This Country Was Ready For War! 🇦🇱
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- When I was growing up I became fascinated by the mysterious and little known country of Albania on the southern edge of Europe. A land which at that time few outsiders had visited due to the paranoid Stalinist leader Enver Hoxha. Well things have changed now and the borders are open so I decided to head there and to see where state paranoia can lead...
If you'd like to explore the bunkers of Albania like I did then I can recommend the place I rented a scooter from in Vlore from where I began the adventure. Search @motorentvlora on insta for their shop. They might even give you the same scooter I used. Imagine that, sitting on the same seat where my sweaty bum cheeks have been. Cheers
What about slovenia
visit bulgaria
I fucking knew you were gonna go to Albania, just so you know the bunkers aren't that old, our president was scared so he built a lot of them
1:52 and bankrupt
Great to see you back after your health issues. Take care and keep vlogging taking appropriate health measures.
More than 2 million subscribers and still no annoying intros, outros, sponsor ads and the like. Just pure genuine content.
THANK THE LORD
Reminds me of the good ol days of RUclips...
@@GardEngebretsen xaxaxaxaxa
DON'T JINX IT
@bittercottoncandy needs more star wipes though
I'm Albanian and I would have loved to guide you. I was raised up in Tirana but my parents are from Vlora. Basically all the people are saying that Enver Hoxha was bad and the times were poor af. The guy who offered you rakia said Maskara for him which means Bastard. If you hear PO on the video it means Yes. Shitet means is for sale bc everybody is looking to emigrate from that country. I myself emigrated 3 years ago in Germany where I'm currently living. I would have loved if you visited the Vlora beaches bc there are some Caribbean level beaches in there. The people are actually nice in there especially in the villages. They see the foreigners like Gods. At the family you visited the women is saying that she was 15 when Enver Hoxha died and she didn't have good feelings about him. The man is saying that the bunkers were build around 1970-80. You gave around 8 euros to the guy that trimmed your face hair which is the amount he makes in 2 days, I thank you very much for that. Normally you should have payed 80 cents I guess. He told you ''eshte vap'' which means is hot. I don't know where you heard that shuish loool but hot is 'vap'. The chilled old dudes at the park were saying that E.H worked only for himself not for the people, actually the people worked for him. Basically the whole Albania worked for enver hoxha. I missed so much my place. Haven't visited Albania in more than 1 year and I thank you very much for the tour. My hurt sunk when I heard my language on your channel. Big fan of you! everyone that has questions can ask me I'd be more than happy to answer ! and Goodbye in Albanian or SHQIP{the name of our language} is MIRUPAFSHIM
Nikolaos thank you so much for this commentary and best wishes to you and Albanian people who suffered so much.
God bless you bro!
Is the language difficult to learn? Btw you English is fantastic
Tnx Nicolas, gr8 vry history of Albania..Too many Bunkers.. So sure it leads to underground construction.. Is it? I sw Bunkers first time in my life on my vizt to Berlin last yr.. The old Constructed buildings hv Bunkers..
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this!
Imagine being an Albanian farmer and seeing a random Englishman standing on your bunker pointing a camera at himself
He doesn’t look so foreign for them. Many of my uncles look like Him.
Dont you ever change, Bald. Your conversations with the locals are beyond precious.
That family was so pure. So cool that the daughter translated as well. The world is truly a lot more beautiful than we think sometimes.
No doubt !
The world isnt beautiful you're seeing only what your eyes see. But you cant expierence whats within.
@@jasonvoorhees5518 Are you saying this family eats babies?
@@dog-ez2nu LMFAO!
Yeah there is far more love in the world than people realize. There are far more kind people that evil
This truly is one of the best, funnies and most wholesome and adventurous channel ever, thanks for the content!
@0 0 lol
Imagine being a farmer living out in the countryside, minding your own business and suddenly you see a strange looking bald foreigner with sunglasses just photoshooting your back garden.
A weird bunker obsessed bald man interrogating locals demanding to see bunkers
If you're used to people coming on to your land and building 15 concrete bunkers per every square mile, one bald man in tracksuits won't make you flinch. However if he refuses 6th shot of rakija, then that's another story.
@@MisterSolitude That will make some good stories for the people in the village.
that family was wonderful.
