outside of 4 cities, russia is a swampy backwater bog

I've got no interest at all to visit russia EVER

I actually agree with you, i really hope things will get settled and world will become safe again and i will able to see my friends again. I really miss my friends and it's been over 5 years since i saw them. I really hope that one day will see them again and play poker with them or do something interesting in city.

@@9nxtTo be fair that describes most if not all countries lol

@@9nxt Ever been to Canada?Just asking..

Какой глупый анекдот.

Ha! That's a great story.

@@evgeniyglebov Except it wasn't a joke. It is amusing that Russians would do such a thing though, and even more amusing that apparently they can't take jokes!

What a delightful train journey! Clearly, you enjoyed yourself on this excursion. Thanks for sharing. 💙

Hahaha ooops 🤭

Yeah? What does it say?

@@russoksk that Russian love trains

@@Babumoshai.. So do I a Canadian who loves Russia too!

@@frederickmoller Letting down your country if you love Russia at a time like this... Unless of course you mean the region rather than the country, in which case, more power to you!

@@ElusiveTy You have to separate love for country with love for it's leadership mate.

Never mind the train having to go anywhere ,I would like to LIVE in it!

Salmon and caviar are the standard filling for Russian pancakes (although you can also eat pancakes with sweet fillings). But Noel ate caviar completely incorrectly, so the "strong taste" of caviar scared him!

Same in Britain! Salmon with scrambled eggs on toast is my go-to Xmas morning brekkie

I was born in Russia, my wife in a completely unusual place (for a Central European). Our life was quite unusual, we traveled a lot even during our childhood and without having anything to do with the Party. Such things were rare, but did exist. For me all these things (caviar, salmon) were part of the diet - and EVERYDAY diet! Not a typical thing for an average Soviet citizen: I was living near aerospace research institute (TSAGI) and there was a special food quota in our area even when other areas of USSR had severe food shortage. However, I used to eat caviar with bread, preferably black bread - and pancakes with fruit jam as a desert. All of this 100% perfect for breakfast. We also used to live on the West Coast, not far from SF. We had salmon quite often, see the selection at Trader's Joe.

He messed up cause you cant eat cavier with metal. It makes the metal melt and gets in the food.

Thé noise as the lone smoked salmon went into the hatch nearly made me vom. I don’t know how you could eat that without carbs. The texture is horrific

Haha yeah that was painful to watch lol...

I wouldn't touch caviar with a ten foot trout.

@@HansDelbruck53 People who like it probably eat sperm whales.

Red caviar is inexpensive, you can eat it with a spoon.))

So nice of you

Yes i can imagine there’s so something magical about waking up early dawn on a sleeper train, especially when you’ve past continents and time zones etc.

yes, i was waiting to see if someone would tell him to do that

Aren't you supposed to eat pickles and drink vodka with them as well?

Eating caviar with a fork, priceless!

Как с языка сняла. Икра с блинами, ну как не понять то?

they are called 'blinis'.

Can I hang out with you? You sound as if you know how to live well! Cheers

@@PJL7095 Только если вы говорите по-русски. 😉

@@chaosdemonwolf1 yea sorry mate. I don’t speak russian

@@PJL7095 No worries guv. I studied in Russia for a couple of years in the mid 2000's. And what I typed was ''Only if you speak Russian. 🤪

@@chaosdemonwolf1 seriously. That’s sorta funny b/c I said ‘I don’t speak Russian’ but would love to go there to learn

kgot to love free bed bugs and fleas. 🤣🤣 In the UK $200 will get you a few stations up the the line. 👍👍 And probably take just as long to travel 200 miles.

Hahaha 😂

They also make an average of about $100/week in Russia to put in perspective.

We always welcome our guests. You can fly to Russia with one transfer in Serbia, Turkey, Armenia or in the Middle East. You can also get to Russia via Belarus, Finland, the Baltic States by bus. Of course, it's more expensive and longer than before, but that's life. And you can check that nothing has changed in Russia: shops are full of products, restaurants, museums, hotels, transport are working normally. The police do not catch everyone, everything is completely safe).

