboring Belarus which has a stronger tradition of rule of law
since its independence so in general even though there are rules and recommendations here
there's a little bit of leeway, the police are not as strict as they might be from what I've seen online
with the British and French police stalking people with drones. You don't see that here at all.
In Odesa for sure, I haven't heard about it in Ukraine so definitely it's less likely that people are going to follow
the rules here and there's a lot more flexibility and the fact that the weather is beautiful
and not everything is closed and of course
it's still Ukraine it's still full of hot chicks and pretty girls walking even if they are wearing fashionable masks
a little bit that makes it probably almost the best place in Europe to be stuck during the coronavirus lockdown
Odesites, they definitely still have a sense of humor, that famous одесский юмер
is still strong here with the poster of Richelieu who was the founder of the city here in Odesa
and him wearing a mask. There is his famous statue over by the Potemkin Steps when you get to come here
after the quarantine is lifted, you should definitely check it out
So I've come down here to the Otrada Beach area. It's not very far from the center.
It's just a couple of kilometers and I had heard that there were a lot of people out running here
doing sport. It's a lot less than I think it was before when the quarantine started definitely you see less and less
people here it's started to take more of a severe effect but at the same time there are still people out
walking around officially groups of more than 2 people here are not allowed but apparently
if you're one person it's fine you'll see a lot of couples out here walking around and it doesn't seem
to be that strictly enforced anyways there are groups bigger than that
but definitely you don't see massive groups of obviously 50 people
you see a lot of joggers going up and down so I guess Odesites have been getting fitter probably
during this quarantine now the internal travel within the city because I came here down to the sea by taxi
there are still the buses running marshutki and the trams in the city
so it's just inter-city transport links have been suspended but actually intra-city is still running
and basically life is pretty tranquil here there's no panic
and people are trying to do as much as they can it is just a little boring because a lot of places are closed
not all shops are closed, I saw that Vodafone was open, at least something with Vodafone written above it
it could have just been a phone repair shop so there are still a few places open you can get coffee
to can get food to take away the supermarkets are all working so it's just a little bit dull at the moment
I would say in general here
So that's my overview at the beginning of April of the coronavirus lockdown in Odesa in Ukraine so
drop me a comment below in the comments section to the video how what I've shown you here
in this video compares to the situation in your hometown how you're getting on how you're suffering
because I assume that you are suffering in some sense you had your freedoms curtailed
I have seen some videos online showing San Francisco with no one there all drone footage
also I saw one from Odesa but it's not really representative at least of here because
they must have shot that video at dawn at 6 or 7 am because there are people walking around
it's not completely deserted it does look kind of I guess unusual to get those kinds of shots
but I don't think that it's representative and I want you to actually get a sense of feeling what it's like here
I have been using my time as productively as possible. I am working on a new video course
and I've made a lot of progress. We're actually ahead of schedule for probably the first time ever for when I do
something. We're ahead of schedule because I don't have as many distractions
So definitely you'll want to be subscribed to this channel if you want to find out about the video course
it's going to be launched in about 2 weeks and it's going to be the fundamentals for dating beautiful women
in Eastern Europe. That's going to be the sense of it. It's going to be taking my knowledge of traveling and dating
here in the last 10 years and synthesizing that into a video for you to learn from it's going to be the
fundamentals and I'm really excited about it. It's also taken a lot of the points that I've learnt
having clients in the last year which has been really really beneficial in terms of understanding exactly
the problems that you're most likely to face coming here as a foreigner so not just my own experience
but also those that I coach in person that I mentor
so you also want to have whacked that notification bell
to get notified because I'm going to have a series of videos very soon after this video is released
probably about 10 days within 10 days there's going to be a series of videos you'll want to watch those
and find out more about the course
I did have a free pdf outlining my secret places to meet and bring beautiful women in cities like Minsk
Kyiv and Odesa. It might still be there when this goes out
I wasn't going to leave it up for very long. It normally costs $250 to get that information
just have a look in the description for that and if it's still there do it straight away
when you're watching this because it will probably be gone within a day or 2
with me uploading this video looking at my schedule and yeah basically what I'm going to do
I'm actually kind of happy to have this project to be able to share with you and to give you some of the coaching
knowledge the fundamental coaching knowledge that you would get if you were to come with me
in person yeah I hope that you're healthy that you don't get the coronavirus
or if you do get it then that's only mild symptoms, stay strong, stay safe, stay healthy
and see you in the another video very soon
до побачення до свидания from Odesa, Ukraine!