Life is complete
The Albanian family was so gracious.. love people like this👍
Bro I promise you where ever you go to Albania or Kosovo it's going to be like that, it's part of the culture
the inside of that house was actually nice, clean and moderately modern interior. Mans living the life with his turkeys and bunkers
Albania is a very clean country n their houses are immaculate even though they don't have much money..its a beautiful place n the people are the friendliest iv met in another country
I love you for reason. Make it to Oklahoma and we'll drink and have food for you. Native American style.
Not only that but their daughter was really beautiful!
Matt Peanut I dont know what that means but im always down for native american style my nigga
Yea they're not savages like you thought they were' :[) LoL 😆 '''''''''''''''
That family who invited you for a beer, we need more people like them in this world!
More albanians
Yes
why not say "i need to be like them" instead of waiting for others to be good be good yourself.
The dude was a bit hesitant because bald almost left there before he got invited there
you have 3 million plus in Albania alone :D
Riding through Albania on a scooter looking for bunkers. This guy's gonna take some memories to the grave
well if hes continuing hes going to end up there eventually, there are alot of unmarked mine fields in the balkans
@@TeXinat0r 😂
@@TeXinat0r that's one way to get a lambretta to break the speed limit
I’m astounded by how often he’s invited into strangers homes. I greatly envy this guy. Told my wife earlier I wanted to sell the house and all of our stuff and do what this guy is doing. She rolled her eyes at me,
Bro if you go to Albania or Kosovo you will allways be invited like that , it's bout the culture
21:10 - When the Albanian family invited the Bald, it was most beautiful moment in the video. It shows their purity and hospitality. I'd rather have a beer from such a family in a village than a feast in a restaurant.
The lucky ones...
This is very nice , Albanian people is very very nice ,from 🇭🇷
@@uzm9496 Hvala brate :)
How nice of them to invite you in for a beer! The world does have good people, it just takes good people to find them
Facts
That was pretty amazing...even the turkeys could not get enough of Bald
You’re also welcome my friend, greetings 🇦🇱🍻
"No map, no internet, no idea where I'm going" - haha class. Legend.
When he jumped that fence, i was sure he was gonna step on a landmine.
Scary possibility. Remnants of old wars. Those that were fought and those that weren't. Just like the bunkers.
yeah, thought about that aswell, isn't there mines in the mountains to this day?
that was my first thought! that was sketch
Talks to an albanian guy
bald: "gracias señor"
Albanian people speaks italian too, i think he told "grazie signore" but with wrong resulties
Maybe they know Italian better than English?
recurf yes because they watch italian television
@@recurf7492 He's saying random Spanish (not Italian) words all the time. I guess he thought Albanians would understand them nonetheless.
I caught that too... i was alittle perplexed
Bald: "Hm, what language should I speak to these people?"
Bald: "Gracias señor"
I was wondering why he was speaking Spanish
I was lol'ing when he said that hahaha
Albania language apparently has similarities with Latin
pahahahah
Spanish is spoken more in the world than English.
I am 65 years old and never have been out side of the US your video's are so interesting to see you meeting the people and giving us a bit of history. Hope you are getting back your health glad to see out again roaming the country side in Albania. Just watched a few of Harold's video's from Amsterdam. My friend just went back to Holland to be home with her mom who is 70 and dieing from cancer, very sad. But: it's kinda nice to watch Harold and learn a bit about the Netherlands. Wish you guy's the best and stay healthy...Still remember saving that kitten smuggling it back in your pants was nerve racking. Riding in the little lady's shirt ' lucky little fellow. You guy's were really fun to watch...Thanks for sharing some pretty fun times. Let us know how the kitten's doing. Take care Mr Bald
Harald
It's never too late to do something for the first time :) My grandparents have visited me from Norway to places like the great wall of China, South Korea, and the Philippines, when I lived in those places and they were in their 70's and 80's at the time. My grandpa suffered a stroke in 2000 and had mobility issues and was still able to make most of the trips. It's never too late to experience life, I hope you get to see another country for yourself some time.
let's not forget how he visitted old ladies living deep within the chernobyl exclusion zone and brought them food and drinks. This guy is awesome
If it’s scary doing it alone, PLEASE find a friend and go travel the world.
