all right welcome to cryova everybody Ivana and I have just arrived here off the 10-hour train from
Cluj we are now in wallachia and we are pretty excited to be here because quite honestly we
had never heard of cryova until like two weeks ago in fact the way we heard about crayova was
because of this viral Italian couple who planned a trip to Krakow Poland and when they got off the
plane they said this is not Poland and so they had accidentally booked a trip to kryova and as the
story unfolds they loved it and they recommended traveling Romania and they sort of accidentally
fell in love with this uh place called cryova sort of incredible that Ivana and I had been traveling
five or six months in Romania and never heard of this place and so with that in mind we have
been asking you guys what to do in cryova for the past few weeks and so this Vlog is going to take
shape as sort of a choose your adventure type Vlog because everything we're going to do today
comes straight from the YouTube comments true so special thanks to our audience starting with the
art museum now to be clear I am not the kind of person who loves an art museum but also I've never
been to an art museum so traveling is enjoyed most when you have an open mind and when I saw the
outside of the art museum I thought maybe I could like a place like this it's really epic from the
outside and for 10 lay or two American dollars entry fee I think it's it's worth it a good
tourist attraction the building itself inside is amazing all the sculptures and the whole structure
is so Grand but what really caught my eye was the lovely couple bride and groom taking their wedding
photos and so it was pretty incredible when the bride says I know you're from points and points
thank you thank you congratulations you look so beautiful and so I can tell you that taking
a selfie with a bride in an art museum was something I never thought I'd do but it was
actually the highlight of the art museum uh there is incredible artwork all around some of it is I
think original from the 1700s which is pretty special and a lot of the artwork requires some
uh interpretation so there's one piece called I believe it was the birth of Romania or maybe
the rise of Romania I'm not going to pretend to be able to identify all the symbolism in the artwork
uh but it was a pretty special place there's a bunch of other artwork there that Ivana and I
were interested in but we don't know what it represents or what it means it's a bit
interpretive at times that's right now with that being said I think one of the good things about
the art museum is just to admire the more simple artwork the landscapes any things that we can sort
of identify what they mean I did notice that a lot of Great Men in Romanian history seem to be bold
so baldness seems to be a factor in greatness maybe this is not news to anybody
okay
we have heard that I believe crayova is the heart of the place that the Romans conquered way back
when wow and so you could argue that crayova is the sort of Heart of Romania maybe this is why the
painting was there the birth of Romania but one other thing we learned from the YouTube comments
was many people said watch out in prayova it has a high crime rate you might get into trouble now
with that in mind we just walked 25 minutes from the art museum to this lovely park here
and on our experience walking around cryova we did not notice anything Troublesome or
curious or disconcerting and so I would describe the walk as very very fortebine
and with that in mind we've come to another place highly recommended which is called
parkour Nikolai romaneshko yeah okay beautiful park I think there's some history here we can
uncover before we jump back to the old town and maybe explore some more
so first things first let's go for a trip around uh Nikolai romaneshku Park let's go
thank you
all right so as it turns out this park is way too big
for Ivana and I to wander aimlessly and still find what we're looking for
I swear the walk from the art museum to the park a shorter than the walk from the entrance of
the park to what we're looking for in the park so believe it or not we're actually using Google Maps
to direct us in the park yes massive now the first thing we're trying to see is this bridge here
which I believe was built in the year 1901 so we're looking at 120 plus year old
suspension bridge what do you say Ivana you have faith in the Engineers or yeah
let me knew yeah I think no one I think originally built but obviously redone because
did you guys know I've got a bit of a passion for Bridges slowly but surely beginning to love the
uh design and just sort of admire Bridges and this one is really beautiful especially with all the
red leaves all around and the leaves changing color uh really really nice now if you look
the river is so small the other bridge is like five rocks
so I'm not sure if in 1901 the river was much bigger or maybe even in the spring the river
gets bigger I assume there was some reason for this uh bridge but feels super sturdy and
I would say I must check out not to mention free to enter the park
so this is a nice tourist attraction or tourist experience especially with the red trees up
and a bunch of birds are making noises we had some ducks on the water earlier a nice place
I think if I was a 20 year old Romanian and I was going on a date with Ivana I might take her
to the park you know sit on a bench it's kind of romantic it's a little bit of smooching on
the bench by the bridge come on you might need to buy me some roses yo by the way Yvonne is right
and here guys are always buying flowers we've seen like 15 times Romanian guy with one flower
give it to a woman what are these remaining guys doing making us all look bad out here
I thought it was February I mean is it Valentine's Day all the time reminding
you guys buy flowers every day here yes I think Romanian guys are a bit we celebrate love romantic
by the way I mean how are you saying I'm wrong everybody wants to be Romanian all
right I'll tell you what a five-star Bridge experience it doesn't look like much maybe but
really nice to be here you can feel the bridge bounce a little bit beneath your
feet and next up I believe it's called The Enchanted Castle sounds interesting let's go
ho ho ho check it out guys the Enchanted Castle now first things first what's the difference
between Enchanted and haunted is like ooh fairy tale haunted a ghost scary Enchanted is like a
positive hunting it's like yeah funny right yeah like Rapunzel all right right it's amazing Ivana
likes haunted things she believes things could be haunted and then likes to go explore them whereas
me I don't believe things will be haunted but I don't want to go explore them if they are so it's
kind of like I believe and sort of like you don't believe but uh here is the Enchanted Castle now it
looks incredible from the outside but believe it or not it was only Built to house the water tower
for the park so all the water fountains around here uh the water comes from here and they built a
cool looking building to hide the water tower good idea still built in 1905 so still very interesting