​@@EvgenPashkin 👋👋😄, thank you so much for reminding many people around the world, that beautiful Russia is a great place to travel and enjoy. Your country seems to be one of the sanest spots on earth to be right now. Best wishes and greetings to you from Oceania 🤠🦘🥃

@@dietmarwolf79 "Sane"?.. you mean it's sane to invade a peaceful country and kill women and children for no reason!! Disgusting comment.

@@dietmarwolf79 Russia is an increasingly totalitarian, fascist state currently brutalizing its neighbour on the backdrop of genocidal rhetoric.

@@EvgenPashkin "Nothing has changed". Yes it has. You have turned into a outright fascist state.

middle daughter? sounds funny

@@mrp5764 LMAO!

ESL

В Питере баночка красной икры в "Пятёрочке" 70 Руб была, та самая что в MixMarkt (Германия) как минимум 15 Евро. Но молодец Ноель, был и в Вологде. Правда, там по неопытности пошёл в Дикси и купил пиво с чипсами. А в отеле на стене меню: охотничий салат, селёдка в шубе, солянка - всё за Евро (80 Руб) или меньше. Написано было правда только на одном языке. Но всё равно, молодец.

@@well-hiddenme5846 Всё правильно: в Вологде пьёт пиво с чипсами, в Красной Стреле - водка с икрой. Прогресс. All right: in Vologda he drinks beer with chips, in the Red Arrow he drinks vodka with caviar. Progress.

обидно за него: такой классный завтрак не прочувствовал((

Wasn’t the Harwich-Hoek ferry video like that?

@@erik_griswold not sure! think I’ll need to go back and watch that one!

🤣 I was thinking the same!

That’s some good Russian vodka 😂

@@emu168 I think this dose will send him into a deep knockout! We'll lose him for at least a couple of days!

Yes, at their prices, they should learn how to cut costs and assist passengers and crew families to enjoy the Aussie life.

@@henrysehgal658 Yes. Extremely expensive for the service provided. We've never had the time to do either, but The Wife's relatives took The Ghan one way (of course), and were less than overwhelmed by the train, amenities, and standard of service. Their comment was that the TGV services offered better everything, for a far more reasonable price.

@@phils4634 I've yet to take a train outside Western Europe, Canada or contiguous US but hope to one day travel outside Canada (my country of residence, citizenship and birth) again. Maybe one of those countries will be Russia but given what is going on over there likely only after Putin's presidency has ended.

Agreed, the Russian national anthem is a great piece of music along with the French national anthem to get the patriotic juices going.:)

He must've been watching Bald and Bankrupt

It' s not a national anthem. It's a St.Petersburg anthem by composer R. Gliyer.

@@yuliawexler В начале ролика всё же действительно звучит гимн России.

@@yuliawexler Там на самом деле звучит Гимн России, сестрюнь. При отправке. Гимн города - вроде ток при отправке Сапсана, или "Невского Экспресса".

Maybe for Western tourists its truly "insanely cheap ", but for Russian average citizen it's insanely expensive for just one riding from Moscow to Petersburg

It is considering a ticket i brought from Bournemouth to birmingham one way last week cost me 120 pound standard class. First class was 268 pound one way. Robbing sods. I could of hired a car and drove back cheaper in my own comfort, and then not have to pay 26 quid to get a taxi home from Birmingham New st station. So cost me 146 pound to get home where as a euro car i could of hired a fiat 500 for 30 for day, and probably got back in that little car on about 30 pounds worth of petrol had i watched my fuel consumption and stuck to 65/70mph. Grrrr

For me, Italian, it's still quite expensive. This trains costs the double of a deluxe accomodation between Milan and Palermo (the longest route on Italian railway network) 1000 kilometers apart

​@@user-be3xx5kt4r 700 средняя ) не вводите людей в заблуждение ) у нас в Сибири значительно больше ) у меня зарплата инженера в Сибири 1.300 долларов ) но прожить месяц в Сибири дешевле в 3 раза чем в Европе ) я жил в Чехии и Италии ) и то что в России жить дешевле начинается с утра когда покупаешь в Италии пачку сигарет 😂

@@user-dq5hw4bp3u Не забывай - что твоя ЗП компенсируется идиотскими наценками на продукты, уж без обид. Твои Сибирские ЗП - хороши ток вахтерам может быть, мол накопить деньжат у вас - и снова в Питер жить. Ну учитывая цены на хавку - не-е-е-е, спасибо, я уж лучше в Питере поживу. Хотя ЗП интригует и вправду - как и надбавки к ней.

