What did you expect to find in an abandoned industrial area out of town ?

The end of this video, with Ben saying goodbye to Cat whilst stuck all alone in a dingy and depressing hovel of an hotel room in Paris, was very fitting. Ben's dawning realisation that travelling with Cat was a whole lot more fun than travelling alone will hopefully make him appreciate that one rarely stumbles across girls as genuinely natural and nice, as well as courageous, as her. I am hopeful they will be reunited in the future.

Sick that you visited Charleroi! Im from Belgium myself and ive also been there a few times to explore, ive also visited many of the places in this video. I personally think Charleroi is underrated, its such a raw place and i love the harsh contrast from all the abandoned factories, houses and the regular city. During the pandemic, Charleroi was for me the closest i could come to having the same feeling of really traveling, Because even as a Belgian it really gave me the feeling i was in a different country although its only 1,5 hour from my place.

Dear Ben, I’m so glad you’ve made so many vlogs recently, they have been well enjoyed. I love Cat’s charisma and everything about her! You both do a really good job narrating where you are and it’s nice you reply to sometimes! Ben and Cat fan! 🎉

World’s ugliest city? American Rust Belt: “Hold my beer.”

An idea. If you go to NY, you might be interested to check out all of the abandoned mountain resorts in NY. Like the Catskills. Many resorts were just left rotting as they were. A lot of pics on line. People seem to be able to walk in. I've never been, but always found that fascinating. Beautiful area at the same time.

You didn't even look for a nice part, just abandoned industrial areas. I had to go to the airport and had a look around... Belgium infrastructure is falling to bits in places, true. But where isn't ? Slack video, Ben.

Hi Ben. In my opinion you lucky to have her around unless you 2 need a break for a bit. That's okay too. Ty for the uploads ! Happy everything !

Thanks for sharing Ben 🙂I feel that this video also could be called "Dreaming of a Post-Apocalypse"

Ben shows the good *AND* the bad of all countries. That I appreciate! Cat's presence was unexpected and pleasant. She probably won't be able look at Belgium the same way ever again 😅

industrial heartland that has done it's time !!! Good video , we love Catarina !!! Keep making video's with her !!! Thanks

Thanks buddy , u've tried the new things for adventure to other countries Ben!

It's not ugly at all, it's far from the ugliest, it's just abandoned. I like its industrial style and graffiti! At least there are people and a warm market there! If you want to find the ugliest ones, you should go to Chi_a. There are many abandoned cities there without graffiti or even people! But it is very dangerous there, you can just watch videos, don't need to go there. I like your British humor, so funny! BTW, so happy to know kat home safe! Take good care, and happy travels! 👍🤩🙌

An encore episode with the ever courageous and smiling Cat?! Christmas has come early👏🏻 Sadly, I think there are many cities in the USA that are as bad if not worse. Always great to see a new video the legendary BB. 👍🏻👏🏻🙏🤙🏻✌🏻 P.S. I’d put a ring on that were I you😉

Love your travels Ben en lovely that Cat was here also! And I was grinning a bit during your video, as I was thinking of another channel of a guy named @shiey. I think he would be tripping and climbing up everything saying how beautiful everything is. I guess I am more in line with you though Ben🙂 By the way was a dutchman I hope you will visit Belgium again, as there are amazing old and beautiful cities there.

Another brilliant video mate. Hope you and your lady had a chance to see Bruges together.

I visited Charleroi during one of my formerly annual trips to Belgium back in 2019. Coming from a post-industrial city in Scotland, some areas very looked familiar to me, but the people were very down to earth.

This looks like a Bald Approved City

Great video Ben!!!! 2 thumbs up my friend!!!!

Ben, I know Cat will be heading back to Portugal for the holidays, as well as returning to work, but I'm pleased that she is still with you in Belgium. I know that Charleroi is a hideous city, but you can at least eat some delicious Belgium food. The people are also quite nice. As for where I live in New Jersey we have a city named Camden that has been a total shithole for over 60 years, and across the Delaware river in North Philadelphia. There is a street in North Philadelphia called Kensington St. and it is the epitome of the term shithole. Junkies shoot up on drugs around the clock on the sidewalks. The junkies stand around doubled over from using a variety of drugs (fentanyl-heroin-horse tranquillisers etc). they truly are the walking dead, and the city doesn't do a bloody thing about it.

Your videos have been amazing lately! Well done always awesome travels :)

Honestly, I think there's a kind of brutalist beauty to be found in a place like this. It's not a traditionally pretty city, but I can see the charm for those, who live there. That market and the grafitti was acually quite nice.

