This channel is great, you do things on a budget. I don't want a video seeing people fly emirates first class, i want to see things i can actually afford. Tell it like it is

Oh man I love these random wee adventures! Really enjoyed it, although sometimes I'm glad to let you do all the hard work and I'll just sit back and enjoy it :) Great work Scott!

I remember when I first came across moules frites, a local showed me a way of eating them. He said to use a fork to eat the first mussel and then use the now empty shell as tweezers to extract the mussels from the subsequent shells. That way you only ever need to put one shell to your mouth, with the bit you want to eat presented as if on a fork.

Love your channel, very engaging! Hey folks - hit that Like button for Scott!

Despite the constructions sites, you managed to find some little gems there in Charleroi - the waffle van (of course) the art deco area was superb, I could have spent ages there looking at all the architecture, that little moules café with the huge fishing murals was great too, and the beautiful church interior. I am watching this in 2024, so your chocolate is not out of date!

I was in Charleroi a few weeks ago and the construction in front of the train station was very much still there. If you ever fly to Charleroi (or indeed Brussels) again, take the train to Dinant. It's absolutely stunning. One of the most beautiful little towns I've ever seen.

Thanks for another interesting and enjoyable video. You have inspired me to start travelling again, having been widowed 2 years ago. Cheers. Vivian

what a fascinating place, and how fantastic that all of the houses in Belgium are different.

The Tim Traveller done a video at Charleroi about the railway that was built but never opened so it would be good to go there and see what remains, ps, I love waffles

About ten years or more ago I did a half day trip to Charleroi. The 11:45 Ryanair flight from Manchester to Charleroi (£5) then the bus into Charleroi Sud where I caught a lovely double deck train into Bruxelles Midi (Free, incuded in Eurostar ticket). In Bruxelles I had enough time for a bite to eat and at least 5 beers,. Next was my first trip on a Eurostar, just a couple of hours back to St Pancras (about £35). A walk down the road to Euston for my cheap advanced single back to Manchester arriving around 22:15. Not a bad afternoon out :-))

Thank you for not just talking about the ugly side of Charleroi but also the more interesting side.(Erik from Belgium)De Lijn is Flemish and TEC Wallonie.Long ago their was a huge fire in Brussels and Manneken Pis pissed on it and stopped the fire :)Grab a empty mussel and use it to eat the others

As a Flemish Belgian (Dutch speaking side) I love moules frites, or as we call it, Friet met mosselen!

Flew there myself loads of times from Manchester for £5 at times. We used to get the bus and coach outside the airport to Luxembourg

This has now become one of my favourite channels, and I watch ALOT of KZfaq! Love these Ryanair videos. 👍

You never cease to amaze me Squire. Bravo.

One of the first to watch. Great channel. Keep it up.

I was curious about Charleoi! Great video.

Always worth waching---thank you.

Like your videos reminds me of my young days' youth hosteling it was always a struggle to find the bus or train to take me anywhere, looking forward to more of your trips.👍

My favourite channel at the moment.

Great vid as always

Look forward to seeing the slag heap! I’m weirdly fascinated:-)

Nice one Scott 👍👍

I want to ride the metro as it has some really crazy track layouts and service patterns

Charleroi la ville de ma jeunesse la ville de tout mes excès que je pourrais jamais oublié, les années 70/ 80 et la moitié des années 90 après cela ça été la catastrophe mais j'y ai passé mes meilleurs années ❤❤❤.

Good watch Scott 👍

Excellent vlog of somewhere I have only seen on a few Belgium Films and Euro 2000.

Now subbed to your FB and IG accts. 👍 Love your explorations.

Went there during a school trip 40 years ago. All I remember is the slag heaps!

I thumbs upped for the slag heap next time and I have a very long memory. In case you doubt me - the Siemens Desiro Train Class 08 on the platform there was one of the last fulfilled of that order to Belgian Railways. Slag heap! I kid. Love your work mate. Keep it up!

The chocolate covered marzipan is lush

G'day Scott we really enjoyed this video. We thought you were going to spend 24 hours at the airport looking for the bus stop (lol). Look forward to your next video. Debbie & Patrick in New Zealand

Another brilliant video,the signs at Charleroi aren't very visible lol,but the tasks you had at hand you did.ive added you to my Facebook page to see live feeds on there.