Get yourself a passport & a plane ticket Del. (once all the rona has gone of course) Never too late to start travelling, you'll realise much of the stuff you've learned about other countries & peoples was bs.
The people of Albania seem so nice and friendly. Loved that guy who was just walking around smiling! Would love to visit.
@The Black Rat Inn "the mind is a big , big thing" is an old illyrian saying , it isnt about psycos or whatever
@The Black Rat Inn its not insane you dumb but i think he can not talk(deaf)
@The Black Rat Inn It's possible, but also consider being that old, having lived through what he would have and then seeing this foreigner coming into his nowhere village to presumably tell people back home about what happened here and not invading like Hoxha claimed.
I love that Bald can make friends anywhere.
Including covid.
sure he’s an alien
Yeah he maxed his charisma stats and lost his hair
The family is trying to find a nice English lad for their daughter. 😉
Such a sweet friendly family!
I've been waiting for an Albania video! I'm an American who married into an Albanian family here in the US. I'm saving this to watch with my wife later tonight!
Hope u enjoy it than
Da Ba thanks nice guy
You think she may be able to translate and put up subtitles?
Michael O she translated for me while watching, there unfortunately wasn’t anything very interesting. She was just very amused at how everyone he encountered reminded her of her family members 😂
@Da Ba You seem happy with your life.
It’s so surprising and wholesome how many people welcome you into their homes to share food and drinks with. It’s my favorite part of your videos and makes me realize how most people in this world are good. Makes me want to travel to the remote places of the world like you do. Love your videos!
fully agree! very interesting to see, theres so much fear built in media today about the world that you almost manipulate yourself that everything outside of your own block is evil
Just don't be black!
@@adiabolik bahahaha i get the joke bro but someone might take it the wrong way
df7205 don’t think it was a joke lol, I don’t think a non-white would be as welcomed in Eastern Europe as Mr. Bald is.
Was in Abania last summer..... Definitely going back! Nice country and I have met only friendly people. Thank you Albania!
Imagine being one of the Albanians around and just hearing him go "Hoxha Hoxha Hoxha". They must think you mad.
Lmao
Yep we albanians hate hoxha.
Dictators aren’t great
It's like going to Cambodia and screaming Pol Pot every 5 minutes. It won't end well!
@@gobshite It's like going to Germany and screaming Hitler every 5 Minutes. You'd get jailed xD
I understand from reading your blog that you worry about quality of content. I can assure you this is definitely top quality content. Bloody brilliant watch mate!
Imagine being the Albanian farmer to look out of your farmhouse in the morning and discover a bald englishman running around shouting about bunkerising
Lol! It seems quite a bit safer than the Boliva expeditions! Care for some cocoa leaves? :)
I'd set the turkeys on him!
Get colonized
Absolute Mad Lad!
My friend is half albanian and half finnish. She is always talking about how good dad her albanian father is and how loving and respectfull he is to her mom even after 30 years of marriage. Her family also travels albania every year. I've heard so much good about the country and people, would be great travel there. Best wishes to albanians!
Come to Albania with your friend! You'll have the time of your life! Albania is insanely fun during summer times when Albanian emigrants turn back home to enjoy the summer holidays with their families.
@@liljanasufaj1643 hi thr
Albanian old men : chilling
Bald out of nowhere : so what's your opinion about hotza?
He should really learn the language and talk to Albanians. They are a very wise people but they don't open up easily.
@@futtbuckerson483 I don't think it's easy and worth to learn Albanian. His knowledge on russian helps him to travel through Russia , Ukraine, Belarus, three big countries but learning Albanian will only help you in Albania and you only have like very few places to visit overall.
@@billpolychronidis7805 Its always worth to learn a new language. Albanian is also spoken in other countries like Kosovo, macedonia, greece or montenegro. But yeah its a very difficult language
@@Aristocrat1307 maybe in Kosovo and North Macedonia but i don't think you will be using Albanian in Montenegro and Greece and there is literally nothing in Kosovo and North Macedonia worth visiting for
@@billpolychronidis7805 north Macedonia has amazing natural sites.
Plot twist: the bunkers are actually buried statues of Mr. Bald.
The 'Oh-Aye'
HAHAHAHA
Best comment ever 😂
I visited Albania a year ago. Can confirm that Fenster is right!