Here we consider that it’s quite expensive :)

Agreed! I was expecting at least another zero on that price. You can't ride Amtrak overnight in coach for that kind of money!

@@user-mw5fv8oc2k , а укр. зализныця лучшая в Мире!!!

@@user-mw5fv8oc2k Ukraine is not a failed state that Africa would reject. Ukraine is the greatest territory(is not much of a united political country) in the galaxy!

Russian paid troll or useful idiot?

@@karlpron Stop being foolish. Whenever, people say good things about Russia, someone in the UK or US would call them Russian trolls or useful idiots. I can't be part of that foolishness. If you watch BBC news or documentaries about Russia, you never see anything positive; it's always all doom and gloom. In the run up to the 2018 football World Cup, we were shown dangerous documentaries about Russia. But it turned out that the 2018 World Cup was one of the best in the history of FIFA. So may be everyone who went to watch the 2018 World Cup in Russia would be Russian trolls today.

@@user-mw5fv8oc2k in the Universe! 🤪

If you bought those in the states then you will be put on a FBI list. 😂 democratic regime must keep eyes on what you read.

The Manifesto of the Communist Party?)

Thank God it wasn't that DISGUSTING Viz magazine! Anyone who reads THAT ought to BE arrested! I simply don't know WHAT draws me back to buying it again, and again!

Putin didn’t get angry. He stopped the CIA from continuing their bioweapon labs and NATO from setting up bases on his border. This is US’s proxy war.

I'e like to see their collaboration with agents Petrov and Boshirov in Salisbury

Bald and Bankrupt vs. Bald and Brimming

@@souldoubt834 ahahaha!

Thank you! I was debating whether or not to destroy some of the magic Noel built about the rather bland, but well-marketed hotel. Now you did it first and that's good... Note: for the sake of political correctness they now expect us to say "Roma" or "Romani" instead of "gypsy" - the word you and I use without any negative context... Thank you!!!

Sonia Timofeevna probably performed there. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/opNon7aZv66XiH0.html

@@Chronograph71 yes we in the U.K. not others who live in other countries that haven’t been wrecked by P.C

@@Chronograph71 Which is silly, because Roma/Romani implies that they have some connection to Italy/Rome, when they don’t. They are travelers, who got around. They don’t have a good reputation for good reason. Screw PC words. I even cringed that he traveled for fun when everywhere was forcing mask-wearing. I’d never support companies that forced that shit on me.

It’s a bargain compared to our train prices in the U.K that are insanely expensive. I recently brought a ticket from Bournemouth,];a station on the south coast to Birmingham in the midlands, 3 hour journey one way cost me 120 pounds about 150 dollars. Complete rip off!!

@@matty6848 Yeesh... that's a worse deal than even Amtrak here in the US, which is generally not known for having great prices.

The price has gone up a bit. Now it’s somewhere around $270. For Russians, of course, the amount is large, considering that you can fly from Moscow to St. Petersburg in 1.5 hours for $20 (without luggage)

Standard fairer for us on Xmas day. 😉

Same works for ferries ⛴

Ditto,planes, trains or automobiles...as long as you aren't driving.