The Cote D'Or you've had was probably produced in Mondelez, Jankowice plant. I doubt they're just packing it there :). Reminds me of the time I bought a bottle of Irish whiskey just to realise I could buy same brand at a better price back home 😅. Great episode, hope to see more, especially from Belgium.

Really enjoyed this, proper travel. One thing, when eating mussels, the experts use an empty shell as tweezers to extract the mussels. Looked delicious!

I like how the bus seat moquette's pattern shows with seats are for mothers and elderly.

epic!

Currently in Charleroi after booking a trip due to this video! To be fair, the area close to the station is fairly nice - it just needs some businesses to invest and it'll thrive!

Hey Scott! I love your style going to the bad ass part of Belgium!! Next time journey over to Aachen and try the local Printen, The chocolate and nut type is insane!! But only buy from bakers like Nobis. Just outside of Aachen is Vaals located in The NL and it’s the highest point of The NL and also three border point where you can stand in Germany, Belgium and The NL all at once. 🇩🇪🇧🇪🇳🇱🇪🇺

Wow that church was impressive. The strangest thing about Charleroi is the one way ring road

Fantastic. I actually quite like fillet oh fish..

If you want slag heaps and Shale gas plant visit Kiviõli, Also beautiful forests and country side.

I find it funny how you’ve done a video on Charleroi and that just happens to be where i am right now

Enjoy these sort of mini trips, would you consider doing a quick hotel review and give us prices?

Just one correction : the first church shown, Saint Antoine de Padoue, doesn’t date from 1930, but from 1830.

Great video

Scott, a great entertaining video again, thank you. But I just have to comment, I recently watched with interest your video about your visit to 3 Travelodge hotels was it Fort William some other and Glasgow? My wife and I stayed at the Glasgow airport Travelodge back in April 23, we were in a room almost directly opposite your room. I also remember an evening walk into Paisley half an hour or so away. As we got closer to the town centre we both remained speechless as we looked around, we were very pleased that we saw almost no one as we walked along a couple of main streets. Could Paisley also be described as 'she's not pretty - but she has character' or were we treading the wrong main street.

I used to use Charleroi airport to visit Luxembourg. It is OK, but prices in Lux are much lower due to the tax differences.

I spent a couple of days there in Charleroi in 2018 (as my favorite Football club RCSC is from there). I think your video sums it up pretty much hahaha. For youth travellers I can highly suggest the Nirvana, a bar downtown (dress up nicely tho, or they won’t let you in). And a fry stall. I’m from Canada

First it took me some time to wrap my tongue around the pronunciation. Charleroi is certainly past its days of glory but one hopes that Ryanair & co can bring some tourist traffic to this once industrial area . 24 hours in C'roi is a challenge which you gamely took up and we enjoyed 😉. More off the beaten track adventures as long as orange is hi-vis for a change 😀.

In Belgium all shops close at 6, sometimes 7 PM and Sunday they are mostly closed. Restaurants and bars remain open though.

Une Jupiler! xD Must have blown you away. Hint: You take the mussels from the shells with a fork. Much easier and cleaner.

Amazing how you make a boring place a little bit interesting......Worth going to just for the mussels and chips

This city is for those who can see beyond what the eye can see...

great insight WOW! £21

That chocolate looked delicious and perhaps a good place to start a longer travel adventure taking in different parts of Brussels?

Idk if you said it but actually Charleroi is the town of comics with Dupuis (Tintin, Spirou, Lagaffe, Marsupilami...)

You would think that an important bus like the one to the main city would be in a prominent location, well sign-posted, and not just some 4foot tall post with a bit of orange plastic on top...

21:09 LOL THAT GUY

My city!!! Ahaha why did you have the idea to come to Charleroi? 😀 but Côte d'or is not the same as before...

8.00 o clock on Saturday... That's not Charleroi, it's Belgium. 9.00am to 6.00pm Monday to Saturday . Everything closed on Sunday

Thank you for sharing this video! I thnk you have put people off visiting Charleroi!

I must say I'm a bit worried about those problems with the bus, because I'm going to Charleroi airport in August ...

Do a video on the metro aka tram aka whatever it isnt

Used to love Charleroi for the incredible rural vicinal tram network. Sadly what remains is a shadow of it's former self, now incorporated in the Charleroi Metro, which has been a badly planned fiasco, with even one line built, but never opened.