This episode should be subtitled “Bonkers for Bunkers”
Marcel Ophuls
Good one! ✅😂
@City17.76 👍
Haha, just had the same thought.
Bald and Bankrupt going bonkers for bunkers in the Balkans.
The man driving backwards has no Fier.
I've been to Albania twice, three weeks each time. It is an amazing country with history from early Greeks to Roman Empire to Ottoman Empire to Communism to Anarchy. I stood in the ancient ruins of Antigone, touch a human skull in a monastery carved in the face of a cliff, saw the sunset at the beach next to a giant concrete bunker.
Insane place, would always come back! Thank you Albanians for your hospitality!
Love how sometimes he talks to albanians in spanish for some reason.
Italia is pretty close to Albania. Some people do understand such words as Grasias, grazie etc.
@@n.b.380 and 'finito'
@@n.b.380 Albania is isolated language, there is no similar in Europe, they only have words borrowed from Italian.
many people especially of a certain age lived/worked in italy for a period, some old people probabiilly were taught italian because albania was part of italy for some yeard before ww2 also the italian tv was seen in albania in communist times.
@@n.b.380 whole world knows word Grasias..
Great to see you back. Good health to you 🍺
I just came from Wikipedia after reading about King Zog. I like him.
A muslim who was against the use of Hijab. :)
I just came back from the video, Bald says "Its not easy being gay" right? @09:07
I just came back from the video, is the river the bridge hangs over @29:30 a result of global warming? Because it looks dried up.
And no, global warming has nothing to do with us, its just how nature works. If you look up the past, there been several ice ages, a mini ice age like 400 years ago or something.
The globe shifts in temperature. Is normal.
Vipra Khalnayak your standard of evaluating leaders is fucked bro
@@nr1NPC Humans have a direct and indirect influence on Global Warming.
He reminds me of how huge the world still is. And how generally good people are.
"I don't speak Albanian yet, tomorrow" - Massive legend
imagine being a rural albanian farmer and then one random day bald rocks up to your house on a scooter
Best day ever lol
hahaha
Exactly!
@whitegirl333 was thinking the same thing.
They waited for the blonde prince on a white horse and then.... bald came on a white scooter. :D
You've got to love how pretty much every teenager speaks English.
Where is it not that way? In nearly every european country schools teach english
dave a lot of countries outside europe.
True! Stayed with a couple families while travelling round europe and the teenagers were always there to help translate
Same all over Europe now, especially Eastern Europe. I've been to over 20 European countries and had the same experience in all of then - most people under 30 or so can speak English. Some parts of Western Europe the age is higher (for example, in The Netherlands pretty much everyone except pensioners can speak English), but the general trend is that the younger they are the more likely they are to speak English. It's starting to happen in the Middle East as well, when I went to Beirut, everyone young could speak English - and it's the third language there, after Arabic and French.
I want a girl that looks at me the same way Bald looks at Albanian bunkers
Or Soviet bus stations. He gets orgasmic over those! :D
@@Backroad_Junkie anything that's soviet Bald will get an erection
He's making up for no more of Alina's bunkers.
Lol!
😂😂😂😂
Harald: luxury house boat in Amsterdam
Bald: BUNKERS in Albania
Harald doesnt even like exploring, just clout and luxury
@JOSEPH LONSDALE Both of these guys are AMAZIN. Idk what is up in between Herbert's bunns.
@@JD-lp5rw you have to be adventurous to swim in an amsterdam canal
@@JD-lp5rw u should watch their india videos ;)
You do realise that Bald And Bankrupt is a fake channel, he films it on a green screen. He has never been past the Watford gap. If he goes to the local shops he gets a nose bleed. If you are not English, then ask someone about the English sense of humour.
Wow I could never imagined you’d visit my city. I wish I could help you translating stories from those villages, they surely have some interesting things to say about communism.
Btw the barber man at 14:00 doesn’t say “shuaish” but “Eshte vape” meaning “It’s hot”
Also that girl from the family you visited was impressive with her understanding of the english. The people who can speak or understand english in albanian villages are very rare.
The man at 25:40 calls Enver Hoxha “maskara” that means “scoundrel”/“blackguard”.
