Would You Brave This RUSSIAN HOOD IN RIGA? 🇱🇻 ft

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I met up with ‪@J.E.E‬ in Riga Latvia, where he gave me the full tour of the city he calls home through his eyes. We chat and discover the epic and grandiose Art Nouveau district before we jump on the no 15 trolley bus and explore the 'other side' of Riga. Maskavas district, which is notorious as having a less than salubrious history, particularly in the 80's and 90's. This area was home to the Jewish ghetto, and in typical Justin style we approach the locals to find out more about the area.
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@placemats1598 2 жыл бұрын

Are you the NEW Bald and Bankrupt?

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

Even more genuine because not only am I bald but I am also actually bankrupt, unlike the original

@placemats1598 2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@clives344 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Wendall for the video. Loved the architecture around the centre remind me of some city centre in France and border towns such as Basel. The visit to the run down area was interesting especially the house with a wing mirror, thought that was the best. If it works why not!! May the Cornish weather remain with you from time to time!

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching my travels Clive 🙏

@britishmick 2 жыл бұрын

Great Upload yet again, Respect to you travelling to the real parts as opposed to the touristic areas

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Mick 🙏

@britishmick 2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores my pleasure bud

@TravellingTorunn 2 жыл бұрын

I have never been to Riga, and this was very interesting. And how great that you have friends there to show the special things in the city. Thank you for doing this, and for sharing. PS And it looked a bit like you were on a trolley bus in Bergen, Norway 😃We also have those.

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching the Baltic vlogs Torunn, I can’t believe the places I’ve been to and the people I’ve met on this KZfaq journey ☺️

@TravellingTorunn 2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores sometimes one just has to explore and say yes please and thank you. People are mostly lovley and great to interact with 🙂

@aviationollie-c 2 жыл бұрын

Great video the building look so much different compared to the centre of Riga

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

It was a sketchy yet beautiful hood!

@aviationollie-c 2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores it looked amazing in the centre of Riga and when you went on the edge of the city it was completely different whilst in the uk it normally more sketchy in the center of the citys

@10Hussy 2 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed your European visit to Latvia 🇱🇻 loved it and made me laugh about the car and the journey. Google map the hill of many many crosses 😂 it’s an actual place. I’ve been to Estonian pre eu … a good laugh 😂 keep it funny 👍

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching the travels, it seems not many of the regular viewers do by the numbers! Appreciate it 🙏

@10Hussy 2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores nothing better than spontaneity-we’ve got a lot a catching up to do 🌎 I was in the Isle of Skye the other week climbing the man of Storr… unplanned and brilliant 🤩 back in Cornwall end of august eek! High season 🫣looking forward to your next adventure 😆

@MarksWorldOfAdventure Жыл бұрын

Very interesting tour. Nice one, guys

@WendallExplores Жыл бұрын

God we were hungover that day 🫣

@MarksWorldOfAdventure Жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores is Riga expensive for drinks or not so?

@WendallExplores Жыл бұрын

@@MarksWorldOfAdventure I can’t remember it being CHEAP, defo more expensive than Poland

@britishmick 2 жыл бұрын

Hi olli, the wife and I are finally booked to visit the beautiful Cornish town of Perranporth in july next year, till then ill keep rewatching your vids on repeat, ps, as a fellow content creator can i say well done on branching out, Both my wife and i really find these interesting and informative. Just thought id share that with you, we adore cornwall and havent been able to visit for ages 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for lovely comment. Diversifying is a tricky and often fruitless endeavour on YT, it is a platform that very much rewards continuous repetition. It’s a struggle trying to equally offer myself as a travel and Cornwall vlogger, so I really appreciate your comment on this vid. If you DM me on insta, I can always chat more 👍

@britishmick 2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores Not on insta buddy but if its ok to email you on your business email id be more than happy to do so, with regards to diversifying, though creating completely different content I too take issue with the YT algorithm also (i could chew your ear for ages), ive gone from 5000 views on shorts to 200 etc etc... but i wont go in to that here. this video deserves higher viewership end of, its brill, better than a few travel vlogs with higher viewership, but either way keep doing what you are doing, hope the mrs and the dogs are ok 😜👍

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

@@britishmick yeah let’s chat via email. I am on FB too, rarely use it, but can.

@britishmick 2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores ill email ya soon, not on facebook either, though can reactivate my account (got sick of seeing ppls dinners and hearing about noras house being burgled 😂😂) chat soon, im gmail too

@vyrvalsya 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for revealing another aspect of my hometown, which I truly appreciate! My best and worst memories relate to this area! There's so much more to discover in those streets, particularly when exploring by tram line. I was impressed by how you journeyed from the trolleybus to the tram line. I can confidently say that area in Maskavas iela (Maskachka or “Moskovsky forshtat”) is one of the more perilous places. I grew up just a stop away, but at the tram stop you visited, I was once threatened by a gun-wielding drug addict as a child. The building before that, with its reinforced windows, housed a public sauna. In the 90s, we often visited it every Saturday, as many apartments lacked showers. Although I've been living in the UK for the past 14 years, I still make it a point to visit Riga a couple of times each year.