😂😂😂👍

Next time you may try to eat pancakes with caviar - it's one of Russian traditional combinations

🤣🤣

Russians...

good times! 😁👍

You most likely invented this fairy tale, or perhaps it happened many years ago. But in 2000, it was probably possible :- ) Now none of the conductors will be able to sell their seats to passengers and, moreover, will not drink vodka with passengers. Otherwise, such a conductor will be removed from the train and dismissed. Even in the provinces, and even more so in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

@@Siberian_Bear72 he said it was 2000

@@kirilmihaylov1934 , да, я поправил текст. Не сразу обратил внимание на год поездки. Ещё в нулевых сам как-то сажал в поезд безбилетника в купе к проводникам. Сейчас, по-моему, в этом просто нет необходимости. Билеты есть всегда. Даже в разгар курортного сезона :-)

Ахахахаааа!

🤣🤣🤣

Загрустил в Майами!

Это точно.

А таксистом у него Порошенка подрабатывает? Похудел малость. :))

Typical of westerners. Always wanting to undermine anything and anyone non-western

He's a poor man's bald n bankrupt

This is one of 3 most luxurious REGULAR trains. Grand Imperial and Golden Eagle are touristic 😎

You should drink champagne not juice with caviar

@@AzuraeLyonheart You are a nouveaux riche thats why you don't want to see and accept when other's say their opinion.Just accept or not idiot!

there is no better accommodation of RZD as this one. That runs in several trains not only in the Red Arrow

Hello Sir, I have been to Russia 4 times and visited 16 cities so far! Just love your country so much and will be back again sometime next year. Red Arrow is definitely on my list!

"Мегаполис" - отличный поезд между Питером и Москвой!

Beautiful love 💕 it. Thank you 🙏 🇷🇺 amazing country ✨💫

Yeah, made me cringe. He had a nice choices of fish and some caviar, all of which goes so well with crepes… He ruined his breakfast himself.

Молодой ишшо... научится...

What's wrong with those pancakes?) Apart from that they look cold

@@alicek.4714 They’re not pancakes and they never were pancakes lol. They are tasteless crepes. They’re meant to be topped with things or stuffed similar to a small burrito.

@@groosha6 what is the difference between crepes and pancakes?

Why no hope ?

@@shamster1244 too many reasons to list lmao 🤣

Never say never. I hope to go to Russia some day.

@@WaiferThyme Okay, but what are the main ones?

Russia comes to you.

Но дедушка Байден может не разрешить.

Так ведь ДБ.

@@Shaingmanght 100%

Ты хочешь чтобы Моргена вставили?

@@Shaingmanght 😅

@@JohnDoe-jb6xq а другой альтернативы нет?

I mean, what do you expect from a country who is still going through the throes of once being communist.

@@firelord1125 and USA is BECOMING communist 🤡🌐👍 i would rather go to Russia then 👍

@@firelord1125 You should be learning Chinese for your future.

It's bloody expensive for a Russian/Many in Eastern Europe. But for a Westerner, I don't think it's that expensive

@@nottoday3817 *Amazing nonsense, the train is specifically made in order to wait until you arrive from your island when you finally begin to smarter in the West and you will have any kind of logical thinking?*

At that time it was perhaps the only train in the USSR with good service. The rest were simply terrible torture, especially in the summer in the 3rd grade (platzkart) where there is no air conditioning and many of the windows did not open. Now, of course, everything has changed. Service in Russia has surpassed many countries. People suffered so much with the service in the USSR that they decided to seriously fight it. But it was clearly not necessary to cut the country into 15 pieces for this.

​@@user-xn8kr6bd1el 40:48

День Железнодорожника отмечают не конкретно 1 августа, а первое воскресение августа. После Дня железнодорожника лично я начинаю есть арбузы и дыни, потому что они продаются уже без нитратов и прочей отравы.)))

@@bvb6552 я в этом году ел арбузы с начала июня и вообще не обломался

@@crokocat не, я ем арбузы только с начала августа. До этого они безвкусные, как трава.

And he has no excuses either. Noel- “I can’t make the bed” Rachel- “No you made a bed drunk on a train in Russia, you can do it here” lol

Yeah! Rach! (hic!) I made a (hic!) bed! Frickin' did it, yeah! Stalin taught me, (hic!) I did a thing, yeah! (hic!) 😋

Glad you enjoyed it!

He was at the same hotel the other day