Almost all the people you met hated Hoxha regime , even the oldest ones.
Enjoy your trip in Albania, you’ll find friendly and welcoming people like that family in every side of the country. Thanks for the promotion
I donk know why you used the word blackguard because scoundrel is more apporopriate and more understandable.
Svedii I wasn’t sure which word to use, I’m adding that, thank u
Thank you. Cheers
I want you as my tour guide 😜
Awesome!!
Yep. I lived in Albania for 2 years. Wonderful people, great food, and exotic places.
Amazes me how he heads to about any country where he doesn’t speak the language and ends up invited inside to someone’s home to drink a beer. The charisma and charm of this man !!!
It's just an albanian thing
I love how the youth can speak perfect English and translate questions for him. This world is amazing!!!!
I bet he can do that in every country so I'm not doubting his skills but just fyi if you are a foreigner you will get invited to an Albanian house regardless of who you are
"I got no map no internet no directions. PERFECT LETS GO BUNKER HUNTING!" This guys is something special.
I adore this man
That lovely lady trying her best to speak in english warms my heart
you mean the teenage girl?
Rental company: Where the hell did you take our scooter...? 🤣
He starts off wearing his helmet.
He has a beer, and he's wearing his helmet unbuckled.
He has a shot, and hes not wearing his helmet.
Don’t drink and drive
This is the way
Bruh, your profile pic... I miss playing aoe now
He’s becoming more and more Albanian every second
Age of empires 4 Eva
100 percent the best channel on youtube, the amount you learn off of 1 bald and bankrupt video is insane and the childish adventorism really shows how passionate he is about this, keep up the great content and ill definataly be grabbing a t shirt.
13:45
Mr. Bald: sweaty, hot
Albo village barber guy: vapë
Mr. Bald: shwash... shwash shwash
Also never seen someone so excited about seeing a bunch of identical bunkers. Mr. Bald's content never disappoints.
There are much more important and fascinating places than bunkers in this amazing country. Best wishes to our proud Albanian brothers. Much love and respect from Bulgaria! 🇧🇬🇦🇱
🇧🇬❤️🇦🇱
@Panter Panta
Oh god, I bet you are a Serb. 😓
Наздраве брат! Cheers!
Really nice people of Albania 🇦🇱🇭🇷
When Bald says I'll speak Albanian tomorrow, I genuinely believe him
😊😊😊😊😊
20:42
Owner: *talks in albanian*
Bald: GRACIAS SEÑOR
Well, most of Albianian can understand italian to a certain extend, surely it was more familiar to him than english
bo1bo1bo1unlosode gracias senor is spanish... not italian
Joris Nooren yeah, i know but that phrase is almost the same when spoken, i’m italian and i don’t have to study spanish to understand that “GRACIAS SEÑOR” is “GRAZIE SIGNORE” since spanish “CI” is pronounce almost like italian “ZI” and “Ñ” in italian is written as “GN”
Manchagojohnson Manchago, yeah it’s technically a narco state, I love albania, great country.
Tom Richardson I wont disagree with you about the cannabis and cocain But Albania is definitely way safer than Mexico and other European countries
Bald: Wears a helmet like a sensible person.
Bald after 1 beer: Wears a helmet without chin strap.
Bald after hard liquor: No helmet :D
In Albania it is forbidden to drive with more than 0.1 promille. But as my hotelier said: In Albania, rules are more like suggestions. 😅
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@Kati216 When drunk driving a scooter, steering with one hand, whitout a helmet, on bumpy albanian roads, while vlogging - the police would be the least of my worries
Also bald after hard liquor: crosses dodgy bridge giggling like a little schoolgirl
@@Kati216 it depends where you drive.
Where he was there are no cops to be found but in the citys i wouldnt do that😅.
Hey bald I just wanted to pass along a message from my co worker I live in America and I work in a. Warehouse I have the pleasure of knowing one of my coworkers who is a native to Albania her and her family fled the country a few years back but she is planning to return within these next few months to see family she told me how she loved her motherland and she misses it so ....then I remembered you made a video about Albania....so I showed her this video and she watched it start to end.....she started to cry and I was like o no I did something bad but she said no she was happy to see her homeland to see her pepole ...she is teaching me some albanian and she told me to tell you this......mr.bald my name is Ludmila you don't know me but thank you you brought me great happiness today and may your journeys be blessed.
