Did you know that it's not just Paris, France that has the Arc de Triomphe? There's also one here
Arcul de Triumf Salut din Chișinău now so I'm in the capital of Moldova, Chișinău
and it is about day 140ish of Russia's invasion of Ukraine the new invasion and the biggest question
that I've been getting from clients and also viewers here on my channel on youtube is Conor
where do we go now that while there's a war in Ukraine and most of the guys who write me
don't want to go to Belarus or to Russia with the current situation so what are the options left in
the wild east of Europe? Well today I am going to outline a few reasons why you should come to
Moldova as a substitute for the rest of Eastern Europe in the summer of 2022. Поехали! Hai mergem!
So with the war in Ukraine raging nearby the first question a lot of people's mind is is it
safe to come to Moldova? And the answer is yes here I am on a Sunday evening in the center of the city
you can see there's lots of families out there's no air raid sirens and Moldova thankfully so far and
fingers crossed that it stays that this way has not been involved in the war for now Moldova
is very safe and walk around the city center of Chișinău is not dangerous at all in terms of petty
crime or like that no no more dangerous going anywhere else in Europe for sure now coming in
and out you have an international airport here in Chișinău now the flights are still working actually
flew from Dublin here on a Romanian airline some of the low cost airlines have relocated to Iași
which is on the border with Moldova and Romania because Moldovan airspace was closed for a short
time at the beginning of Russia's invasion on the 24th of February of Ukraine and the country has
a pretty generous visa-free program for most nationalities so it's about normally 90 days
visa-free if you need to stay longer in 90 days you can look at residency and actually have a link
down below in the description if you want some more help with that kind of stuff because that's
what I advise on so consulting down below in the video description but long and short of it is that
you don't need to worry at the moment for sure about your safety for summer 2022 in Moldova
Reason number two to come to magical Moldova with summer 2022
is for you've guessed it the beauty of the local ladies my audience is like 97 percent
male it's maybe even higher than that so you were interested Conor
if we can't go to Ukraine, Belarus or Russia where can you go in Eastern Europe that has
beautiful women? Well definitely Moldova is one of them in terms of you know just the appearance here
Moldova would be kind of halfway between what you'd see normally in Romania which is normally
dark hair and brown eyes maybe it's kind of a very typical look and you know compare that with
in Ukraine where people tend to maybe have lighter features in terms of blonde hair blue eyes being a
little bit more common although it's not as common as people think Moldova is kind of in between so
that's what you're going to get in terms of a look and having flown back from Ireland Western Europe
one of the first things that we notice getting here is how much slimmer I think people are in
general but also that includes younger women as well so yeah you're not going to see
too many obese people here especially under the age of 40 in Moldova so that's another big plus
I don't care what the mainstream media says about body positivity it is not healthy to be overweight
or obese in particular and that you see a lot less here so people definitely look after their weight
a lot more big plus but yeah it is comparable I would say yeah in my experience you're
going to see more beautiful women here than you're going to see on average say in Romania
maybe a little bit less than you're going to see in Ukraine but then again Ukraine
is one of the best places in the world so it's a pretty good substitute let's head on
So the next reason I like to discuss is the price level because here in Moldova I'm in the capital
Chișinău it's probably about the same price level as in Kyiv the capital of Ukraine that would be
typically at least half the price for most things than you are used to if you're from the West so in
particular from a big city like Paris or London or New York or LA it's going to be at least half the
price here and it may actually be significant more than than that in terms of the price reduction it
can be 20 percent if we're talking about things like maybe real estate and certain things that
are grown locally in particular like if you go to the supermarket it's gonna be a hell of a lot less
than half the price having spent the last two months in Ireland where things are very expensive
compared to here so and it's not just about having cheap stuff I've always emphasized on my channel
getting value and here at the top end you do get like good restaurants great clubbing scene bars
you know everything that you'll be able to get back home more or less it's not going to be the
same selection that you will find in a big super city like Moscow or St Petersburg or Kyiv or even
Odesa which is summer capital in Ukraine because here the population is about
a little bit over 600,000 people so it's not a massive city it's very similar in terms of look
actually to Ukraine I would say but maybe it just adds a little bit more of that smaller city vibe
because it's not a big bustling metropolis but definitely value for money forte bine aici!
The next reason to come to magical Moldova is maybe you can see it on the sign if I get it
to change the languages because here a lot of people have been asking me in particular since
the invasion in Ukraine who have been from guys who've been learning Russian is where can I go
now because even though Russian is not official language of Ukraine you know there are a lot of
cities where it's the main spoken language like in Odesa or Kharkiv or Dnipro and going
to Belarus is also not so popular same with going to obviously Russia where everybody speaks in Russian
so there are other cities in the former Soviet Union where it is spoken one would be maybe Almaty
in Kazakhstan but also here you're going to see that even though Romanian is the only official
language of Moldova that Russian is pretty common you see some things translated into Russian there
because they were in the Soviet Union and basically everybody here almost everybody
can speak good Russian and you will you will just hear it spoken almost as much if you walk
around Chișinău as Romanian itself now a little bit similar to Ukraine you're not going to see
as much of Russian written I just pointed to one sign but in general actually most things are now
written in Romanian everywhere it's like I would say 95 percent of stuff so you're not going to see
so much written in Russian but everyone is going to speak it and there's no issue with speaking
Russian here whatsoever and level of English which is what probably everybody else except for
the language freaks wanna know is yeah the level of English it's about the same as being in Odesa or
Kyiv or Moscow or St Petersburg so it's gonna be less than you're gonna find in say Central Europe
going to Warsaw or Budapest it's going to be less here by a good bit probably less than Romania for sure
but if you wanted a mainstream holiday go with the lads down to Majorca
drinking then you're probably not going to be watching my channel anyway so
definitely English it's possible you will get by in English if you come here but if you do want
to practice your Russian it's also a place where you can do it so let's get into the last reason and
actually this festival behind me I'm about a walk into is actually the clue to what it is about let's go
So the final reason to come to Moldova is for the wine here at the wine festival in Chișinău got
very loud music behind me but I'm gonna go up and get a glass this is Pucari it's one of my favorite
Moldovan wineries and did you know that Moldova has some of the biggest wine collections in the world
they have these cool vineyards with these labyrinths underground that you go to Milești Mici
and also Cricova which I've been to in previous vlogs I've done it for the channel Chișinău
so let me get a glass of Moldova wine very tasty and then yeah enjoy it it's gonna be the final
the final reason to come to Moldova it's for the wine most people aren't aware of that
so noroc as they say in Moldova from the wine festival of Chișinău la revedere!
See you maybe later this summer in magical Moldova давай!