Good afternoon Ben.Stay safe on yr journey. 😊

Love the way you say goodbye to kat with a quick see you later but in reality you call her after and say ‘ I love you and miss you ‘ we are all human Ben ❤️

Belgium has many of the most beautiful historical cities in the world like Bruges, Ghent and Antwerp. All located in Flanders. But you filmed in a deserted gloomy industrial area in the Southern part. This could have been anywhere in the world.

Ben mate, I really think you should've visited Portugal when Cat went home. She maybe could have shown you some sites and would have been a nice ending to the series with the lovely lady.

Fantastic, I love running round places like this

It's mainly an industrial city, but I certainly wouldn't say it's the ugliest city in the world. All industrial areas are ugly, but Charleroi has some nice parts like Hotel de Ville, Place Verte & there are some art nouveau buildings. Also it seems clean. I can name some much worse cities off the top of my head - Karachi, Amman, Mogadishu, Delhi.

What's French for "Sorry I was a bit bored so I dismantled my Corby Trouser Press, I can’t put it back together again. Will that show up on my bill?”

Basingstoke, Ben, you had Basingstoke and Sheffield (Page Hall) as the UK's most depressing places. But as you said, Luton's really rough, too!

Gary, Indiana, USA. And a lot of Northwestern Indiana.

Ben after hanging up with Cat: “I wish Cat was here 😢”.

Dude, you really need to come to New Jersey, Charleroi loos like Disneyland compared to some places over here!

Honestly, I felt kinda sad Katerina has left. Great her flight got cancelled and She's still in the blog 👏👌.Regarding the place, the infrastructures are great just that being abandoned it has been unmaintained so it"s begining to rot.

Seriously planning a trip to Charleroi....great content!

Keep it up bro I like your humble attitude

First visit to Paris! Hope you checked the hotel for bed buds. Enjoy your stay.

Hi Ben, i'm always in stiches when you say "shithole" 😂, however I suppose ugly is relative in this case. I'm from Johannesburg in South Africa and our "shitholes" could be 3 times worse than this city. With a coat of paint on some of those buildings and a general clean up of the rubbish laying around, it could be a neat city in no time! Anyway peace and happiness mate ✌

I remember a few years ago when Wales were playing Albania. Some reporters were chatting to the Welsh fans as they arrived in Tirana. Best line, "We took off from Cardiff and landed in Port Talbot".

Ayo that very last clip in the hotel looked more sad than the country my guy ! hopefully you get your travel buddy back soon, I think all of us are going to miss her humour !

There are cities like this in the UK, old mining towns abandoned and looking seemingly like Charolaise. Empty homes and run down industrial areas.

What makes it even more shocking is that Belgium is one of richest countries on earth

More of Kat please! We all love her and I know I’m not the only one shipping for you both :P

I’m so sorry that Kat missed her flight ✈️ 😢. But I think that’s what you planned because you just couldn’t let her go 😮. Thank you for sharing this ugly place. Blessings,Carlos ✝️🙏❤️😊🇺🇸

Wow ! really surprised to see this in Belgium, never would have guessed it. Next level desolation in what apparently was once a thriving industrial town . p.s. Bit surprised at the length of the bus journey but judging from the architecture I'd say you're now in Paris .

13:46 To me that indoor market reminds me of how resilient people really are. Perfect.

Ben, I don't know what things are like away from the camera, but judging from the end of the video after you hung up, you need to put a ring on that.

Definitely not the world’s ugliest… it even had a decent looking high street! There’s plenty of places here in the UK that are far uglier

America has plenty of destroyed infrastructure in many cities. Places such as Detroit Michigan, Gary Indiana, St.Louis Missouri, Kansas City Missouri, Seattle Washington, Portland Oregon and San Francisco California there are places which look like they are third world country and then a couple miles away is some of the nicest communities on earth. Check them out Ben

Aw Ben, you looked so lonely sat in the last hotel room atthe end of this vid and after Catarina went home, was expecting you to get down on one knee with a ring and a big question for her 😁

Pronunciation on point as always 👍

Seems awesome, definitely going to visit someday!

the look on bens face right at the end like "what the fuck have I done" 🤣

The world's most dangerous city Ben , is Port Morseby Papua New Guinea , i used to live and work there , never again .............

I love Cat She is always smiling. Great video..

This looks a lot like parts of Chicago where there are abandoned industrial facilities. Also the north section of St. Louis is really bad. I think you have found the European version of a "Rust Belt".

I have visited Bruges,Ghent and Brussels which were lovely cities. I am really surprised that Belgium has this reputation for one of their cities.

Better call Bald. He just finished a chapter, too. Some new Bald and Ben videos, but with you taking the lead would be super. Bald is technically retired anyway, so he should just relax and let you drag him around the planet for a while. ;)

and for a little while...i smiled again. she's back!