Much love bald your the best forever a subscriber -manny
We have a saying in Albania, "U seen 3 bunkers, you've seen em all"
How much are there tho? Thousands ?
@@metalheadblues I believe there are around 173,000 bunkers in the country, with around 6 per square kilometer
@@metalheadblues the communists wanted to build 700.000
@@metalheadblues 700 thousands, each bunker was build to protect 3 people, so all population of Albania was supposed to be protected by bunkers. There are also a lot of underground bunkers
How can you not love this guy, like seriously he is the modern day adventurer, his travels are amazing. 👌
Damn, Albania has a fairly beautiful countryside. Untouched and serene, and the people are relaxed - not like in my city where everyone seems to have high blood pressure.
This area of Albania is one of the driest one. You should see the North, the East and centre of Albania. It is lush green and way prettier.
25:35 this guy straight up has half his finger up the nose. Absolute legend!
Bald: goes to Albania
Also bald: "gracias Señor"
lmao that was fuckin good
@@Dexusaz Latin brother! my spanish friend can talke to italians
(to be clear! In spanish and they answer in italian)
@@Dexusaz Spanish and Italian aren't that different in terms of basic words anyway, so if you don't know Italian you could use spanish to kind of send a message.
@@restlessgoose more than some, most of people I talked to (under the 20/30 years old) speak good italian. It was very helpful.
Mucho gusto 🤣
I love how you always find good people reminding us that people are intrinsically good.
yeah we R all instrinsically good.., we realize it when we mix with people with humility n openness.....
True, we need to have a belief that people are intrinsically good.
The internet has ruined us:)
You're terribly naive.
All it proves is that most people are nice over a cup of coffee.
@OGRedwood the parents not understanding much was honestly adorable lol
The bus is ready to go in a minute, once they fill up. Haha. Three hours later... Anyway welcome back to the Balkans Mr. Bald, it's a fascinating part of the world.
Gabe you are welcomme back
Hey Gabe what's up bro
@@gohardorgohome7687 Yo, not too much, how's it hangin'?
@@GabrielTravelerVideos Hey man! Love your Makarska video!
@@funkymoney3373 Right on, thanks.
Albanians are so friendly, almost everyone in this video is smiling and well-coming. God bless Albanians!
The live action commentary “I’m falling down the mountain” had me rolling
I read this comment exactly as it happened lol
Did it have you rolling down that same mountain?
Bald: drinks 90% alcohol then rides a motorbike one-handed offroad and on the dodgiest bridges without a helmet
well how would you do that without alcohol in your blood. need the confidence boost
Remember he is brittish
he had like one rakia and one beer, kids drink that much
I don't think the helmet would've done much with a fall from that bridge though...
That guy you met in the Village was clearly so happy to see somebody new. That's what I love about Bald, he lifts people's lives just by travelling, just like his mates in the Belarus Exclusion Zone.
I do not think he could speak
Jae & Tristan That’s Albanian tradition, whenever you see someone who isn’t from your village you invite them into your home and have a drink or eat
@@zaxarispetixos8728 Seeing Bald he became speechless
Albania doesn't look as poor as I was led to believe
Same it looks quite nice
Good to see you back and healthy (from a fellow Brightonian).
I visited Albania a few years back, although I stayed in Tirana. When you visited the family, I wasn't surprised that the daughter translated for you. My experience was that most people under 30 and nearly everyone under 20 could speak English, but not many older people. I had kids coming to talk to me to practice their English all over the place. My experience with Albanians was that they are very friendly people.
From Tirana, you can catch a cable car into the mountains, it takes about 15 minutes and goes very high up (it goes over mountains and valleys). The point it drops you off is great for exploring, loads of bunkers and I also went inside an abandoned hotel that still had Christmas decorations up (it was November when I went) and there's a huge abandoned building that used to be a residential learning center for schools in communist times. Exploring all the mountains paths there is a lot to find (the actual hotel and revolving restaurant that most tourists use it for is average, although the views are good from the restaurant).
As for the alcohol, Albanian rakia is a killer, I brought a bottle back to Cyprus and destroyed a few friends with it on New Years' Eve!