@Nomad-vh1fj 10 ай бұрын

I used to live at Moskachka 20 years ago ,In present times it's almost nice quiet place,20 years ago it was bit rougher and every second guy had some kind of shotgun 😂 I think some of local residents still have them .

@archwayenglish494 2 жыл бұрын

I am an American that lives in that shady neighborhood and your guide is exaggerating. A lot of young people are trying to bring the area back. He is describing the are in the 90"s when all of Riga was wild. When Justin said he was trying to find the Jewish ghetto, your guide should have told you, that you were in the middle of it. If you would have gone to the corner of Lazdonas iela and Daugavpils iela you would have seen a map of the Jewish ghetto on the side of the building (Trolleybus 15 - stope Daugapiles ilea). You will see old run-down buildings in most areas of Riga if you leave the center and the rich neighborhood. The concentration camp he referred to is Rumbula Forest Memorial Maskavas iela 471, Latgales priekšpilsēta, Rīga, LV-1063, it is not in Salaspils.

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

I can only say what I see, and there were some shady characters in the area and very run down buildings. Also, we were 100% stalked by that car many times, not a very encouraging welcome. I’ve travelled many parts of America, a country I very much love, but from experience I can understand why an American would not be too stressed by this neighbourhood. In my experience, urban USA has some of the scariest areas I’ve ever visited in my life.

@archwayenglish494 2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores I am from the Midwest and the suburbs. I had to get used to the ideal that graffiti is normal in many places of Europe. That the outside of the building isn't very important. Complete change from my neighborhood where everyone kept their yard and outside of there house perfect. Are there some shady people here? Yes, but there are in many areas of Riga is all I am saying. My boyfriend and I were pushed around by a drug dealer in the nice area of Riga you visited and damn he was sharp dressed in clothes I could never afford. I just wish people would really see all area of Riga by foot and but that would take to long. There are a lot of good families 👪 in this area.

@J.E.E 2 жыл бұрын

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaspils_camp

@user-ek5pp2wy3g 9 ай бұрын

@@archwayenglish494 This is part of Russia. And this is Russian architecture. (The city is translated as Granary for Grain) Who made it? Citizens of the Russian Empire and the USSR. It was occupied by the EU and Britain. What's the joke? They completely reduced the population of the region. THERE IS EMPTY. Yes, first they gave me the Dream! (Carrot, fishing rod, donkey) A British man walks around his property (Condominium). Only the management is so bad that everywhere there are homeless people - drug addicts - unemployed. Maybe it's Karma. Maybe something else. But such is the management that ruins remain everywhere. This is an interesting thing, where YOURS (Reptilians) sit, there is Graffiti \ drugs \ red lights \ beggars everywhere. The funny thing is that you always talk to your people. Especially the British. I went to explore the New World on the outskirts of the British Empire. Hehe. And I saw the same thing. Ruins, homeless people, horrors. Stencil.

@RobNorthampton 2 жыл бұрын

Maybe your fame preceded you and the gangsters in the car were arguing whether it was Wendall from KZfaq or not, so had to keep coming back for another look to make sure! 😀

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

More likely scenario, a nobody idiot Brit on tour was a few bad turns from getting knee capped by Latvian gangsters

@TrevsTravelTales 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Guys, Now I do not need to do a Tour, Just in Time, thinking to go to Eastern Europe next Year. Cross Riga off the List. Seen all I need.😎

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

I’m sure there is much more to see Trev 🤣

@xfoolsgoldx 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

Yamas Baz

@twisted_void 6 ай бұрын

Dude, you’re about 20 years late to see that part being dodgy. These days it is just a poor and neglected part of Riga.

@shaungorham7959 Жыл бұрын

it's over.

@stariyczedun 2 жыл бұрын

Did you visit Bolderāja? If not, you have seen nothing my friend 😉

@WendallExplores 2 жыл бұрын

Just googled it, looks like a fantastic beach to me 🤣

@stariyczedun 2 жыл бұрын

@@WendallExplores check out gvatar kebab there - the kebab is one of the best in town but the surroundings... Well, yeah. It reminds me of shitty corners of Astrakhan in Russia.

@user-ek5pp2wy3g 9 ай бұрын

This is part of Russia. And this is Russian architecture. (The city is translated as Granary for Grain) Who made it? Citizens of the Russian Empire and the USSR. It was occupied by the EU and Britain. What's the joke? They completely reduced the population of the region. THERE IS EMPTY. Yes, first they gave me the Dream! (Carrot, fishing rod, donkey) A British man walks around his property (Condominium). Only the management is so bad that everywhere there are homeless people - drug addicts - unemployed. Maybe it's Karma. Maybe something else. But such is the management that ruins remain everywhere.