guess what guys this travel youtuber just traveled internationally for the very first time since
lockdown and i want to tell you all about it i hadn't seen my family since last christmas
and i just missed them so much my birthday was coming up and i figured you know what now is the
time for me to visit i didn't need a coveted test and i was gonna self-isolate anyway even though it
wasn't necessary so all i did was book my flight and hopped on the bus from my neighborhood to
the airport okay so my journey is actually really nice at go close tower bridge absolutely beautiful
picturesque and then i went in the stansted express which ironically was more expensive
than my flight or about the same price which is ludicrous but anyway i digress the stansted
express was fairly empty as well and then i got to the airport and nothing happened everyone was
still social distancing there weren't that many people and whilst yes it felt a tiny bit strange
i would just compare it to a really early morning flight just shops are closed not all of them but a
lot of them not that many people around the plane was fairly empty i had the entire road to myself
which i really enjoyed it made me feel really safe and comfortable and that was it we flew for two
hours we touched down in prague something i found equal parts hilarious and also really terrifying
happened during passport control i approached the booth i gave him my document and he kind of looked
at it he looked at me and then let me through but there's a really important detail to this all this
time i had my mask on this guy could literally only see my eyes like less than half my face
and he just let me through which i thought was a little bit bizarre my dad drove me straight home
from the airport where i got to see my mom and our dog ursi for the first time i knew i'd missed them
but i feel like i hadn't realized just how much and my heart goes out to all of you that haven't
been able to see your families much this year i'm sure there's a lot of you watching that haven't
had an opportunity for health reasons distance reasons you know whatever it is and it's really
tough i didn't do that much filming in prague i just wanted to be in the moment enjoy this time
that we had together i kept up my exercise routine both my parents are very sporty you can see us
jogging around frog here which was a pretty nice backdrop okay now let's fast forward to october
the 4th ie my 27th birthday i woke up early so i could get a bit of exercise done i've been loving
a channel called the body project after that i was asked to kindly lock myself in my room
so my parents could prep something in the living room which ended up being this really random game
where they um blindfolded me and they made me guess what fruit was what based on nothing but
touch and at some point i had to eat dry salad so that was fun my parents used to put on these
incredible birthday parties for me when i was younger so it's a bit of a throwback
and yeah it was really sweet after that i put some makeup on i got ready and we hopped in the car
in order to go see my grandparents that was an absolute highlight of the entire trip we went to
a restaurant that i actually celebrated my 18th birthday in nine years ago if you do
ever go to pilsen check out this restaurant ve vilach it means in the villas and it's gorgeous
so that was my 27th birthday which was exciting but i have something even more exciting to share
with you guys and that is drumroll please an announcement and the announcement is
i'm launching my own tours my friend helen and i are launching a tour to malawi and
we want you to join us yes you there is a link in the description below where you can
read all about the itinerary and what we'll be doing the trip is taking place in july of 2021
and we still have nine spots left oh my god oh my god oh my god you guys i just had my first
booking for the malawi trip i am so so excited like helen and i have been planning this trip
for quite a long time now but we couldn't put it online because of code whatever it's online
it's been online for like less than an hour and somebody has like fully booked put down a deposit
this is real i am freaking out okay i look like a maniac i need to stop
no i am honestly still buzzing i can't wait to go on this trip with you guys it's gonna
be so much fun and yeah i'm excited but enough about that next up in this video
we have a very very short travel vlog within a travel vlog i've got a really special video for
you today i am exploring an area called czech switzerland in the czech republic
and it is one of the most beautiful hikes that i have ever been on you got these two with me
father mother and sorry three sister sister very rude um she's being carried
the entire way which is great for her i wish there was a service like that for mom
at the very beginning of the trip we parked our car in a place called
where are we in transit you guys try pronouncing that now i think you actually legally have to be
checked to be able to make that sound our first port of call was a place called frafchitzka brana
it's this incredible natural gait made of stone in case you guys are wondering about my pronunciation
by the way a lot of you guys asked me like where are you really from i am czech i was born here but
then i grew up in austria and i moved to um forgot i moved to the uk when i was 17 to get my degree
and then i moved around a lot so i have a bit of a blended accent sometimes it's a bit more british
sometimes it's a bit more north american very confusing for a lot of people but that's the story
right the gate we saw was probably one of the most famous natural phenomena in the area but
there is a second one it's a ravine it's a gorge that you can walk through or i'm hoping to do
you can take a boat across it there's a guy or a woman that takes you across
and tells you all about the history of the region and stuff like that
but the big caveat is that you can only cross until 5 pm and our estimated time of arrival is
7 minutes too so let's see how we get on i should probably stop vlogging that's just vlogging the
whole thing all right i've got good news and i've got good news the good news is that we made it and
the second set of good news is that it's gorgeous as in gorgeous look at it yeah guys sometimes it
actually pays to be late because we got the final bow we put that one over there full as this one
all mine ish first boat right done it was pretty fun but somewhat overpriced it cost
80 check crowns and it took about 10 minutes maybe less however it is
fun to get on the boat a and b you will be pretty tired at this point so it's probably
worth it and now we're gonna walk for about a kilometer and a half and get on the next boat
the entire route is about 16 kilometers which to me personally sounded like a fair bit but actually
i have to say i'm not even that tired and i'm not i'm not the sportiest person out there i do try
but you try okay we're nearly done with the wob but i think we're gonna stop off for some food
honestly how incredible is that place if you are visiting the czech republic or that region
of germany which is around leipzig and dresden i highly recommend it and now i want to talk to you
about my other flight because flying in a pandemic can be a little bit stressful
i got to the airport everything was totally fine social distancing people wearing masks
no problem whatsoever when it got to boarding i was actually very pleasantly surprised because
even though this was british airways who obviously have priority customers they didn't do priority
boarding but rather they invited people row by road that meant that the aisle was never too
busy people were keeping their distance and i felt really really great until i got to my seat and i
realized that there were two people sitting next to me now i'd obviously only been on one flight
before that and i just assumed that the seating chart was created in a way where you would never
sit next to another person unless they were from your household however that didn't turn out to be
the case and i suddenly got really stressed i had nothing against these two lovely gentlemen
who were sat there but i just really really didn't want to sit next to them so i went up to
the airstream desk and i very politely asked her if she would mind re-seating me luckily there
was enough space on the plane and they actually needed somebody next to the emergency exit but it
did make me wonder why don't they do the seating chart differently i'm no expert they are but yeah
i was a bit baffled by that after touching down in heathrow i just had to go through passport control
that was really simple they had those electronic boosts open and this time i was thoroughly checked
without a mask on unlike back in prague right on my way to baggage claim nobody around you can take
this down for a bit and yeah flight went smoothly i had to fill in a form before arriving here okay
about this document it takes about 10 minutes to fill out there are quite a few pages but the
information that it asks is very simple it's about where you're traveling from where you're traveling
to and where you'll be staying the uk has a list of countries that you can freely travel to and
from that means you don't need to have a coveted test and you don't need to quarantine however
with the situation in the czech republic quickly deteriorating sadly um i do have to quarantine so
i am currently in my 14-day quarantine but then when i got home i was welcomed by my flatmates
who'd prepared a little surprise birthday party for me which was really sweet they made
cupcakes and bought refreshments so that was a great thing to come back to and a wonderful place
to end this vlog thank you so much for watching let me know what you think about traveling in
a pandemic would you do it would you not why discuss and i'll speak to you next friday bye