Aw nice! You are welcome to come again :)
After communism english became obligatory in Albania.
No map, no internet, no idea where to go with a scooter: living the life.
Google maps street view is available in Albania...
Or maybe that's what he wants us to think!
Bald: is in Albania
Also Bald: Randomly speaks Spanish throughout his trip
Because a lot of people speak Italian there, and even if you don't speak Spanish you can easily understand each other without knowing the language
Facts I'm Italian and whenhere Spanish seems like for example North English accent vs a Cambridge accent
@@ramseshk and Russian, because it was communist? Like English in most Western Europe countries?
@@lucasmazzoli4426 not really, I'm native spanish speaker and italian is really different, maybe some words in their basic form are similar but I doubt we could understand each other if we were to speak at normal speed.
Liam Paisley I speak Russian, English and some Spanish, I noticed when I'm trying to speak some basic words in other languages and not very focused I say some things in Spanish automatically, it's like my mind is bilingual and can't process all other languages smoothly unless really focused, so you can say things like muchos gracias all the time in Greece, Germany etc. lol
Socializing with the locals - your vids always reassure me of the nice majority of humans, that's why i love you Bald!
Albanian so friendly and hospitable , can invite a stranger to his house for a beer, what a lovely people
@Trz everywhere, even in europe and the US, it just depends how likely you are to stumble upon such people, but there are hospitable people everywhere espeically on the countryside
Shame that their United Kingdom's diaspora isn't like that. Albanians here in London have very bad reputation.
@@boutek they also have bad reputation in albania
@Trz nah americans are like that too just ask any tourists
@@boutek becouse only criminals from the balkans go to western europe or desperate iliterate people, with a very few exeptions
Albania should convert those old bunkers into the greatest national system of outdoor pizza ovens in the world!
A lot of them are for grow weed their national export product
Holy shit that's genius
Its big brain time
Italy has entered the chat
Hooot damn, you have potential man. No wonder you are a doctor!
Non of us knew we needed Bald until he showed up in our recommendations one day, never looked back 👍🏼
most definitely my friend
So true!!!!!
Funny - „Fischwenger“ is a bus company in a town next to me in Austria - I assume this bus was sold and the branding wasn’t removed...😀
This episode really has a little of everything, insane
Nothing makes you feel more alive than getting lost in a foreign land.
Nothing beats that adrenaline rush
"Easy! Easy!"
dude is literally driving one handed on a bike on a rickety metal bridge in Albania and he taunts fate
bro we missed you
Love to all Albanians. Had the chance to meet some of you in Greece but had no idea you are so friendly and open hearted !
It really touched my heart when the gentleman with the white hair was so friendly and wanted to hug you! And I just love the wooden ceilings in the buildings. Thank you for taking us with you on your Journeys!
This albanian family was so nice. Omg
That’s the bridge our parents used to cross to get to school
🤣 I thought only Albanian parents told this story lol
Ilil ar. It's all over the world joke 😅
my parents rode a bicycle with square wheels to school
Loool
My parents walked up hill both ways.
Albania is beautiful 💪💪❤️❤️🤞🤞. Greetings from Poland 🤭🤭
11:52 that hit hard. After so many years of me wishing you visit my country, I can't explain how happy I was to see your Instagram stories from Vlore. Thank you for visiting Albania, we don't have radioactive forests and you won't get a haircut in the road but we sure have a great history and many landmarks for you to visit. I hope you come back!
Bald is literally my history teacher nowadays. God I love this channel. 🙌
"COVID crazed Brit runs rampant in Albanian countryside"
lol
🤣
I've been to Albania. Nice country and good, warm people!
Hello from Greece.
It’s so good to see you back and healthy, Ben!!
"He's driving all the way to Fier. Backwards".
Bald: *doesn't speak the language*
Bald: *proceeds to speak in spanish at random times*
They dont understand English anyway speaking to them in Spanish doesnt make a difference
@@Ida-xe8pg many speak Italian, so Spanish is not a bad bet.
@Monique Janssen ..... wha.. what
@@BlueSky-eg5lc obviously a troll or some conspiracy theory believer just ignore
when he said mucha gusta to the old men hahahahahaha
thumbs up for Albania the people offering a cold beer
To a stranger =)
🍺
You can drive after one beer.