14:40 that's not really how you eat them xD Normally, you take one of the empty shells, and use that as a kind of pince :)

Every time he says Charleroi take a shot

Im from Detroit. Similiar Usa type city

I have an idea for a new timetable challenge , start on the isle of Skye take the ferry to mallaig then the train to Glasgow , then the train to Gretna green get off have lunch do some documentary stuff about Gretna , then take the train to Carlisle , then travel to settle along the famous line , then take bus from settle to Leeds , then take the train to York via Harrogate line stunning views , then take an East coast mainline train home to Glasgow , BE WARNED this requires a n early start , but the views and trip is worth it

You need to go BACK if you can find a cheap fare. Seems like a neat city!

It's a shame that the front of the railway station is again a construction site as the previous construction works had just finished and I quite liked the trees and the benches. Now they're going for a boring dehumanising wide open space. 🙄

i want to see the abandoned factories there

wait what? You expected something open close to a sunday in the wallon region?

I think I will have the mussels of the menu please.....lol

Never use the airport bus since it's a rip-off, walk to Ransart instead and buy the 60-minute ticket online, or if you want a day ticket walk to Jumet Madeleine, it's 1,10 hour to get there but worth it and if you try to walk fast then I'd say 50 minutes ish

A fun way to eat mussels is to take an empty shell and use that as a pincher to take the other mussels out of their shell.

Thanks for the video... but, as a Belgian... it was very weird to see how u eat Moules-Frites or in Dutch, Mosselen met friet.

I'm sure Cherleroi will be nice when it's finished.

Charleroi Airport well it looks amazing compared to so called Belfast International. Which is the absolute PITS of and airport. and they have the dam cheek to call it international. Even the Chinese laughed at it when they considered flights to there. May I ask what Visa/document did you require for your visit? Would most certainly appreciate your reply. Hope you enjoyed the short break.

My friend Colin, who lives in the Costa Del Sol, owns that Irish Times Pub and 2 others all called The Irish Times in Belgium (Antwerp and Hasselt)

Scott can. You. Do. Hamburg at. Some time.

Surrealistic, isn't it ? :) The problem is that when they turned the airfield into an airport, nobody in the country believed in this project, they thought it was just a waste of money. And then they were surprized by the enormous success of the airport (more than 8 million passengers a year). So, they never planned a decent public transport connexion. There's actually a tramway (premetro) line which passes very close to the airport, but they never cared to build a branch to the terminal... Anyway, Charleroi calls itself "metropole", but it's a ghost from the past. It does have a lot of potential however, with a premetro system (line 5 will soon open toward a new hospital), a large railway station, suburban railways, an airport... I hope one day they can stop whining about their misery and start evolving to meet their potential. The works in front of the railway station are finished, by the way.

on my list too! so cheap

Jupiler ain’t bad beer. Used to drink it in Lille, France….

you should have travelled a bit by tram, especially the ones that are driving on the road.

Out of interest, where did you get the bus ticket from ?

For a holiday cheaper at home, visit Charleroi. On the downside, you will wish you stayed at home!

chocolate really made in Belgium = "Jacques" or "Leonidas". "Côte d'or", like unfortunately many other products created in Belgium, is now produced by Mondelez and not as tasty as they used to be.

And here is everybody waiting for you to get on one of the last interregional non-tourist tramways left in Europe...

Charleroi even built a whole metro network but opened a minimum part of it

Visit Lille 🇫🇷

Jupiler is the Tennent's of Belgium.

Instead of looking for an orange bus stop ya shoulda just looked for a good Catholic one...HEHE...I enjoyed the video..Thank you

You should have tried Charleroi's anarchic tramway / Rapid Transit system, which can't even decide whether the trams run on the left or right hand side! I thought that most people spoke English in Belgium - a common language for Walloon and Flemish speakers to communicate in!

I'm making that trip next month. How many minutes does it take to walk from the Ryanair arrivals terminal to the Ibis Budget hotel?

Good place to go and practice some French on a budget without going to France 👍

One of the worst places to live in Belgium, apparently. And of all the great beers we brew over here, you had to go and drink the worst chemical junk ever : Jupiler ! I'm seriously questioning your taste, mister !

0:09 DON TOLIVER: NO IDEA

Im sure Hornby could run the metro lol.

Doesn't Charleroi have a quirky tram / metro system