and uh beautiful but believe it or not it doesn't have much of a purpose I think it was a restaurant
for a while but nowadays it's just sort of Fallen apart and they call it the Enchanted
Castle because it was built in a way to look like it's sort of in Ruins and I think nowadays
it sort of is in Ruins because there's a bit of a construction project around the back with that
being said it's still worth coming to check out and Ivana and I have had a pretty great experience
in Nikolai romaneshku park now to be clear one of the other things that was highly recommended
was the Botanical Garden Ivana and I made a choice to see other the park or the botanical garden and
not both because it's sort of similar yeah and I don't want to say anything bad about the Botanical
Garden but I will say I think we made the right choice because this park is really really great
yeah and we've only saw two of the things we chose was the bridge and the Enchanted Castle there's a
huge Zoo there's a horse racing track wow there's a restaurant on the lake that looks pretty nice
yeah although we are going to skip that restaurant and instead go to the old town which usually in
Romanian cities is our is our favorite spot yeah the Old Town go to the Old Town walk around people
watch grab some drinks eat some food probably meech oh speaking about Mitch I'm getting hungry
so let's go to the Old Town same okay goodbye Enchanted castle and hello hold down let's go
hey cryova why you do this to me wedding dresses
wedding dresses next door wedding dresses over here Elegance wedding dresses
it's bad enough all the Romanian guys got roses in their back pocket Maya fashion wedding dresses
Bella design six in a row over here Roxy seven in a row oh the subliminal messages here cryova
oh seven eight in a row number nine oh yo yo I'm over here minding my own business just trying to
be a decent boyfriend he finally got a head full of steam she's window shopping very pretty oh very
pretty dressy I never saw it before uh literally seven or eight stores in a row wedding apparel
oh yo yo anyway we've made it to the Old Town uh I think this is the Luca of cryova
I believe it's called Gigi and you know the food is good when there's a lineup and there's no sign
for the name they have spent zero dollars on marketing and they have customers lined up
so I think uh stay tuned for our Gigi Experiment video actually shout out to the dodo explorers
and our friend Gigi but Romanians really do love their pastries don't they
we gotta find some food Ivana I am I am fading fast lots of restaurants here
yeah I think around the corner here is the main Square by the way do we have
main squares in Canada we must have a main Square in Toronto we got Nathan Phillips
Square the difference is our cities are so young that we don't have a history 500 year
old a thousand-year-old square all of the all of the history and all these squares
but unfortunately we have come the same time the uh oil tanker is coming here
what's that for I'm not gonna lie to you babe I have no idea I think it's for Big Stuff
but anyway Ivana and I really love these main squares and these old towns Ivana
is here posing like a Mary Poppins my new friend very very just gossiping you know
now Yvonne and I are super duper hungry you're hungry right yeah
I'm super starving so let's get some food before I fall asleep on the Vlog
oh Christmas decorations oh my gosh is it almost Christmas already
wow time flies when you're having fun I think we found the right area to eat Ivana
this looks very inviting corner table Sunshine they got trouble with the birthday if you want
este foreign
all right so first things first listen
a lot of couples when their food comes they would wait for the other person's meal to come Ivana has
completely finished digested wiped her face with her napkin the soup is gone and mine just arrived
to wait for your Mitch to come my soup would have became cold so you bring me you bring me to
the wedding the the the the marriage section and then you eat the whole meal before I get any food
just playing around but listen I did ask the lady about the Musical Fountain everyone's recommending
the Musical Fountain in our YouTube comments okay it seemed like she never heard of in her life
she was like this Musical Fountain I'm gonna get this one and he's like
so there is no music so no Musical Fountain it's not gonna happen now on the way here
today when we are walking out of our apartment we saw a traditional Market yeah so stay tuned
for that video I think we'll do a whole video in the traditional Market uh but first things first
how is it it's good actually
so there you have it guys uh just a simple video today the really highly recommended
Danube Gorge coming soon we are trying to rent a car oh you want to meet you
one more beer multi mask did you know you ordered to me don't know maybe in the wrong
order it's too hard to do I only got two I think I got the actually I mean menu of the day here
meech mustard and fries 25 lay right you might have ordered that by accident
well I'll tell you what Are You full maybe you're full
and you want to give me those meats as a donation to uh okay
I'll tell you what um stay tuned we're trying to rent a car we've had some difficulty running
a car in Crayola inclusion super easy yeah and super cheap yeah so we're trying to get
a car to go to the Danube gorgeous based on our amazing experience in the guard border
talk no
what's the beach comes the Vlog has to end because I'm very distracted
so what was your what was your impression of cargov because to be honest what we've
learned is a lot of Romanians are very hard on their own country yeah
my experience here uh so far so good I feel very very safe I left the park that we were just in the
park it was gorgeous the trees some of the leaves are turning red it was amazing the old town which
is actually the central is it the old town I think so because there are some old looking buildings
here yeah uh and it's very pretty as well it's small it's not as big as Cluj or timisoara or
brush up it's quite small yeah I think Crayola is the sixth biggest city in Romania six the sixth
biggest okay I'm not sure if it's in terms of size so our population but anyway yeah and people are
friendly so far maybe not English is not it's as common as the other part of Romania here yeah
but so far so good I like get lots of restaurants the food is good
all right there you have it guys um we will settle into cryova and tomorrow
we'll do the traditional Market that's cool now tomorrow Crayola good stuff coming and
hopefully we can get a car and go to the uh yeah denim gorgeous with the Mount Rushmore
highly recommended Mount Rushmore Mount uh Romanian Rushmore boom thanks guys bye
what I just realized something normally in the old town in the center it's very hard to find
traditional food but not here in cryova yesterday we went to a restaurant also served serving
traditional food I think I got the mushrooms too with Mama Liga and today I got Mitch with
chorba very good good point uh cryova old town is one of the first places we got michen yeah
you know many many old towns yeah yeah yeah
oh shout out to cryova just like that I love this place