What wonderful people. Restores faith in the World, that there are many nice people out there. The chap hugging you, not a word said. The farmer inviting you in for a beer. Even the Turkeys gave you a warm send off. Yet again shows, those with little have the most love and friendship to give. Something many of us can learn from. Seeing you on that bridge alone with no-one around made me think of Kolya. I hope he is ok.
Actually brother I think the guy who hugged Bald is deaf dumb anyway he was the only one to fully understand balds body language. Its amazing these people are masters at reading body language notice how everyone else didnt understand anything bald was trying to say even tho they can speak and hear.
He really warmed my heart man only smiling at him hugging him
may God bless him what a beautiful human being
@@b.m2829 you may very well be right. was heart warming that a complete stranger can sense Mr Bald is a nice guy and hug him like that. Such a simple thing but means so much. I think even Ben was really touched by that gesture.
@erberen shamu lovely thing to do. To live with simple morals. treat people nice and they treat you nice in return. Look at the love Koyla and the other family showed Ben, and now he goes back a couple of times a year and shares that love back and shares it with us watching too. We can learn a lot through those simple actions of simply being nice.
@erberen shamu if you think that living to the morals of being nice to each other is reductionist then your not doing it right. When someone pays your people a compliment your supposed to be happy about that. Clearly you dont live to the same morals as your own people. Not a single person in this video did anything complicated. They showed friendship and politeness, just as Ben shows to everyone he meets. That really inst complicated at all.
@erberen shamu I don't know why you had to take that as an insult. I googled the canon and it seems like an intriguing piece of history and culture, but its main bullet points on wikipedia are "Honor, Hospitality, Right Conduct, and Kin Loyalty." It seems not only easy to understand, but only able to be followed by people with good common sense.
I lived in Albania 10 years ago. And I am dreaming of going back. Wonderful people and the best food I ever experienced.
Faleminderit popull shqiptar.
Ska përse zotëri. Je gjithmonë i mikëpritur ne Shqipëri.
You are always welcome in albania, we can’t wait to have you back. 🤗
Danke Dirk! Du bist immer in Albanien WILLKOMEN!
You are more than welcome to come back.
Every one is welcome in albania and will feel a great sense of hospitality, we may be poor but we have a great heart (especially for foreigners)
Thats true, in Albania i have wonderfull moments, the people are open, i love Albania (from Poland)
When I was little boy, I thought, that Albania is my home country. Because they have same eagle as Russia. And I'm Russian... I was retarded
kie Are u american? Jk
@kie i used to think steve Guttenberg and tom hanks were the same person
When I was on the plane travelling back to Canada, after visiting Albania there I saw an old Russian guy on the plane who kind of looked Albanian. His passport also had an eagle on it but I missed the part where it said Russia I started to talk to him and he started to speak Russian and I felt like an idiot after.
No you are not🇦🇱❤️🇷🇺🤗
You said "was".... 😂😉
balkan hospitality never disappoints
"He's driving to Fier backwards, wow".
First time in Albania i see...
Maybe it was just a temporal pincer movement.
@@papieskimegatron no we do it always that way in Balkan.
Imagine the look on the paranoid Enver Hoxha’s face if he saw that the famous British spy bald and bankrupt was scouting and lurking around the hills of his country 😉😂
I love the smiley face artwork on some of his bunkers.
He’d be locked up and tortured in a heartbeat 🤣🤣
Goes to Albania and starts speaking Spanish
Because Italian and Spanish are similar, and many Albanians speak Italian
He spoke italian not spanish.
@@srirachanoodles6914 no they aren't similiar they are distantly related dude to all of them being indo european languages but they can't be considered as closely related. Italian and spanish are of course romance languages but albanian belongs to respectively is a distinct language family or, as defined by some, branch within the indo european language family.
BULLETSTEAK yeah I know that.
They are very distantly related.
All languages are distantly related.
But albanian is very far from most european languages, it doesn’t sound anything like it.
I’m speaking about language families too.
so many english people say (sometimes random) spanish words when in foreign countries (not talking about the ones that actually speak spanish).
they think it’s funny
The home that shared beer with you is such an amazing family, life in Albania seems perfect in general.
Very poor but happy it seems
It is not , it only seems that way.