I was in New Orleans Louisiana for a couple weeks back in 2010. That city was an absolute shithole. Utterly disgusting anywhere off the 'tourist' streets. It was nasty.

6:35 lmao the way Ben says this made me laugh hard haha

Cat is "hard core" and "Cute as Hell" , a outstanding combination.

Cat Misses flight goes straight to HELL! 😅. BUT, nice to see you in another vid Cat. Safe travels to you both!

I’ll miss Cat. Safe travels Ben.

New drinking game: Every time Ben says 'World's ugliest city' take a shot Update: 1:37 in and I'm absolutely smaifijrrjjlajfjkk

Ben please do a Poll on your next video. Solo Ben or travels with Katarina.... i think we enjoy here joining in and getting so comfortable in front of the camera.

Looked a bit sad there at the end my friend.😢

I'd miss Kat, she's lovely and fascinating, but I think Ben will really really miss her, that last shot in the video says it all.

In Paris without your lover! Sounds like bad planning!

As soon as I saw the title I knew where you were going. I was planning on taking a tour around there soon - glad you’ve given me a good insight to what I’m in for 🙂

As an American, I would say the ugliest cities are parts of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Camden NJ, Gary Indiana, Detroit. You can also drive for hundreds of miles in the Rust Belt and middle America and find endless depressing scenes.

Glad to hear that you are going to be visiting the States next year. Hopefully you'll have some local viewers with you to help navigate. One wrong turn and you'll be in a dangerous area. Are you planning on visiting us in Canada too?

If i didn't know any better at those abandoned buildings i could've thought you guys were in Chernobyl😂 great vid again though man! Maybe one day you should visit my city Nijmegen in the Netherlands, beautiful and oldest city in the country😁

Chatham down here in Kent is pretty rough, but this place makes Chatham look like Barcelona!

This is why Belgium techno was so good in the early 90s, all good stuff comes from these types of places

I think, universally, between us Americans, Detroit is considered the worst.

What a surprise to have Cat around for another adventure. She is so much fun to have around.🥰😍

Ben looks so sad in the end. Thats what happens when you dont get a toilet in your hotel room.

The place where the cafe etc are definitely had a Walking Dead Sanctuary vibe to it.

An absndoned factory isn’t really part of a city..unless the former business owners got away with leaving the area as a toxic waste dump so that fity can now build homes and playgrounds x like virtually every port city in the USA “superfund sites”.

Ben can we just stop saying Kat just happens to be here, and "this is my bed, and there's Kats bed!" You two are a couple, and I think it's awesome!

Ben, thank you for visiting my country Timor leste, i am in north england

Lovely to see you can Catalina

The worst one I have been it's called Dolhasca in Suceava County in NE Romania. Depresive as hell

Who needs Paris. Just do like Ben and take the missus to Charleroi for a bit of romance for last 24hs together haha

YAY shes still here! Awe shes gone.... I love the forlorn blank stare into nothingness at the end

Hi Ben, New York, Baltimore, Philadelphia and some of San Francisco & some of Los Angeles are BAD, Las Vegas is really pretty nice! I’m in Minnesota lived in Las Vegas for 16 years.

As Bald and Bankrupt once said while traveling through the capital of Moldova, "This isn't Europe, surely to God!"

Kat is such a cutie! I’d suggest proposing then buying a camper van to travel the world in together as you make a bunch of little Benjis and Katarinas

Great! I'm glad Cat's still there. Richard in Reno

One of my favourites on KZfaq 👍

Industrial archeology is fun! But to be fair, Charleroi city centre is no worse than many similar places across Central Europe, the UK, North America - and I suppose the entire world. I would say it's a place with, well, potential.

What a dramatic ending ❤

Seeing that city in Belgium surprised me, but I’m all for that abandoned factory market. Urban decay whilst shopping 🤷‍♂️👍

The ugliest city I've ever seen in the United States is Cairo, Illinois. Once a thriving river town on the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, it's now largely abandoned. Driving along the main road, you see block after block of empty crumbling houses and boarded up storefronts. There's not enough money to tear these buildings down, let alone rebuild.

This is what happens when major employers are allowed to shutdown devastating peoples livelihoods in the area the uk has loads of examples of this

This is more like an abandoned steel plant/yard and not a city.

Looks clearer than most cities...and every country has a rust belt...

Ben i think you moved from the ugliest to the most expensive city... But as always, I appreciate immensely your endurance and effort to show us places we might have never known of their existence.

I wouldn't trust a sketchy guy guiding me to some ruins. There is no way I would follow him, so thank you for your sacrifice 😄